Global Security Concerns Questions and Answers

Q: Which of the following pairs is incorrect ?

The incorrect pair is G-15 Nations - Security Council Members.The Group of Fifteen is a forum of developing countries from Asia, Africa and Latin America, formed at the Non-Aligned summit at Belgrade in 1989 to promote South-South cooperation. India is a founder member. It has nothing to do with membership of the UN Security Council, which has 15 members of its own, the source of the confusion.The other pairs are correct: the G-8 was the group of major developed industrial nations, the G-77 is the UN coalition of developing nations, and ASEAN is the Association of South East Asian Nations.

Q: The NGO dedicated to the release of political prisoners all over the world is known as :

The NGO is Amnesty International.Amnesty was founded in London in 1961 after the lawyer Peter Benenson's newspaper appeal for 'prisoners of conscience', people jailed for their beliefs who had not used or advocated violence. Campaigning for their release, and against torture and the death penalty, became its core work, and it received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977.The Red Cross helps victims of war and disaster and visits detainees, but it works confidentially and does not campaign for prisoners' release. The Human Rights Council is an intergovernmental UN body, not an NGO.

Q: When did the UN Millennium Development Goals end ?

The Millennium Development Goals ended in 2015.The eight MDGs came out of the UN Millennium Declaration of 2000 and set targets on poverty, hunger, education, gender, child and maternal health, disease and the environment, to be reached by 2015. They were succeeded by the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, adopted in September 2015 for the period to 2030.2014 is a year too early, and 2016 is the year the SDGs took effect, not the end of the MDGs. 2017 has no link with either.

Q: UNSC Counter-Terrorism Committee is assisted by CTED. What does CTED stand for ?

CTED stands for the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate.The Security Council set up the Counter-Terrorism Committee by Resolution 1373 after the attacks of 11 September 2001, to monitor how states implement their counter-terrorism obligations. In 2004, Resolution 1535 created the Executive Directorate as its expert body, to carry out country assessments and support the Committee's work.The other expansions each drop or alter a word: the Directorate belongs to the Committee, not to a 'Council of Counter-Terrorism', and there is no separate 'Counter-Terrorism and Executive Directorate'.

Q: The outer limits of the legal continental shelf cannot exceed 350 Nautical miles from the territorial sea baselines or 100 Nautical miles beyond the ................. isobath.

The isobath is 2500 meters.Under Article 76 of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, a coastal state's continental shelf may extend beyond 200 nautical miles where the continental margin does. Its outer limit must not exceed either 350 nautical miles from the baselines or 100 nautical miles beyond the 2,500 metre isobath, the line joining points where the water is 2,500 metres deep (Article 76(5)).The 100, 200 and 1,000 metre depths play no part in this rule. The 200 metre depth was the old test of the shelf under the 1958 Geneva Convention, which is why it can tempt, but UNCLOS replaced it.

Q: Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism is a proposed treaty which provides a comprehensive legal framework against terrorism. Which of the following countries has proposed this Convention in 1996 ?

The Convention was proposed by India.In 1996 India put forward a draft Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism at the United Nations, to give a single legal framework against terrorism in place of the many sectoral conventions on hijacking, hostage-taking and bombings. Negotiations in the General Assembly's Ad Hoc Committee have stalled mainly over the definition of terrorism, especially whether armed struggles for self-determination are excluded.The United Kingdom, the USA and Austria did not propose it, though India has continued to press all members to adopt it.

Q: What does Paris Accord refer to ?

The Paris Accord is a climate change agreement.The Paris Agreement, adopted at COP21 of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in December 2015 and in force from November 2016, commits countries to hold global warming well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5 degrees, through nationally determined contributions.It is not a military agreement or a peace accord, and it has nothing to do with the India-Pakistan dispute. Climate change appears in strategic studies as a threat multiplier for security.

Q: (1) The September terrorist attacks on W.T.C. have put new emphasis on strategies of prevention and pre-emption.(2) Terrorist attacks will demand even better intelligence than the strategies of containment and deterence.Codes :

Both statements are correct, so the answer is (1) and (2) are correct.After the attacks of 11 September 2001 on the World Trade Center, the United States shifted its emphasis from containment and deterrence, which work against states that have something to lose, to prevention and pre-emption, acting against threats before they materialise; the National Security Strategy of 2002 set this out (1).Pre-empting terrorists depends on knowing what they plan, so such a strategy demands far better intelligence than containment and deterrence did (2). Since both statements hold, the options marking either as wrong are incorrect.

Q: Which of the following is not a pillar of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy ?

The option that is not a pillar is No guarantee or respect for human rights and the rule of law.The UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy, adopted by the General Assembly in 2006, rests on four pillars:addressing the conditions conducive to the spread of terrorism;measures to prevent and combat terrorism;building states' capacity to prevent and combat terrorism and strengthening the UN system's role;measures to ensure respect for human rights for all and the rule of law as the fundamental basis of the fight against terrorism.Option D reverses the fourth pillar, so it is the one that is not part of the Strategy.

Q: The headquarters of the African Union is located in :

The African Union is headquartered in Addis Ababa.The African Union, which replaced the Organisation of African Unity in 2002, has its headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where the OAU was founded in 1963. Its Commission sits there.Johannesburg is the seat of the AU's Pan-African Parliament (in neighbouring Midrand), Nairobi hosts the UN Environment Programme, and Kampala is Uganda's capital. None is the AU's headquarters.

31.

Which of the following pairs is incorrect ?

A.G-15 Nations - Security Council Members
B.G-8 Nations - Developed and Industrial Nations
C.G-77 Nations - Developing Nations
D.ASEAN Nations - Group of South East Nations

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2019, SET Exam - 2019,

Answer: A

The incorrect pair is G-15 Nations - Security Council Members.

The Group of Fifteen is a forum of developing countries from Asia, Africa and Latin America, formed at the Non-Aligned summit at Belgrade in 1989 to promote South-South cooperation. India is a founder member. It has nothing to do with membership of the UN Security Council, which has 15 members of its own, the source of the confusion.

The other pairs are correct: the G-8 was the group of major developed industrial nations, the G-77 is the UN coalition of developing nations, and ASEAN is the Association of South East Asian Nations.

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32.

The NGO dedicated to the release of political prisoners all over the world is known as :

A.Amnesty International
B.Red Cross
C.Human Rights Council
D.None of the above

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2019, MH SET - 2020, SET Exam - 2019, SET Exam - 2020,

Answer: A

The NGO is Amnesty International.

Amnesty was founded in London in 1961 after the lawyer Peter Benenson's newspaper appeal for 'prisoners of conscience', people jailed for their beliefs who had not used or advocated violence. Campaigning for their release, and against torture and the death penalty, became its core work, and it received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977.

The Red Cross helps victims of war and disaster and visits detainees, but it works confidentially and does not campaign for prisoners' release. The Human Rights Council is an intergovernmental UN body, not an NGO.

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33.

When did the UN Millennium Development Goals end ?

A.2014
B.2015
C.2016
D.2017

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2019, MH SET - 2020, SET Exam - 2019, SET Exam - 2020,

Answer: B

The Millennium Development Goals ended in 2015.

The eight MDGs came out of the UN Millennium Declaration of 2000 and set targets on poverty, hunger, education, gender, child and maternal health, disease and the environment, to be reached by 2015. They were succeeded by the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, adopted in September 2015 for the period to 2030.

2014 is a year too early, and 2016 is the year the SDGs took effect, not the end of the MDGs. 2017 has no link with either.

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34.

UNSC Counter-Terrorism Committee is assisted by CTED. What does CTED stand for ?

A.Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate
B.Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate
C.Council of Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate
D.Counter-Terrorism and Executive Directorate

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2020, SET Exam - 2020,

Answer: B

CTED stands for the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate.

The Security Council set up the Counter-Terrorism Committee by Resolution 1373 after the attacks of 11 September 2001, to monitor how states implement their counter-terrorism obligations. In 2004, Resolution 1535 created the Executive Directorate as its expert body, to carry out country assessments and support the Committee's work.

The other expansions each drop or alter a word: the Directorate belongs to the Committee, not to a 'Council of Counter-Terrorism', and there is no separate 'Counter-Terrorism and Executive Directorate'.

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35.

The outer limits of the legal continental shelf cannot exceed 350 Nautical miles from the territorial sea baselines or 100 Nautical miles beyond the ................. isobath.

A.100 meters
B.200 meters
C.2500 meters
D.1000 meters

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2020, SET Exam - 2020,

Answer: C

The isobath is 2500 meters.

Under Article 76 of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, a coastal state's continental shelf may extend beyond 200 nautical miles where the continental margin does. Its outer limit must not exceed either 350 nautical miles from the baselines or 100 nautical miles beyond the 2,500 metre isobath, the line joining points where the water is 2,500 metres deep (Article 76(5)).

The 100, 200 and 1,000 metre depths play no part in this rule. The 200 metre depth was the old test of the shelf under the 1958 Geneva Convention, which is why it can tempt, but UNCLOS replaced it.

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36.

Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism is a proposed treaty which provides a comprehensive legal framework against terrorism. Which of the following countries has proposed this Convention in 1996 ?

A.India
B.United Kingdom
C.USA
D.Austria

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2020, SET Exam - 2020,

Answer: A

The Convention was proposed by India.

In 1996 India put forward a draft Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism at the United Nations, to give a single legal framework against terrorism in place of the many sectoral conventions on hijacking, hostage-taking and bombings. Negotiations in the General Assembly's Ad Hoc Committee have stalled mainly over the definition of terrorism, especially whether armed struggles for self-determination are excluded.

The United Kingdom, the USA and Austria did not propose it, though India has continued to press all members to adopt it.

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37.

What does Paris Accord refer to ?

A.Climate change agreement
B.Military agreement
C.Peace Accord
D.India-Pakistan Dispute

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2020, SET Exam - 2020,

Answer: A

The Paris Accord is a climate change agreement.

The Paris Agreement, adopted at COP21 of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in December 2015 and in force from November 2016, commits countries to hold global warming well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5 degrees, through nationally determined contributions.

It is not a military agreement or a peace accord, and it has nothing to do with the India-Pakistan dispute. Climate change appears in strategic studies as a threat multiplier for security.

Discuss in Forum

38.

(1) The September terrorist attacks on W.T.C. have put new emphasis on strategies of prevention and pre-emption.
(2) Terrorist attacks will demand even better intelligence than the strategies of containment and deterence.

Codes :

A.(1) and (2) are correct
B.(1) is right and (2) is wrong
C.(1) is wrong and (2) is right
D.(1) and (2) are wrong

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2020, SET Exam - 2020,

Answer: A

Both statements are correct, so the answer is (1) and (2) are correct.

After the attacks of 11 September 2001 on the World Trade Center, the United States shifted its emphasis from containment and deterrence, which work against states that have something to lose, to prevention and pre-emption, acting against threats before they materialise; the National Security Strategy of 2002 set this out (1).

Pre-empting terrorists depends on knowing what they plan, so such a strategy demands far better intelligence than containment and deterrence did (2). Since both statements hold, the options marking either as wrong are incorrect.

Discuss in Forum

39.

Which of the following is not a pillar of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy ?

A.Addressing the conditions conducive to the spread of terrorism
B.Measures to prevent and combat terrorism
C.Build state's capacity to prevent and combat terrorism and to strengthen the role of the United Nations' System in that regard
D.No guarantee or respect for human rights and the rule of law

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2020, SET Exam - 2020,

Answer: D

The option that is not a pillar is No guarantee or respect for human rights and the rule of law.

The UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy, adopted by the General Assembly in 2006, rests on four pillars:

addressing the conditions conducive to the spread of terrorism;
measures to prevent and combat terrorism;
building states' capacity to prevent and combat terrorism and strengthening the UN system's role;
measures to ensure respect for human rights for all and the rule of law as the fundamental basis of the fight against terrorism.

Option D reverses the fourth pillar, so it is the one that is not part of the Strategy.

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40.

The headquarters of the African Union is located in :

A.Johannesburg
B.Addis Ababa
C.Nairobi
D.Kampala

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2020, SET Exam - 2020,

Answer: B

The African Union is headquartered in Addis Ababa.

The African Union, which replaced the Organisation of African Unity in 2002, has its headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where the OAU was founded in 1963. Its Commission sits there.

Johannesburg is the seat of the AU's Pan-African Parliament (in neighbouring Midrand), Nairobi hosts the UN Environment Programme, and Kampala is Uganda's capital. None is the AU's headquarters.

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