SSC CGL 2025 Tier-I · 12 September 2025, Shift 3 · General Awareness · Question 7 of 100

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Which city hosted the Meeting of the BRICS Ministers of Foreign Affairs on 4 June 2018?

(a)Pretoria, South Africa
(b)Brasilia, Brazil
(c)Beijing, China
(d)New Delhi, India

Answer

Why

Correct — A. The BRICS media statement records that the Ministers of Foreign Affairs/International Relations of the five members met on 4 June 2018 in Pretoria, South Africa.

The statement thanks South Africa for hosting and welcomes its Chairship, looking ahead to the 10th BRICS Summit in Johannesburg. So option (a).

Why the others are wrong

(b)
Brasilia, Brazil — Brazil hosted the 11th BRICS summit at Brasília in 2019. In June 2018 the ministers met under South Africa's chairship.
(c)
Beijing, China — China hosted the 9th summit, at Xiamen, in 2017. The June 2018 ministerial meeting came a year later, in South Africa.
(d)
New Delhi, India — India held the chair in 2016 and hosted the 8th summit in Goa. It was not the host in 2018.

Concept

In 2018 South Africa held the BRICS chairship. It hosted the foreign ministers at Pretoria on 4 June and the leaders at the 10th summit in Johannesburg.

That summit was held under the theme 'BRICS in Africa: Collaboration for Inclusive Growth and Shared Prosperity in the 4th Industrial Revolution'.

The Pretoria statement also welcomed the upcoming Americas Regional Office of the New Development Bank in São Paulo, Brazil.

Key facts

The BRICS foreign ministers met in Pretoria, South Africa, on 4 June 2018.
South Africa chaired BRICS in 2018 and hosted the 10th summit in Johannesburg.
India hosted the 8th summit (Goa, 2016), China the 9th (Xiamen, 2017) and Brazil the 11th (Brasília, 2019).
The Pretoria statement welcomed the New Development Bank's upcoming Americas Regional Office in São Paulo.

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Common traps

Taking the 2019 chair, Brazil, for the 2018 one.
Placing the meeting in Brazil because its statement mentions São Paulo.

The same Pretoria meeting frames 14 Sep 2025, 12:30, GA Q.6, which asks where the New Development Bank's Americas Regional Office was to be set up (keyed São Paulo).

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