Current context: Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal is to attend the 9th RCEP (Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership) Intersessional Ministerial Meeting.
a. India
b. Pakistan
c. Australia
d. New Zealand
- The RCEP meeting is beginning from 11th October at Bangkok, Thailand.
- This is the last ministerial meeting before the 3rd Leaders’ Summit slated which will be held on 4th November in Bangkok.
- The 28th round of negotiations for RCEP was concluded at Da Nang, Vietnam this year
- The RCEP negotiations were launched by leaders from:
- 10 ASEAN member states- the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Vietnam, Brunei Darussalam and Cambodia.
- 6 ASEAN FTA partners- India, Japan, Republic of Korea, Australia, People's Republic of China and New Zealand.
- RCEP was commenced in 2013 with the objective is to achieve mutually beneficial economic partnership agreement among the ASEAN member states and ASEAN's FTA partners.
Question:
Q.1 Which among the following doesn’t come in the list of 6 ASEAN FTA partners?a. India
b. Pakistan
c. Australia
d. New Zealand
