UPSC Prelims 2023 Question:

Consider the following pairs

Sl. No.	Regions often mentioned in news	Reason for being in news
1.	North Kivu and Ituri	War between Armenia and Azerbaijan
2.	Nagorno-Karabakh	Insurgency in Mozambique
3.	Kherson and aporizhzhia	Dispute between Israel and Lebanon

How many of the above pairs are correctly matched?

Explanation:

• North Kivu and Ituri are the Provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Humanitarian Emergency in North Kivu, Ituri and South Kivu in 2023. So, pair 1 is not correctly matched.
  
  
• The landlocked mountainous region of Nagorno-Karabakh is the subject of an unresolved dispute between Azerbaijan, in which it lies, and its ethnic Armenian majority, backed by neighbouring Armenia. So, pair 2 is not correctly matched.
  
  
• Russia carried out so-called referendums on joining Russia in the Ukrainian regions of Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson – which represent 15 percent of Ukraine’s territory and are controlled by Russia.  So, pair 3 is not correctly matched.
  
  

Therefore, option (4) is the correct answer.

Subject: Polity | International Relations