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The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), sometimes called North Atlantic Alliance, Atlantic Alliance or the Western Alliance, is an international organisation1 for defence collaboration established in 1949, in support of the North Atlantic Treaty signed in Washington, D.C., on April 4, 1949.

Its other official name is the French equivalent, l'Organisation du Traité de l'Atlantique du Nord (OTAN) and Dutch, Noord-Atlantische Verdrags Organisatie (NAVO)

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General James ("Jim") L. Jones - who serves both as the highest ranking military officer at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), NATO’s HQ, and as the commander of the United States European Command (EUCOM) - said this 2006-01-10:

  • "In my personal opinion, NATO will most likely expand again.
  • NATO will be more proactive and more involved in multinational joint operations.
  • It will cooperate more with other international institutions, to include the United Nations.
  • It will become involved in supra-interagency cooperation to face the new threats.
  • Operations such as Pakistan have shown that we are not just about classical warfighting. The Alliance will leverage this ability to produce results in the less-than-war spectrum of operations."

(Source: Global War on Terror and Future of NATO +)

Contents

[edit] Member states

[edit] The 12 Founding members (April 4, 1949)

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[edit] States that joined during the Cold War

16 Countries are now NATO members.

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[edit] Former Eastern Bloc states that joined NATO after the Cold War

1999:

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19 Countries are now NATO members.

2004:

26 Countries are now NATO members.

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[edit] Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council - NATO "Partner countries"

Main article: Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council

The Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council consists of 46 member countries: the 26 NATO members and 20 partner countries:

  • 4 non-NATO EU members:
  • 12 CIS members:
  • 2 other:

[edit] Sovereign nations invaded by NATO / NATO member countries)

  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
    • 2004-12-03: "While the European Union assumes responsibility for peacekeeping operations, NATO will maintain a headquarters in Sarajevo to assist the country with defence reform." (NATO ends SFOR mission +)
  • Serbia and Montenegro
  • Afghanistan
  • Iraq

[edit] NATO, partners, members and invaded countries - 2006

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[edit] History

[edit] 1999

[edit] The expansion

[edit] The "interesting" IBM contract

  • 1999-03-29: NATO and International Business Machines Corporation sign a huge networking contract
    • ASIC ORDERING AGREEMENT NC3A/BOA/8685
    • Between "NATO CONSULTATION, COMMAND AND CONTROL ORGANISATION" represented by "THE GENERAL MANAGER, NATO C3 AGENCY" And INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION"
    • "Offers for sole source procurement, changes, modifications, and claims in excess of $500,000 shall be priced in accordance with this provision and the Purchaser's Pricing Principles as set out in Appendix 1 to this provision, or the National Government Pricing Rules and Regulations for IBM's own country where in force"
    • "EXHIBIT C - PRODUCTS AND SERVICES:"
      • "Personal Systems (PC) Products"
      • "IBM Netfinity Servers"
      • "IBM Commercial Desktops"
      • "IBM Thinkpads"
      • "IBM Intellistations"
      • "Additional Options and Features"
      • "Networking products (routers, hubs….)"

[edit] 2003

  • 2003-01-15: NATO, Iraq and the German-American Waltz +
    • "In five minutes, President Bush and President Havel redefined NATO’s territory of influence from a focus on Europe to a focus on the Middle East. The new mission would include protecting the alliance from the threats of terrorists and tyrants, and the degree of cooperation on engagement in Iraq would be a measuring stick of the alliance’s identity. Until just days before the summit, General Harald Kujat, the head of the NATO military council, among others, was denying that Iraq was a subject for NATO."
    • "Yet in Prague, not a single ally spoke against this new stated vision statement for NATO, which one commentator at the summit paraphrased as "keep democrats in, tyrants out and terrorists down" as a substitute for NATO’s Cold War mission to "keep the Americans in, the Russians out and the Germans down."
  • 2003-01-16: (defenselink.mil) Gen. James Jones Becomes First Marine EUCOM Commander; SACEUR Title to Follow +
    • "I believe that history has obviously shown that for the last 50-plus years, (NATO) has played an important role in this part of the world. With NATO enlargement upon us, we are now poised to write the chapter for the next 50 years." --General James ("Jim") L. Jones

[edit] 2004

[edit] Australia involvement indicated

  • 2004: "So I mean there is of course a great unity in thinking and analyses and that's the reason that Australia and NATO should cooperate... cooperating already, but should cooperate, I think, in a stronger and more expanded way in the future." --NATO Secretary General, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer (nato.int +

[edit] 2005

[edit] 2005-12-19: NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey

From "SPEECH BY THE NATO SECRETARY GENERAL AT BILKENT UNIVERSITY, ANKARA, TURKEY -- 19 DECEMBER 2005":

(NATO Integrated Data Service +)

"We have moved on from the rather passive, territorial approach to security that was suitable in the past, to a much more active and functional approach."

"In order to tackle today’s complex security challenges, we must apply military, political, economic and other instruments in a well-coordinated way."

[edit] 2006

[edit] January

  • 2006-01-09: (news.xinhuanet.com) NATO attaches importance to ties with China: NATO chief +
    • “NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said on Monday that the transatlantic alliance attaches great importance to relations with China.”
    • “Asked whether he anticipates any regular dialogue with China, de Hoop Scheffer said he preferred an incremental process. "Let's take a step-by-step approach. Let's not build a big castle before we have laid the foundation. We need a foundation first."”
  • 2006-01-10: NATO calls for solidarity in mission in Afghanistan +
    • "Britain, Canada and the Netherlands were tipped to lead the operation. But in the Netherlands, strong opposition both in parliament and among the public to additional troops deployment is prolonging an indecision process."
    • "NATO foreign ministers endorsed a plan to extend the ISAF mission to the volatile south of Afghanistan."
    • "Paul Bremer, who led the U.S. civilian occupation authority in Iraq after the 2003 invasion, has warned that Dutch interests in the United States will be hurt if the Netherlands opts against sending more troops to Afghanistan, Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant reported Monday."
      • "I assume that from time to time decisions must be taken by the U.S. government, by U.S. Congress, which affect Dutch economic interests. It is not difficult to predict that decisions will be made that are not in the best interests of the Netherlands," said Bremer.
    • "De Hoop Scheffer on Monday also reached out for help beyond the alliance, stressing that ISAF is not only a NATO affair."
      • "NATO's efforts to create an environment of security and stability has to be complemented by the European Union, the Group of Eight most industrialized nations and individual donors, he said."
      • "Afghanistan was one of the priorities de Hoop Scheffer defined for 2006. The other two are the Riga NATO summit, and relations with partners, like Ukraine, Russia and the Balkan states."
      • "It's NATO's change; it's NATO's evolution; it's NATO having the means, the forces and the political stature and status to do what it's supposed to do in the 21st century," he said.


[edit] 2006-01-10: "NATO will most likely expand again"

General James ("Jim") L. Jones - who serves both as the highest ranking military officer at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), NATO’s HQ, and as the commander of the United States European Command (EUCOM) - said this 2006-01-10:

  • "In my personal opinion, NATO will most likely expand again.
  • NATO will be more proactive and more involved in multinational joint operations.
  • It will cooperate more with other international institutions, to include the United Nations.
  • It will become involved in supra-interagency cooperation to face the new threats.
  • Operations such as Pakistan have shown that we are not just about classical warfighting. The Alliance will leverage this ability to produce results in the less-than-war spectrum of operations."

(Source: Global War on Terror and Future of NATO +)

[edit] April

[edit] Summits

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[edit] NATO Summit 2006

NATO Summit 2006 will take place in Riga, Latvia, November 2006.

[edit] NATO command-structure

NATOs headquarters are located in Brussels, Belgium.

[edit] NATO in the media

[edit] "We have moved on from the rather passive, territorial approach to security that was suitable in the past, to a much more active and functional approach."

(NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, 2005-12-19)

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[edit] "NATO will be more proactive and more involved in multinational joint operations."

[edit] NATO in Afghanistan

  • 2006-01-10: NATO calls for solidarity in mission in Afghanistan +
    • "Britain, Canada and the Netherlands were tipped to lead the operation. But in the Netherlands, strong opposition both in parliament and among the public to additional troops deployment is prolonging an indecision process."
    • "NATO foreign ministers endorsed a plan to extend the ISAF mission to the volatile south of Afghanistan."
    • "Paul Bremer, who led the U.S. civilian occupation authority in Iraq after the 2003 invasion, has warned that Dutch interests in the United States will be hurt if the Netherlands opts against sending more troops to Afghanistan, Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant reported Monday."
      • "I assume that from time to time decisions must be taken by the U.S. government, by U.S. Congress, which affect Dutch economic interests. It is not difficult to predict that decisions will be made that are not in the best interests of the Netherlands," said Bremer.
    • "De Hoop Scheffer on Monday also reached out for help beyond the alliance, stressing that ISAF is not only a NATO affair."
      • "NATO's efforts to create an environment of security and stability has to be complemented by the European Union, the Group of Eight most industrialized nations and individual donors, he said."
      • "Afghanistan was one of the priorities de Hoop Scheffer defined for 2006. The other two are the Riga NATO summit, and relations with partners, like Ukraine, Russia and the Balkan states."
      • "It's NATO's change; it's NATO's evolution; it's NATO having the means, the forces and the political stature and status to do what it's supposed to do in the 21st century," he said.

[edit] NATO in Iraq

Template:News about NATO in Iraq


[edit] "Operations such as Pakistan have shown that we are not just about classical warfighting."

Template:News about NATO in Pakistan

[edit] Foreign Policy

Template:Foreign NATO relations in the news

[edit] = November, 2006


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