Name: North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

Date of creation: 1949

NAME: North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Member countries: Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech
Republic,
Denmark,1949
Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary,
DATE OF CREATION:
Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway,
Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, United
MEMBER COUNTRIES:
Kingdom,
United States
Albania
Czech
Lithuania
Turkey
Fundamental
role:
toRepublic
safeguardGreece
the freedom and
security of Portugal
its
Belgium
Denmark
Hungary
Luxembourg
Romania
United Kingdom
member countries by political and military means.
Bulgaria
Estonia
Iceland
Netherlands
Slovakia
United States
Secretary
General:
Rasmussen
Canada
FranceAnders FoghItaly
Norway
Slovenia
Croatia
Germany
Latvia
Poland
Spain
Ongoing military operations and missions:
- International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), Afghanistan
FUNDAMENTAL
- KosovoROLE:
Force (KFOR)
- Operation
Active
Endeavour
incountries
the Mediterranean
To safeguard
the freedom and
security
of its member
by political and military means.
- Counter-piracy operations off the Horn of Africa
- Assistance to the African Union
SECRETARY
GENERAL:
Fogh Rasmussen
- Military
HQ Anders
in Bosnia
and Herzegovina
- Civil emergency operations, as requested
Military
forces:COUNCIL:
NATO hasthevery
few permanent
forces
of its
own. Once
NORTH ATLANTIC
top political
decision-making
body within
NATO.
members agree, by consensus, to engage in an operation, they
contribute forces on a voluntary basis.
ONGOING MILITARY OPERATIONS AND MISSIONS:
Partnerships:
International
Security Assistance
Force (ISAF),
Afghanistan
-Partnership
for Peace:
Armenia,
Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus,
Kosovoand
ForceHerzegovina,
(KFOR)
Bosnia
Finland, the former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia*,
Georgia,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Malta,
Operation Active
EndeavourIreland,
in the Mediterranean
Republic
of
Moldova,
Montenegro,
Russia,
Serbia,
Sweden,
Operation Ocean Shield in the Gulf of Aden and
off the Horn
of Africa
Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Assistance
to the African Union
- Mediterranean
Dialogue: Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan,
Military HQ inMorocco,
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Mauritania,
Tunisia and in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia*
Civil emergency
operations,
as requestedInitiative: Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait,
Istanbul
Cooperation
United Arab Emirates
- Global partners: Australia, Japan, New Zealand, Republic of
Korea, Mongolia, Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan
MILITARY
FORCES:
- Other
international organizations: principally United
Nations, European Union, Organization for Security and Cooperation
NATO
has very few permanent forces of its own. Once members agree, by consensus, to engage in an operation, they
in
Europe.
contribute forces on a voluntary basis.
Partner countries do not have the same decision-making authority as
NATO hascountries.
an integrated military command structure, allowing the Alliance to implement political decisions that have military
member
implications.
*PARTNERSHIPS:
Turkey recognises the Republic of Macedonia with its constitutional name.

Partnership for Peace: Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Finland, the former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia*, Georgia, Ireland, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Malta, Republic of Moldova, Montenegro,
Russia, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Mediterranean Dialogue: Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia
Istanbul Cooperation Initiative: Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates
Global partners: Afghanistan, Australia, Iraq, Japan, Mongolia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Republic of Korea
Other international organisations: principally United Nations, European Union, Organization for Security and Co-operation
in Europe.
Partner countries do not have the same decision-making authority as member countries.

* Turkey recognises the Republic of Macedonia with its constitutional name.

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