{"id":118139,"date":"2021-07-19T12:51:51","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T12:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=118139"},"modified":"2021-07-19T12:51:53","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T12:51:53","slug":"apec-meeting-on-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/apec-meeting-on-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"APEC meeting on Covid 19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Which country has chaired a special Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting on Covid 19?<\/strong><br>(a) New Zealand<br>(b) Canada<br>(c) China<br>(d) USA<br><strong>Answer: (a)<br>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>On 17 July 2021, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has chaired a meeting of Leaders representing the 21 APEC economies on Covid 19.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Meeting highlights:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>During the meeting world leaders highlighted role of extensive COVID-19 global immunization essential in order to overcome health emergency.<\/li><li>Leaders of APEC discussed on range of area including redoubling efforts to expand vaccine manufacturing and supply, analyzing individual domestic approaches to the ongoing management of COVID-19 and looking into fiscal and monetary tools available to sustain economies through the pandemic, with the importance of keeping markets open to one another .<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>APEC:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>APEC is a forum comprising of 21 Asia-Pacific economies. It was founded by Australia in 1989.<\/li><li>APEC objective is to encourage growing &amp; prosperous regional economy by \u2013 trade &amp; investment liberalisation &amp; facilitation across the border, reducing costs of cross-border trade, economic &amp; technical cooperation, exchanging best practice on trade &amp; investment etc.<\/li><li>The headquarters of APEC is in Singapore.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>APEC Chairmanship 2021:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In 2021, New Zealand is hosting APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) virtually.<\/li><li>The country will host hundreds of APEC meetings from December 2020 until November 2021 in dozens of clusters, with many more unique sessions.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By-Amar Mani Upadhyay<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apec2021nz.org\/apec-nz-2021\/apec-news\/pm-ardern-chairs-apec-leaders-meeting-on-covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.apec2021nz.org\/apec-nz-2021\/apec-news\/pm-ardern-chairs-apec-leaders-meeting-on-covid-19<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Which country has chaired a special Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting on Covid 19?(a) New Zealand(b) Canada(c) China(d) USAAnswer: (a)Related facts: On 17 July 2021, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has chaired a meeting of Leaders representing the 21 APEC economies on Covid 19. 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