Q. Consider the following pairs: Regions often mentioned in news Reason for being in news
1.North Kivu and ItueiWar between Armenia and Azerbaijan
2.Nagorno-KarabakhInsurgency in Mozambique
3.Kherson and ZaporizhzhiaDispute between Israel and Lebanon
How many of the above pairs are correctly matched?
Exp) Option d is the correct answer.
Pair 1 is incorrectly matched: North Kivu and Ituri are the eastern provinces of Democratic Republic of Congo. The President of Congo, Felix Tshisekedi declared a “State of Siege” due to the increasing violence in the eastern provinces of North Kivu and Ituri. The violence killed more than hundred people and displaced more than 1.5 million.
Pair 2 is incorrectly matched: Nagorno-Karabakh is a mountainous and heavily forested region that under international law is recognised as part of Azerbaijan. Recently, protests against possible concessions by Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh which is disputed with neighboring Azerbaijan, have increased.
Pair 3 is incorrectly matched: Russia released vote tallies showing overwhelming support in four provinces of Ukraine to join with Russia. The four regions are Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson.
Subject) Polity/IR
