AN ALLIANCE BOUND BY A DESIRE FOR COLLECTIVE DEFENCE, PEACE AND STABILITY

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1.NATO was established on 4 April 1949 5 members of the Western European Union along with Canada, Denmark, Iceland, Italy, Norway, Portugal, and the US signed the North Atlantic Treaty.

NATO is now made of 30 member countries In 1949 it had only 12 members The latest country to join NATO is North Macedonia in 2020

2.No country that has joined NATO has ever opted to leave it.

3.NATO has security partners in more than 40 countries The latest country to join NATO is North Macedonia in 2020

4. NATO intervened in the Bosnian War NATO had contributed to the resolution of the armed conflict between Bosnia and  Herzegovina

Article 5 of the treaty states that An attack on one NATO member is an attack on all its member

5."All for One"!

Article 5 of the treaty states that An attack on one NATO member is an attack on all its member

6. Article 5 was invoked after 9/11

France withdrew from NATO’s military command in 1966. In 2009 it rejoined.

7. France left, and then rejoined, NATO’s military command

NATO has asked that all members spend at least 2% of their GDP on defense. It projects that by 2024, 15 members will be hitting the 2% target.

8. NATO members to spend 2% of their GDP on defense

Iceland is the only member state which doesn’t have a standing army due to small population and insufficient funds.

9. Only one NATO member doesn’t have an army

NATO’s 10th article delineates that the alliance remains open to any European country, so long as it can abide by the rules of membership.

10. "THE OPEN DOOR POLICY"-ARTICLE 10

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