{"id":2324,"date":"2024-05-01T17:44:48","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T12:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/?p=2324"},"modified":"2024-05-01T17:45:25","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T12:15:25","slug":"q-which-of-the-following-is-not-a-member-of-gulf-cooperation-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/upsc\/q-which-of-the-following-is-not-a-member-of-gulf-cooperation-council","title":{"rendered":"Q. Which of the following is not a member of \u2018Gulf Cooperation Council\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"mcq wp-block-list\">\n<li>Iran<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Saudi Arabia<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Oman<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kuwait<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Answer:<\/strong>&nbsp;(<strong>a) Iran<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"gulf-cooperation-council-gcc\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/gulf-cooperation-council-upsc\/\">Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)<\/a>:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It is a\u00a0political and economic alliance of\u00a0<strong>six Middle Eastern countries<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<strong>Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, and Oman<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/gulf-cooperation-council-upsc\/\">GCC\u00a0<\/a>was\u00a0<strong>established in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in May 1981.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Objective:\u00a0<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The purpose of the GCC is\u00a0<strong>to achieve unity among its members based on their common objectives and their similar political and cultural identities<\/strong>, which are rooted in Arab and Islamic cultures.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>Presidency of the council rotates annually.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/gulf-cooperation-council-1024x939.png\" alt=\"gulf cooperation council\" class=\"wp-image-50792\" title=\"Upsc prelims research: international relations 2016 2\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Answer:&nbsp;(a) Iran Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[47],"years":[57],"class_list":["post-2324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upsc","category-prelims","tag-international-relations","years-57"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"UPSC"},{"value":3,"label":"Prelims"}],"post_tag":[{"value":47,"label":"International Relations"}],"years":[{"value":57,"label":"2016"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"LotusArise","author_link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/author\/team-lotusarise"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"UPSC","slug":"upsc","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1269,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":1269,"category_description":"","cat_name":"UPSC","category_nicename":"upsc","category_parent":0},{"term_id":3,"name":"Prelims","slug":"prelims","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":1,"count":1251,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":1251,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Prelims","category_nicename":"prelims","category_parent":1}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":47,"name":"International Relations","slug":"international-relations","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":47,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":79,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2324"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=2324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}