Practice MCQ Questions and answers on World Organisations-GK

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 Group of Seven (G-7) consists of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States.

INTERPOL means International Criminal Police Organisation.

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 SAARC was founded in Dhaka on 8 December 1985. Its secretariat is based in Kathmandu, Nepal. The organization promotes development of economic and regional integration. It launched the South Asian Free Trade Area in 2006.

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 North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. NATO was the first peacetime military alliance the United States entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere.

The International Labour Organisation is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.

The UNO was founded on 24 October 1945, San Francisco, California, United States.

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.