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UPSC Prelims 2019 · GS Paper I

Question 54: International Relations and Current Affairs

Consider the following statements :

  1. 1.The United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) has a ‘Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air’.
  2. 2.The UNCAC is the ever-first legally binding global anti-corruption instrument.
  3. 3.A highlight of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC) is the inclusion of a specific chapter aimed at returning assets to their rightful owners from whom they had been taken illicitly.
  4. 4.The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) is mandated by its member States to assist in the implementation of both UNCAC and UNTOC.

Which of the statements given above are correct?

a1 and 3 only
b2, 3 and 4 only
c2 and 4 only
d1, 2, 3 and 4

AnswerUPSC’s answer is (c).

Statements 2 and 4 are correct. The UN Convention against Corruption, adopted in 2003, is the first legally binding global anti-corruption instrument, and UNODC is mandated to help states implement both UNCAC and UNTOC. The Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air belongs to UNTOC, not UNCAC. The chapter on returning stolen assets to rightful owners is in UNCAC, not UNTOC.

  • 1. The migrant smuggling protocol belongs to UNTOC.
  • 2. UNCAC is the first legally binding global anti-corruption instrument.
  • 3. The asset recovery chapter is in UNCAC.
  • 4. UNODC assists states with both conventions.

How you could have got this

  1. If you were sure statement 3 is not correct, (a), (b) and (d) go: each of them includes 3.

    What you needed to know: The asset recovery chapter is in UNCAC.

Only (c) is left. You didn’t need statements 1, 2 or 4.

Which options go is worked out from UPSC’s key and the options, not by a model.

Why each option is right or wrong
  • (a) Statements 1 and 3 both misplace provisions between the two conventions.
  • (b) Statement 3 is false: asset recovery is a chapter of UNCAC.
  • (c) Correct: statements 2 and 4 hold.
  • (d) Statements 1 and 3 are false.

Answer: UPSC’s key. Explanation: written by UPSC Grade, not by UPSC.

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Source: UPSC, Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination 2019, General Studies Paper I, Series A. The paper on upsc.gov.in.