{"id":12891,"date":"2016-06-28T09:50:11","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T09:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=12891"},"modified":"2016-06-28T09:50:11","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T09:50:11","slug":"india-joined-missile-technology-control-regime-mtcr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/india-joined-missile-technology-control-regime-mtcr\/","title":{"rendered":"India joined the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question: Recently India joined the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) as a full member. India joined as the-<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) 34th Member<br \/>\n(b) 35th Member<br \/>\n(c) 40th Member<br \/>\n(d) 42nd Member<br \/>\n<strong>Ans: (b)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On 27 June 2016 India joined the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) as a full member at a ceremony in South Block, attended by Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar and diplomats from the Netherlands, France and Luxembourg missions.<\/li>\n<li>India become the 35th member of the Regime.<\/li>\n<li>The membership will strengthen the international efforts to prevent proliferation of delivery systems (ballistic missiles or unmanned aircraft) capable of delivering weapons of mass destruction.<\/li>\n<li>MTCR membership will now enable India to buy high-end missile technology and also enhance its joint ventures with Russia.<\/li>\n<li>The aim of the MTCR is to restrict the proliferation of missiles, complete rocket systems, unmanned air vehicles and related technology for those systems capable of carrying a 500 kilogramme payload for at least 300 kilometres, as well as systems intended for the delivery of weapons of mass destruction.<\/li>\n<li>The annual plenary meeting of the MTCR will be held in the Republic of Korea in October 2016.<\/li>\n<li>The MTCR was originally established in 1987 by Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States.<\/li>\n<li>Presently, the number of MTCR partners has increased to a total of thirty-five countries, all of which have equal standing within the Regime.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtcr.info\/english\/160627-India.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.mtcr.info\/english\/160627-India.pdf<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsonair.com\/full_news.asp?top3=top\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.newsonair.com\/full_news.asp?top3=top<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Recently India joined the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) as a full member. India joined as the- (a) 34th Member (b) 35th Member (c) 40th Member (d) 42nd Member Ans: (b) Related facts: On 27 June 2016 India joined the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) as a full member at a ceremony in South [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":12892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ao"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}