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Answer: (c)

India was a founding member of the United Nations, joining in October 1945, two years before acquiring independence from the United Kingdom.

In 1953, the chief delegate of India at the time, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit was elected the first woman President of the UN General Assembly. India has been elected seven times to the UN Security Council. 

Only three countries have served longer than that (Japan, Brazil, and Argentina), except for the Permanent Five, and Colombia has served the same amount of time.

India is a charter member of the United Nations and participates in all of its specialized agencies. It has contributed troops to United Nations peacekeeping efforts in Korea, Egypt and the Congo in earlier years and in Somalia, Angola and Rwanda in recent years, and more recently Haiti.

India has been a member of the UN Security Council for six terms (a total of 12 years) and is a current member for 2011-12.

Answer: (a)

There are six official languages of the UN: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish. These languages are used at meetings of various UN organs, particularly the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council, and the Security Council.

Answer: (a)

The headquarters of the International Labour Organization is located at Geneva, Switzerland. The ILO organizes the International Labour Conference in Geneva every year in June, where conventions and recommendations are crafted and adopted.

Answer: (b)

The first Secretary General of the United Nations was Trygve Halvdan Lie of Norway from 1946 to 1953.

Answer: (d)

Woodrow Wilson quipped, “A living thing is born” after the League Covenant was drafted in 1919. The League was an intergovernmental organisation founded on 10 January 1920 as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War.