UPSC Prelims Practice Questions — ‘India likely to be invited to join Hormuz security initiative’

Question 1

With reference to the 'European Maritime Awareness in the Strait of Hormuz' (EMASoH), which one of the following best describes the initiative?

Accepted Answer

A European-led maritime security mission for freedom of navigation in the Gulf, whose military pillar Operation AGENOR is headquartered at a French naval base in Abu Dhabi

Answer

A US-led Combined Task Force operating under the Combined Maritime Forces and headquartered in Bahrain

Answer

An EU counter-piracy naval operation off the coast of Somalia in the Gulf of Aden

Answer

A NATO standing maritime group conducting patrols in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea

Question 2

Operation AGENOR, the military component of the European Maritime Awareness in the Strait of Hormuz (EMASoH), is operationally headquartered at a naval base located in which one of the following countries?

Accepted Answer

United Arab Emirates

Answer

Kingdom of Bahrain

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Sultanate of Oman

Answer

Republic of Djibouti

Question 3

Which one of the following is identified as the world's single most important oil transit chokepoint, through which roughly one-fifth of global oil trade passes?

Accepted Answer

Strait of Hormuz

Answer

Strait of Malacca

Answer

Bab el-Mandeb

Answer

Suez Canal

Question 4

The 'Strait of Hormuz Maritime Navigation Initiative' conference, which brought together around fifty non-belligerent states in April 2026 to work toward a defensive multinational mission, was co-chaired by the heads of government of which one of the following pairs of countries?

Accepted Answer

France and the United Kingdom

Answer

France and Germany

Answer

United States and the United Kingdom

Answer

France and Italy

UPSC Prelims Practice Questions — ‘India likely to be invited to join Hormuz security initiative’

Q1. With reference to the 'European Maritime Awareness in the Strait of Hormuz' (EMASoH), which one of the following best describes the initiative?

Q2. Operation AGENOR, the military component of the European Maritime Awareness in the Strait of Hormuz (EMASoH), is operationally headquartered at a naval base located in which one of the following countries?

Q3. Which one of the following is identified as the world's single most important oil transit chokepoint, through which roughly one-fifth of global oil trade passes?

Q4. The 'Strait of Hormuz Maritime Navigation Initiative' conference, which brought together around fifty non-belligerent states in April 2026 to work toward a defensive multinational mission, was co-chaired by the heads of government of which one of the following pairs of countries?