MCQ Test: International & National organizations- 2 - Bank Exams MCQ

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (18 August 1900 – 1 December 1990) was an Indian diplomat and politician. She was the first Indian and the first woman to be elected as the President of the United Nations General Assembly in 1953.

The permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (also known as the Permanent Five, Big Five, or P5) are the five sovereign states to whom the UN Charter of 1945 grants a permanent seat on the UN Security Council: China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

• Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. (ONGC) has become the first Exploration and Production (E&P) company in India to trade domestic gas on Indian Gas Exchange.
• The gas traded is from ONGC Krishna Godavari 98/2 block.
• The quantity sold by ONGC through the Gas Exchange will be enhanced slowly.

The headquarters of World Trade Organisation (WTO) is located at Geneva, Switzerland.

UNESCO: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

Established in 1947 with its headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand, The Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific (ESCAP) serves as the highest intergovernmental regional platform to promote cooperation among member States for creating a more interconnected region working to achieve inclusive and sustainable economic and social development.

The International Court of Justice, also known as the World Court, is the main judicial organ of the UN. It was established in June 1945 by the Charter of the United Nations and began work in April 1946. The seat of the Court is at the Peace Palace in The Hague (Netherlands).

Amnesty International is an international non-governmental organization with its headquarters in the United Kingdom focused on human rights.

The headquarters of the International Red Cross is situated in Geneva.

In 1977, Atal Bihari Vajpayee became the first person to deliver a speech to the UN General Assembly in Hindi. He was the Indian External Affairs Minister at the time.

Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization with its headquarters in the United Kingdom (London) focused on human rights.

The working languages of UNESCO are English and French.

The main bodies of the United Nations are the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Economic and Social Council, the Trusteeship Council, the International Court of Justice, and the UN Secretariat.

The United Nations is headquartered in New York City in a complex designed by a board of architects led by Wallace Harrison and built by the architectural firm Harrison & Abramovitz.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is a UN agency mandated to aid and protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities, and stateless people, and to assist in their voluntary repatriation, local integration or resettlement to a third country. It is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, with over 17300 staff working in 135 countries.

The International Labour Organisation is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.

Trygve Lie, in full Trygve Halvdan Lie was a Norwegian politician and diplomat, the first secretary of the United Nations (1946–52), who resigned largely because of the Soviet Union's resentment of his support of UN military intervention in the Korean War.

The NAM summit which demanded expansion of the United Nations Security council had met at Jakarta.

The first-ever Security Council Summit meeting was held in New York in January 1992. It focused on the challenges to global peace and security in the post-Cold War era.

The G-15 is a group of 18 developing countries from Asia, Africa, and Latin America that focuses on fostering cooperation among developing nations in investment, trade, and technology.