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The United Nations was founded on _____           October 24, 1945         March 24, 1949         October 24, 1950

1. Note : The U.N. began with 51 countries and is now comprised of 193 Member States. The United Nations has four main goals. The U.N.’s first purpose is to keep peace throughout the world.The second goal is to develop friendly relations.The third purpose is to assist nations in encouraging human rights, helping the poor, and improving hunger, disease and literacy.The fourth goal is to operate as a center—a community—for achieving these goals. The headquarters of the United Nations is in Manhattan, New York City,The United Nations Charter was drafted at a conference in April–June 1945; this charter took effect 24 October 1945, and the UN began operation. The UN has six principal organs: the General Assembly (the main deliberative assembly); the Security Council (for deciding certain resolutions for peace and security); the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) (for promoting international economic and social co-operation and development); the Secretariat (for providing studies, information, and facilities needed by the UN); the International Court of Justice (the primary judicial organ); and the United Nations Trusteeship Council (inactive since 1994). UN System agencies include the World Bank Group, the World Health Organization, the World Food Programme, UNESCO, and UNICEF. 


1. Which country from the following is NOT the member of UNO?
1. Vatican City
2. Afghanistan
3. North Korea
4. Vietnam 
   
   NOTE : Vatican city is the smallest country of the world covers just over 100 acres,Vatican City - Because of its tiny population and unique status, the Vatican City is a permanent observer state, but not a full member. The independent papal state of 771 people (including the Pope) was created in 1929. They have not chosen to become part of the international organization. According to the Vatican  website, its special position as a permanent observer arises by its own choice on the grounds that, although it fills the criteria of statehood required for membership, it wishes to remain neutral in political affairs. 


2. The International Court of Justice is located in _________.
1. New York
2. Washington
3. Geneva
4. The Hague
   
   NOTE :  The ICJ was established in 1946 by the United Nations. The Statute of the ICJ, containing 70 Articles, is the main document constituting and regulating the Court’s organization, competence, procedure, advisory opinions, and amendments to the Statute.The ICJ is comprised of 15 Judges versed in International Law who serve for nine years and who are elected by the United Nations General Assembly. Nominations are made on a geographical basis to ensure global representation.Current serving Judges come from the following countries: The United Kingdom, Jordan, China, Somalia, Sierra Leone, Brazil, United States, Japan, Germany, Slovakia, France, New Zealand, Mexico, Morocco, Russia.There is a geographical distribution of seats which allocate two to Asia, three to Africa, two to Latin America and the Caribbean, five to Western Europe and other countries, and two to Eastern Europe. The Statute of the ICJ provides for ad hoc Judges to be appointed to sit on contentious cases before the Court, one each for the disputing parties. The Court has judged 140 cases, 33 of which involved territorial disputes three of which are pending.
   The Court relies on the following sources of law and on precedents: International conventions (Treaties)
   • Customary international law
   • The general principles of law recognized by civilized nations
   • Judicial decisions and the teachings of the most highly qualified publicists of the various nations as
   subsidiary means for the determination of rules of law
   Observation: “Territorial claims before the ICJ usually fall within one of the above four categories. Treaty
   claims are easiest to assert, because the existence of a treaty is easier to prove than the existence of
   customary international law”.
   It is the duty of all UN Members to comply with decisions of the Court involving them. If parties do not comply, the issue can be taken for action to the supreme body of the United Nations organization, the United.
   
   The Statute of the International Court of Justice is an integral part of the United Nations Charter, as specified by Chapter XIV of the United Nations Charter, which established the International Court of Justice. The statute's chapters are:
   • Chapter I: Organization of the Court (Articles 2 - 33)
   • Chapter II: Competence of the Court (Articles 34 - 38)
   • Chapter III: Procedure (Articles 39 - 64)
   • Chapter IV: Advisory Opinions (Articles 65 - 68)
   • Chapter V: Amendment (Articles 69 & 70)
   Under Article 38.2, the court is allowed to decide a case ex aequo et bono if the parties agree thereto.


3. The Great Wall of China is about __________ KM long.
1. 18,196
2. 19,196
3. 20,196
4. 21,196
   
   NOTE: As early as the Qin Dynasty (221-207BC) when building the Great Wall. Especially famous is the wall built 220–206 BCE by Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China. Little of that wall remains. Since then, the Great Wall has on and off been rebuilt, maintained, and enhanced; the majority of the existing wall is from the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644). The official length is 21,196.18 km (13,170.7 mi)
   The Great Wall of China has been called the longest cemetery on Earth. Over a million people died building the Wall and archaeologists have found human remains buried under parts of the wall.During the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), many bricks of the Great Wall were taken away to use in building homes, farms or reservoirs. Otherwise many sections of the Great Wall would be preserved much better than what they are like today.The Ming Great Wall crosses 9 provinces and municipalities: Liaoning, Hebei, Tianjin, Beijing, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Ningxia, Gansu. Badaling is the most visited section (63,000,000 visitors in 2001). And in the first week of May and October, the visitor flow can be up to 70,000 per day.Nearly 1/3 of the Great Wall has disappeared without trace. Great Wall reconstruction and protection began with Badaling in 1957.  


4. The oldest university in the world is
1. Cambridge University
2. Oxford University
3. University of Bologna
4. University of Warwick
   
   NOTE: The oldest existing, and continually operating educational institution in the world is the University of Karueein, founded in 859 AD in Fez, Morocco. The University of Bologna, Italy, was founded in 1088 and is the oldest one in Europe. The 33 departments and 11 Schools are under this University of Bologna.


5. There are _________ non-permanent members of the security council.
1. 5
2. 7
3. 10
4. 15
   
   NOTE : The Council is composed of 15 Members: five permanent members: China, France, Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and ten non-permanent members elected for two-year terms by the General Assembly (with end of term date):


6. The currency of Indonesia is _________.
1. rupiah
2. dinar
3. rangit
4. riyal
   
   NOTE: Indonesian rupiya is the currency of Indonesia.


7. The D-8 is an organization of eight ________ countries.
1. developed
2. developing
3. Asian
4. African
   
   NOTE: The D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation, also known as Developing-8, is an organization for development cooperation among the followingcountries: Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Turkey. The idea of cooperation among major Muslim developing countries was mooted by Dr. Necmettin Erbakan, the then Prime Minister of Turkey, during a Seminar on "Cooperation in Development" which was held in Istanbul in October 1996 and was finally formed in Summit of June 15, 1997.In the first Summit Declaration (Istanbul, 1997), the main objective of D-8 is stated to be socio-economic development in accordance with following principles:
   • Peace instead of conflict.
   • Dialogue instead of confrontation.
   • Cooperation instead of exploitation.
   • Justice instead of double-standard.
   • Equality instead of discrimination.
   • Democracy instead of oppression.
     The Developing 8 is organized into three bodies:
     • The Summit
     • The Council
     • The Commission
     The Summit, which is convened every two years, has the highest level of authority, and is composed of the leaders of each member state.
     The Council is the principal decision-making body and forum for consideration of issues relating to the D-8, and is composed of the foreign affairs ministers of each member state.
     The Commission has executive authority, and is composed of Commissioners appointed by each member state's government. Commissioners are responsible for promoting compliance with D8 directives in their respective nation. Finally, an executive director is appointed by D-8 members to facilitate communication and to act in a supervisory capacity during each summit or lower-level assembly.


8. The European Union's working capital is in _________.
1. London
2. Lisbon
3. Austria
4. Brussels
   
   NOTE: The European Union (EU) is a politico-economic union of 28 member states that are located primarily in Europe. It has an area of 4,324,782 km² (1,669,808 sq mi), and an estimated population of over 510 million. The EU has developed an internal single market through a standardised system of laws that apply in all member states. EU policies aim to ensure the free movement of people, goods, services, and capital within the internal market, enact legislation in justice and home affairs, and maintain common policies on trade, agriculture fisheries, and regional development. Within the Schengen Area, passport controls have been abolished. A monetary union was established in 1999 and came into full force in 2002, and is composed of 19 EU member states which use the euro currency. The seven principal decision-making bodies—known as the institutions of the European Union—are the European Council, the Council of the European Union, the European Parliament, the European Commission, the Court of Justice of the European Union, the European Central Bank, and the European Court of Auditors.
   there are 24 official languages of EU.
   president of the EU is Donald Tusk.
   Capital is Brussells.
   In 1957, Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and West Germany signed the Treaty of Rome, which created the European Economic Community (EEC) and established a customs union. They also signed another pact creating the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) for co-operation in developing nuclear energy. Both treaties came into force in 1958The Maastricht Treaty (formally, the Treaty on European Union or TEU) undertaken to integrate Europe was signed on 7 February 1992 by the members of the European Community in Maastricht, Netherlands. On 9–10 December 1991, the same city hosted the European Council which drafted the treaty Upon its entry into force on 1 November 1993 during the Delors Commission it created the European Union and led to the creation of the single European currency, the euro. 


9. The headquarter of NATO is located in _________.
1. New York
2. Paris
3. Geneva
4. Brussels
   
   NOTE : NATO —the North Atlantic Treaty Organization—was originally created by representatives of twelve Western powers: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, theNetherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States, in which was signed on 4 April 1949., as a military security alliance to deter the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics' (USSR) expansion on the European Continent. From 1945 to 1949, to widen the Communist sphere of influence, the USSR had annexed Czechoslovakia, East Prussia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, and sections of Finland, and had penetrated into the governments of Albania, Bulgaria, and Hungary. The foundation for NATO had been set in Brussels, Belgium, in March 1948, when representatives of Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. In June 1948, after a losing battle by isolationists, the U.S. Congress adopted a resolution recommending that the United States join in a defensive pact for the North Atlantic area. President Harry S. Truman urged U.S. participation in NATO as a critical part of his policy of containment of Soviet expansion. Containment had begun with the Truman Doctrine of 1947 with military assistance to Greece and Turkey to resist Communist subversion. The North Atlantic Treaty was signed on 4 April 1949 in Washington, D.C. It formally committed the European signatories and the United States and Canada to the defense of Western Europe. Greece and Turkey joined NATO in 1952
   Article 5 of the North Atlantic treaty, requiring member states to come to the aid of any member state subject to an armed attack, was invoked for the first and only time after the September 11 attacks,after which troops were deployed to Afghanistan under the NATO-led ISAF.
   Current HQ is in Brussels
   Official language is English and French
    Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
10.  The next Sec. General of UN likely to hold the seat from 1 january, 2017 is _________

answer is António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres, GCL GCC is a Portuguese politician and diplomat who is the Secretary-General-designate of the United Nations.Guterres was Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002, as leader of the Socialist Party.



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