world organisations section 3 Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions & More Shortcuts

Answer: (c)

The main watchdog of International Trade is World Trade Oragnisation (WTO). WTO is a permanent international trade body which replaced the General Agreement on Tariff and Trade (GATT) on January 1, 1995. Its headquarters is in Geneva. WTO administers trade agreements through various councils and committees.

Answer: (d)

UNESCO mobilises for education so that every child, boy or girl, has access to quality education as a fundamental human right and as a prerequisite for human development. UNESCO has created the idea of World Heritage to protect sites of outstanding universal value.

Answer: (d)

The International Criminal Police Organization (ICPO), widely known as INTERPOL, is an intergovernmental organization facilitating international police cooperation.

It was established as the International Criminal Police Commission (ICPC) in 1923 and adopted its telegraphic address as its common name in 1956.

Its headquarters is located in 200, Quai Charles de Gaulle, Lyon which is a city in east-central France in the Rhône-Alpes region, situated between Paris and Marseille.

Answer: (d)

The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries for capital programs. It is one of four institutions created at the Bretton Woods Conference in 1944.

Both the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are headquartered in Washington D.C.

Answer: (d)

The first SAARC summit was held in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in December 1985.

It was attended by the Government representative and president of Bangladesh, Maldives, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, the kings of Bhutan and Nepal, and the prime minister of India.

They signed the SAARC Charter on 8 December 1985, thereby establishing the regional association.