world organisations section 1 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

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.

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: (b)

The Secretary-General of the United Nations, abbreviated UNSYG, is the head of the United Nations Secretariat, one of the principal organs of the United Nations.

The Secretary-General also acts as the de facto spokesperson and leader of the United Nations. None so far has held office for more than two terms.

The United Nations Charter provides for the Secretary-General to be appointed by the General Assembly upon the recommendation of the Security Council.

As a result, the selection is subject to the veto of any of the five permanent members of the Security Council. While the appointment and approval process of the Secretary-General is outlined in the UN Charter, specific guidelines have emerged regarding the term limits and selection process.

Answer: (d)

António Guterres, the ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations, took office on 1st January 2017.

Having witnessed the suffering of the most vulnerable people on earth, in refugee camps and in war zones, the Secretary-General is determined to make human dignity the core of his work and to serve as a peace broker, a bridge-builder and a promoter of reform and innovation.

Note: António Guterres, is a Portuguese politician and diplomat who is serving as the ninth SecretaryGeneral of the United Nations.

Previously, he was the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015.