Joint Military Excercise Dustlik-2019

Current context: The first-ever India-Uzbekistan joint military exercise - Dustlik-2019 is to begin at Tashkent from 4th November 2019.

• The curtain raiser of the military drill was held on 3rd November by the Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and his Uzbekistan counterpart Major General Bakhodir Nizamovich Kurbanov.
• The focus of the exercise is on counter-terrorism and will continue till 13th November 2019 at Chirchiq Training Area near Tashkent.
• An Indian Army contingent will train along with Uzbekistan Army in the exercise.
• The Defence Minister Rajnath Singh affirmed India’s commitment of developing a state-of-the-art IT complex in Armed Forces Academy of Uzbekistan.

Question: 

Q.1 The exercise Dustlik-2019, is the first-ever joint military exercise between India and _____?
a. Bangladesh
b. Uzbekistan
c. Singapore
d. France