Who led the Indian delegation during the signing of the Terms of Reference with Mexico?
- A.Foreign Secretary
- B.Commerce Secretary Rajesh Agrawal
- C.Finance Secretary
- D.Vice-Chairman of NITI Aayog
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Explanation
The correct answer is Commerce Secretary Rajesh Agrawal. The discussions on bilateral relations and on widening trade and investment flows were held during his visit, and the Mexican side was represented by Luis Rosendo Gutierrez Romano, Undersecretary of Foreign Trade, who took part on behalf of Secretary of Economy Marcelo Ebrard Casaubon. The Foreign Secretary is wrong, because the engagement was handled by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, which deals with trade agreements, rather than by the foreign office. The Finance Secretary is wrong for a similar reason, as the subjects on the table were market access for goods, rules of origin, customs procedures, trade facilitation, dispute settlement and trade remedies, all of which fall within the commerce ministry's charge. The Vice-Chairman of NITI Aayog is wrong because that body advises on policy and does not negotiate trade agreements with foreign governments.
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Practice Questions
India signed the Terms of Reference to launch Preferential Trade Agreement negotiations with which country?
- A.Brazil
- B.Mexico
- C.Argentina
- D.Chile
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The Terms of Reference signed on 28 October 2026 formally launch negotiations for a Preferential Trade Agreement between India and Mexico, and they lay down the framework, scope, modalities and roadmap that the negotiators will follow.
Read the full explanation →At which summit did the leaders of India and Mexico reach the understanding that led to these trade negotiations?
- A.BRICS Summit in South Africa
- B.G7 Summit in Canada
- C.G20 Summit in Brazil
- D.APEC Summit in Peru
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The Prime Minister of India and the President of Mexico met on the sidelines of that summit in June 2025 and agreed to strengthen and deepen the partnership between the two countries; the Terms of Reference signed later are the direct result of that understanding.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is a focus of the India-France manuscript cooperation agreement?
- A.Joint production of feature films
- B.Exchange of museum antiquities for permanent display
- C.OCR and HTR tools for Indian scripts
- D.Construction of a new library building in Paris
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The agreement provides for an exchange of expertise in digitisation and preservation technologies, cataloguing standards, optical character recognition and handwritten text recognition tools for Indian scripts, digital humanities and manuscript conservation.
Read the full explanation →Who signed the manuscript heritage MoU on behalf of the Government of India?
- A.Gilles Pecout, President of the BnF
- B.Vivek Aggarwal, Secretary, Ministry of Culture
- C.The Director General of the National Archives of India
- D.The Librarian of the National Library, Kolkata
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He signed and exchanged the Memorandum of Understanding in Paris on 26 October 2026 with Gilles Pecout, President of the Bibliotheque nationale de France.
Read the full explanation →Under which mission of the Ministry of Culture was the manuscript heritage MoU with the National Library of France signed?
- A.Gyan Bharatam Mission
- B.National Mission for Manuscripts
- C.Adopt a Heritage Mission
- D.Bharat Shared Repository Mission
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The agreement between the Ministry of Culture and the Bibliotheque nationale de France was signed in Paris on 26 October 2026 under this mission, which is the Ministry's flagship initiative for India's manuscript heritage.
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