UPSC Prelims Practice Questions — India-New Zealand Strategic Partnership: Roadmap to 2030

Q1. The India–New Zealand Free Trade Agreement was signed on behalf of New Zealand exclusively by which one of the following?

  • A. Todd McClay, Minister for Trade and Investment
  • B. Christopher Luxon, Prime Minister
  • C. Winston Peters, Minister of Foreign Affairs
  • D. Nicola Willis, Minister of Finance

Q2. The India–New Zealand Free Trade Agreement expands market access across how many service sectors?

  • A. 70 service sectors
  • B. 95 service sectors
  • C. 118 service sectors
  • D. 20 service sectors

Q3. India and New Zealand first established diplomatic relations in which one of the following years?

  • A. 1947
  • B. 1952
  • C. 1965
  • D. 1972

Q4. The MEA bilateral brief cites sporting and adventure links as having fostered goodwill between India and New Zealand. Of the following—cricket, hockey, mountaineering and rugby—how many are specifically named?

  • A. One
  • B. Two
  • C. Three
  • D. Four

Q5. In India, the customs administration that would operationalise arrangements such as the 2024 India–New Zealand Customs Cooperation Arrangement functions under which one of the following?

  • A. Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs, Ministry of Finance
  • B. Directorate General of Foreign Trade, Ministry of Commerce and Industry
  • C. Ministry of External Affairs
  • D. Central Board of Direct Taxes, Ministry of Finance

Q6. India's bilateral Strategic Partnership 'Roadmap' frameworks, such as those with New Zealand and the Netherlands, are negotiated and coordinated on the Indian side principally by which one of the following?

  • A. Ministry of External Affairs
  • B. Ministry of Commerce and Industry
  • C. NITI Aayog
  • D. Ministry of Home Affairs

Q7. The India–Netherlands Strategic Partnership Roadmap (2026–2030) was adopted at a May 2026 meeting between Prime Minister Modi and which one of the following?

  • A. Rob Jetten, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
  • B. Mark Rutte, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
  • C. Dick Schoof, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
  • D. Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission

Q8. Prime Minister Modi's July 2026 trip to Auckland holds which one of the following distinctions?

  • A. It was the first-ever visit to New Zealand by an Indian Prime Minister
  • B. It was the first visit to New Zealand by an Indian Prime Minister in about four decades
  • C. It was the first visit to New Zealand by an Indian Head of State
  • D. It was the first Indian Prime Ministerial visit to the Oceania region

Q9. New Zealand's interest in joining the Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative and its welcome of India's participation in the Combined Maritime Forces were recorded exclusively in which one of the following instruments?

  • A. India–New Zealand Joint Statement of March 2025
  • B. India–New Zealand Customs Cooperation Arrangement, 2024
  • C. India–New Zealand Free Trade Agreement, 2026
  • D. India–Netherlands Strategic Partnership Roadmap (2026–2030)