UPSC Prelims 2015 · Question 3 of 98

UPSC Prelims 2015 question on Fortaleza Declaration

The 'Fortaleza Declaration', recently in the news, is related to the affairs of

  1. ASEAN
  2. BRICS
  3. OECD
  4. WTO
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Answer: B. BRICS

Verdict

The answer is BRICS. The Fortaleza Declaration was issued at the sixth BRICS Summit.

Analysis

The Fortaleza Summit of July 2014 in Brazil produced the declaration that announced the New Development Bank and the Contingent Reserve Arrangement, which is why the term stayed in the news. ASEAN summits produce declarations named after their host cities too, which is what makes the distractor plausible, but Fortaleza is a Brazilian city and Brazil is not an ASEAN member. The OECD and the WTO both issue ministerial texts, but neither met at Fortaleza in this period.

Source

The Hindu coverage of the BRICS banking outcome.

How to crack it

Declarations are almost always named after the city that hosted the summit, so the question reduces to placing the city. Fortaleza is in Brazil, and among the four options only BRICS has Brazil as a member. Geography closes the question without any recall of the text. Make a habit of logging every summit as grouping plus host city plus one headline outcome, because UPSC asks all three angles in rotation.

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