Discussion
Select from the following statements the main theme of the 1971 UN Declaration on Indian Ocean as a Zone of Peace. Use the codes :
(i) To eliminate the regional and extra regional power presence
(ii) To eliminate the great power presence in the context of great power rivalry
(iii) To make the region a Zone of Peace
(iv) To declare the region as a Nuclear Weapon Free Zone.
Codes :
Answer: B
The keyed main theme is (ii) and (iii) only.
The UN General Assembly's Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a Zone of Peace (Resolution 2832, 1971), sponsored by Sri Lanka, declared the Indian Ocean a zone of peace and called on the great powers to halt the escalation and expansion of their military presence there, conceived in the context of great power rivalry, and to remove their bases.
It did not seek to eliminate the presence of the regional states themselves, so (i) is wrong, and it did not declare the ocean a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the formal sense, so the codes including (iv) go beyond the Declaration's central theme.
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