World Organisations — Part 2 MCQs with Explanations

The International Atomic Energy Agency Secretariat is headquartered at the Vienna International Centre in Vienna, Austria.

The headquarters of the International Red Cross is situated in Geneva.

The new government of Islamic Republic of Iran withdrew the country from CENTO.

In 1977, Atal Bihari Vajpayee became the first person to deliver a speech to the UN General Assembly in Hindi. He was the Indian External Affairs Minster at the time.

SAARC was founded on 8 December 1985, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Pakistan is not a member of G-15.

Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization with its headquarters in the United Kingdom (London) focused on human rights.

Headquarters of the World Health Organisation is located at Geneva, Switzerland.

The six official languages of UNESCO are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.

The main bodies of the United Nations are the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Economic and Social Council, the Trusteeship Council, the International Court of Justice, and the UN Secretariat.

The Group of Seven (G-7) consists of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States.

INTERPOL means International Criminal Police Organisation.

The United Nations is headquartered in New York City in a complex designed by a board of architects led by Wallace Harrison and built by the architectural firm Harrison & Abramovitz.

The SAARC was founded in Dhaka on 8 December 1985. Its secretariat is based in Kathmandu, Nepal. The organization promotes development of economic and regional integration. It launched the South Asian Free Trade Area in 2006.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is a UN agency mandated to aid and protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities, and stateless people, and to assist in their voluntary repatriation, local integration or resettlement to a third country. It is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, with over 17300 staff working in 135 countries.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. NATO was the first peacetime military alliance the United States entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere.

The International Labour Organisation is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.

The UNO was founded on 24 October 1945, San Francisco, California, United States.

Trygve Lie, in full Trygve Halvdan Lie was a Norwegian politician and diplomat, the first secretary of the United Nations (1946–52), who resigned largely because of the Soviet Union's resentment of his support of UN military intervention in the Korean War.

The NAM summit which demanded expansion of the United Nations Security council had met at Jakarta.

The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is the regional intergovernmental organization and geopolitical union of nations in South Asia. Its members include Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Maldives, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

The 1992 United Nations Security Council election was held on 27 October 1992 during the Forty - seventh session of the United Nations General Assembly, held at United Nations Headquarters in New York City.

Russia is not a member of G-7.

International Committee of the Red Cross is not an agency of UN.

The G-15, a group of 17 developing countries from Asia, Africa and Latin America, was set up to foster cooperation and provide input for other international groups, such as the World Trade Organization and the Group of Seven rich industrialized nations. The G-15 focuses on cooperation among developing countries in the areas of investment, trade, and technology. The membership of the G-15 has expanded to 18 countries, but the name has remained unchanged.

Indian Red Cross Society (IRCS) was established in 1920 under the Indian Red Cross Society Act. The act was last amended in 1992 and of rules were formed in 1994.

SAARC was founded in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

The Trusteeship Council suspended its operations on 1 November 1994, a month after the independence of Palau, the last remaining United Nations trust territory.

The member countries of NAFTA are USA, Canada and Mexico.

In 1953, the chief delegate of India at the time, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit was elected the first woman President of the UN General Assembly.

The General Assembly adopted "Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States" on 12 December 1974.

All 193 Member States of the UN are represented in the General Assembly, making it the only UN body with universal representation.

The headquarters of the International Tropical Timber Organization is located in Yokohama, Japan.

On 31 October 2011, following the admission of Palestine to UNESCO, the Minister of Health Fathi Abu Moghli announced that the PLO would also seek membership at the World Health Organization.

The headquarters of Food and Agriculture Organisation is in Rome, Italy.

15 th Pravasi Bhartiya Diwas in January 2019 was held in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh.

The Doha Development Round or Doha Development Agenda (DDA) is the trade​ negotiation round of the World Trade Organization (WTO).

The International Bureau of Education is a UNESCO category 1 institute mandated as the Centre of Excellence in curriculum and related matters.

The headquarters of the Universal Postal Union is in Bern, Switzerland.

The Seventh Summit of the BRICS was held from 9 - 10 July 2015, in Ufa, the Russian Federation.