Most Favoured Nation Status: Key Points The World Trade Organization’s 164 members commit to treating other members equally so they can all benefit from each other’s lowest tariffs, highest import quotas and fewest trade barriers for goods and services. This principle of non-discrimination is known as most favoured nation (MFN) treatment. There are some exceptions, […]
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What Is 1954 Hague Convention?
What Is 1954 Hague Convention? The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has pitched for protective measures to preserve Ukraine’s endangered cultural heritage in light of Russia’s invasion over Ukraine. To avoid deliberate or accidental damages, the agency is marking cultural sites and monuments in Ukraine with the distinctive “Blue Shield” emblem […]
Women in United Nations Peacekeeping
Women in United Nations Peacekeeping Many women soldiers were training to be a part of a United Nations Peacekeeping mission. For more than a decade, the United Nations (UN) has called for more participation from women in conflict prevention, post-conflict peacebuilding and peacekeeping. UN Peacekeeping began in 1948 when the UN Security Council authorised the […]
Motor Vehicles Agreement (MVA)
Motor Vehicles Agreement (MVA): With Bhutan continuing to sit out the Motor Vehicles Agreement (MVA) of the sub-regional Bangladesh-Bhutan-India-Nepal (BBIN) grouping, a meeting of the other three countries was held to discuss the next steps in operationalising the agreement for the free flow of goods and people between them. The original BBIN MVA was signed […]
Temporary Protection Directive (TPD)
Temporary Protection Directive (TPD): Over 1.5 million people fled Ukraine in the first 10 days of fighting, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, which has described the displacement as the “fastest growing refugee crisis since the Second World War”. Responding to the crisis, EU Member States on March 3 made the unprecedented […]
SLINEX-22: Bilateral Maritime Exercise
SLINEX-22: Bilateral Maritime Exercise The Ninth Edition of India – Sri Lanka Bilateral Maritime Exercise SLINEX (Sri Lanka–India Naval Exercise) is being conducted at Visakhapatnam. The 8th edition of SLINEX was conducted off Trincomalee, Sri Lanka in October 2020. The exercise is being conducted in two phases, the Harbour Phase at Visakhapatnam followed by the […]
FATF Retains Pakistan In Grey List
FATF Retains Pakistan In Grey List: The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has retained Pakistan on its ‘greylist’ or ‘increased monitoring list’. The FATF included the United Arab Emirates (UAE), with which India signed a free trade agreement in February 2021. There are 17 countries on the grey list of the FATF. Zimbabwe has been […]
India Abstained On A Vote At The UN Human Rights Council
India abstained On A Vote At The UN Human Rights Council: India abstained on a vote at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva as the Council decided to set up an international commission of enquiry into Russia’s actions in Ukraine. The resolution “strongly condemned” aggression by Russia in Ukraine. Russian troops recently captured Zaporizhzhia […]
Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station
Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station: Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station, Europe’s largest nuclear power plant was hit by Russian shelling, sparking a fire and raising fears of a disaster that could affect all of central Europe for decades, like the 1986 Chernobyl meltdown. Concerns faded after Ukrainian authorities announced that the fire had been extinguished, and while […]
Iran’s 2015 Nuclear Accord: Important Points
Iran’s (Tehran’s) 2015 Nuclear Accord: The diplomats from Iran and world powers reconvened in Vienna (Austria) to seek a deal reviving Iran’s (Tehran’s) 2015 Nuclear Accord. The 2015 Iran nuclear deal, signed under President Barack Obama, and dismantled in 2018 by President Donald Trump. The US said it will rejoin the agreement if Iran complies […]
