19th Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) Meet

Current context: The 19th Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) Meeting has begun from 7th November 2019 at Abu Dhabi.

 

• V Muraleedharan, Minister of State in the External Affairs Ministry has participated in the event representing India.
• The theme of this year meeting is "Promoting a Shared Destiny and Path to Prosperity in the Indian Ocean."
• During this meet, the IORA Chairmanship will be given to the United Arab Emirates from South Africa, for a two year period till 2021.
• IORA was founded in 1997 and is headquartered at Mauritius.
• It is an inter-governmental organisation with 22 member states as well as nine dialogue partners.
• It seeks to promote sustained growth and balanced development within the Indian Ocean region.
• The Indian Ocean region’s maritime trade accounts for around half of the world’s container ships, one-third of the world’s bulk cargo traffic and two-thirds of world oil shipments.

Question: 

Q.1 The chairmanship of the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) was transferred from South Africa to ______________ at the 19th IORA meeting in 2019?
a. India
b. Indonesia
c. UAE
d. Srilanka