Consider the following statements:
The India-Africa Summit
- 1.held in 2015 was the third such Summit
- 2.was actually initiated by Jawaharlal Nehru in 1951
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Answer & explanation
Answer: (a) 1 only
Only statement 1 is correct. The India-Africa Forum Summit series began in New Delhi in 2008, was held again in Addis Ababa in 2011, and its third edition met in New Delhi in October 2015. There is no record of a summit of this kind being started by Nehru in 1951.
- ✓ 1. The Third India-Africa Forum Summit met in New Delhi on 29 October 2015, after the first summit (New Delhi, April 2008) and the second (Addis Ababa, May 2011).
- ✗ 2. The summit series is a twenty-first century process. India's Ministry of External Affairs dates the structured engagement with the African Union to the first summit (IAFS-I) in 2008, not to 1951.
Remember · India-Africa Forum Summits: I New Delhi (April 2008), II Addis Ababa (May 2011), III New Delhi (October 2015).
Sources
- Ministry of External Affairs: India-Africa Framework for Strategic Cooperation, Third India-Africa Forum Summit (29 October 2015) ↗ “met in New Delhi, India on 29 October 2015 for the Third India- Africa Forum Summit”
- Ministry of External Affairs, Annual Report 2015-16 ↗ “Since the start of the structured engagement with the AU through the IAFS-I in 2008, India has extended 40,000 scholarships to Africa”
- African Union: Africa–India Partnership ↗ “The Africa–India Cooperation Agreement was launched by a Leaders’ Summit in April 2008 in New Delhi, India. … The second Summit was held on 25 May 2011 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and a third in October 2015 in New Delhi, India.”
Question and answer: UPSC's official GS Paper I (2016, Series A) — paper ↗ · answer key ↗. Explanation: Minimalist IAS, checked 30 Sept 2026 (how we verify). ·