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Answer: (b)

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN).

Its purpose is to contribute peace and security by promoting international collaboration through education, science, and culture in order to further universal respect for justice, the rule of law, and human rights along with fundamental freedom proclaimed in the UN Charter.

Answer: (b)

There are 15 members of the Security Council. There are also 10 non-permanent members, with five elected each year to serve two-year terms. This basic structure is set out in Chapter V of the UN Charter.

The current non-permanent members are Colombia, India, Germany, Portugal, South Africa, Azerbaijan, Guatemala, Morocco, Pakistan, and Togo.

Answer: (c)

The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an organization that intends to supervise and liberalize international trade. The organization officially commenced on January 1, 1995, under the Marrakech Agreement, replacing the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which commenced in 1948.

The organization deals with the regulation of trade between participating countries; it provides a framework for negotiating and formalizing trade agreements, and a dispute resolution process aimed at enforcing participants’ adherence to WTO agreements which are signed by representatives of member governments and ratified by their parliaments.

Most of the issues that the WTO focuses on derive from previous trade negotiations, especially from the Uruguay Round

Answer: (c)

Zia-ul-Rehman, the former President of Bangladesh, was the chief architect of SAARC. It was he who first proposed a trade bloc in the South Asian region.

Answer: (c)

The United Nations Organization was established on 24 October 1945, to promote international cooperation. A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, it was created following the Second World War to prevent another such conflict.

At its founding, the UN had 51 member states; the number has now increased to 193.