{"id":36525,"date":"2017-12-13T13:17:01","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T13:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=36525"},"modified":"2017-12-13T13:17:01","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T13:17:01","slug":"wasenar-arrangement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wasenar-arrangement\/","title":{"rendered":"Wasenar Arrangement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question- India recently got membership in the Wassenaar arrangement. The purpose of the Wassenaar arrangement is to:<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) To promote non-conventional energy.<br \/>\n(b) Control of the production of atomic weapons<br \/>\n(c) Control the export of conventional weapons and double-use items and technology.<br \/>\n(d) Controlling chemical weapons.<br \/>\n<strong>Answer- (c)<br \/>\nRelated facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On December 7th, 2017, India became a member of the multilateral arms export control group &#8216;Wassenaar Arrangement&#8217; (WA).<\/li>\n<li>Process for India&#8217;s membership will be completed by the group soon.<\/li>\n<li>It is notable that the twenty-third WA Plenary meeting, chaired by Ambassador Jean-Louis Falconi of France, was held in Vienna on 6th-7th December 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Its aim is to control the export of conventional weapons and dual-use items and technology.<\/li>\n<li>This led to increase in India\u2019s commitment to nuclear non-proliferation.<\/li>\n<li>With this decision, India&#8217;s claim in nuclear supplier group and Australia group became stronger.<\/li>\n<li>Significantly, India is already a member of the Missile Technology Control Regime (M.T.C.R.).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wassenaar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/WA-Plenary-2017-Chairs-Statement.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.wassenaar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/WA-Plenary-2017-Chairs-Statement.pdf<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wassenaar.org\/about-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.wassenaar.org\/about-us\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mea.gov.in\/press-releases.htm?dtl\/29164\/India_Joins_the_Wassenaar_Arrangement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/mea.gov.in\/press-releases.htm?dtl\/29164\/India_Joins_the_Wassenaar_Arrangement <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ptinews.com\/news\/9305997_India-joins-the-Wassenaar-Arrangement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.ptinews.com\/news\/9305997_India-joins-the-Wassenaar-Arrangement.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question- India recently got membership in the Wassenaar arrangement. The purpose of the Wassenaar arrangement is to: (a) To promote non-conventional energy. (b) Control of the production of atomic weapons (c) Control the export of conventional weapons and double-use items and technology. (d) Controlling chemical weapons. Answer- (c) Related facts: On December 7th, 2017, India [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":36295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1135],"tags":[2508],"class_list":["post-36525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ao","tag-associations-organizations-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36525","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36525\/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\/36295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36525"}],"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=36525"},{"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=36525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}