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Q: Explain Briefly about North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) ?
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| 1 | NATO was created on April 4, 1949, in a treaty singed in Washington, by Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the U.S.A. Greece, Turkey and West Germany have also joined. Spain joined the organization on May 30, 1982 as the 16th member. The members agreed to settle disputes by peaceful means; to develop their individual and collective capacity to resist armed attack; to regard an attack o one as an attack on all and to take necessary action to repel it under Article 51 of the UN Charter. | |
| 2 | NATO Council meetings may consist of Heads of Government, Cabinet Ministers of permanent NATO representatives, who hold the rank of ambassador. The military committee is composed of the chiefs of staff of the member countries and permanent representatives. Armed forces of NATO members include forces assigned to NATO commands, forces earmarked for NATO commands and forces under national command. There is a Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), a Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic (SACANT), a Channel Committee and Allied Command Channel (covering the English Channel and Southern North Sea) and a Canada-U.S. Regional Planning Group. (Headquarters: Brussels, Belgium) Members: (19) Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, UK, U.S. New members in 2004: (7) Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia. Head Quarters (Belgium, Brussels) |
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