world organisations section 3 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (b)

The headquarters of the World Health Organisation are situated at Geneva.

Regional Offices: Alexandria, Brazzaville, Copenhagen, Manila, New Delhi and Washington.

Answer: (c)

The IMF works to foster global growth and economic stability. It provides policy advice and financing to members in economic difficulties and also works with developing nations to help them achieve macroeconomic stability and reduce poverty.

Its two primary functions were: to oversee the fixed exchange rate arrangements between countries, thus helping national governments manage their exchange rates and allowing these governments to prioritize economic growth, and to provide short-term capital to aid balance-of-payments.

Answer: (b)

Ban Ki-Moon is a native of South Korea. He is the Secretary-General of the United Nations since 2007.

Note: As of 2017, the Secretary-General is António Guterres and he is a Portuguese politician and diplomat who is serving as the ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations.

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

Answer: (c)

The UNESCO Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science is an international distinction created by UNESCO in 1951 following a donation from Mr Bijoyanand Patnaik, Founder and President of the Kalinga Foundation Trust in India. In 2010, Gokulananda Mohapatra of India received this prize.

Answer: (d)

Supachai Panitchpakdi is the Secretary-General of the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Prior to this, he was the Director-General of the World Trade Organization from September 1, 2002, to September 1, 2005.

He was succeeded by Pascal Lamy. In September 1999 he was elected to become Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), sharing the post with competitor Mike Moore when a decision could not be reached. Taking the second half of the six-year term, he entered office on September 1, 2002.

In March 2005 he was appointed to become the Secretary-General of the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) following his term at the WTO, a post he took up in late 2005.

Note: The current Director-General of WTO is Roberto Azevedo of Brazil, since 1 September 2013. Headquarters of WTO: Geneva, Switzerland.

Answer: (a)

The five permanent members in the United Nations Security Council are China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America.