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Here’s a have a look at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.
The group’s constitution states that the signing events will “seek to promote stability and well-being in the North Atlantic area,” and can “unite their efforts for collective defense and for the preservation of peace and security.”
April 4, 1949 – Established when 12 nations signal the North Atlantic Treaty in a ceremony in Washington, DC.
2014-present – The present secretary normal is Jens Stoltenberg, former prime minister of Norway.
March 31, 2022 – The secretary normal’s annual report is launched.
Albania (2009)
Belgium (1949)
Bulgaria (2004)
Canada (1949)
Croatia (2009)
Czech Republic (1999)
Denmark (1949)
Estonia (2004)
France (1949)
Germany (1955, as West Germany)
Greece (1952)
Hungary (1999)
Iceland (1949)
Italy (1949)
Latvia (2004)
Lithuania (2004)
Luxembourg (1949)
Montenegro (2017)
Netherlands (1949)
North Macedonia (2020)
Norway (1949)
Poland (1999)
Portugal (1949)
Romania (2004)
Slovakia (2004)
Slovenia (2004)
Spain (1982)
Turkey (1952)
United Kingdom (1949)
United States (1949)
April 4, 1949 – The 12 nations of Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the United States signal the North Atlantic Treaty in Washington, DC.
July 25, 1950 – First assembly of NATO Council Deputies in London. US Ambassador Charles M. Spofford is elected everlasting chairman.
December 19, 1950 – US General Dwight Eisenhower is appointed the primary supreme allied commander.
April 2, 1951 – Allied Command in Europe turns into operational with Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe in Roquencourt, close to Paris.
March 12, 1952 – Lord Ismay is known as the primary secretary normal of NATO and appointed vice chairman of the North Atlantic Council.
April 10, 1952 – Allied Command Atlantic turns into operational, headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia.
April 16, 1952 – NATO establishes its provisional headquarters in Paris on the Palais de Chaillot.
April 28, 1952 – First assembly of the North Atlantic Council in everlasting session in Paris.
May 6, 1952 – West Germany joins NATO.
May 14, 1955 – The Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc international locations kind the Warsaw Pact in response to West Germany becoming a member of NATO.
July 26, 1956 – Egypt nationalizes the Suez Canal. France and Great Britain use troops to intervene, towards the desires of the United States, inflicting a rift in NATO.
August 13, 1961 – The Berlin Wall is erected.
October 22-23, 1963 – NATO and the United States exhibit the dimensions and pace of emergency forces with 14,500 US troops flown into West Germany for maneuvers.
March 10, 1966 – France formally proclaims intentions to withdraw from the army construction of NATO, accusing the United States of getting an excessive amount of affect within the group.
March 31, 1967 – Opening ceremony of recent NATO headquarters in Casteau, close to Mons, Belgium.
August 14, 1974 – Greece, angered at NATO’s response to the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, withdraws from the army arm of NATO.
October 20, 1980 – Greece rejoins the NATO army construction.
May 30, 1982 – Spain joins NATO.
November 9, 1989 – The Berlin Wall comes down.
October 3, 1990 – Germany is reunified after 45 years. With German reunification, East Germany leaves the Warsaw Pact and is integrated into NATO.
1991 – The Warsaw Pact is dissolved.
December 13, 1991 – For the primary time, the Soviet Union takes half in conferences at NATO as a part of the North Atlantic Cooperation Council.
December 21, 1991 – Eleven of the republics of the previous Soviet Union create a brand new Commonwealth of Independent States.
December 25, 1991 – The Soviet Union is formally disbanded with the resignation of Mikhail Gorbachev as president and supreme commander-in-chief of Soviet Forces.
February 28, 1994 – NATO forces shoot down 4 Bosnian Serb planes violating the UN-imposed no-fly zone. It is the primary time NATO has used power.
November 21, 1995 – After the Dayton Peace Accords, the warfare in Bosnia Herzegovina ends.
December 20, 1995 – The United Nations turns over army operations command to NATO’s Implementation Force (IFOR).
January 13, 1996 – Russian troops are deployed to assist IFOR in Bosnia.
May 22, 1997 – NATO and the Russian Federation signal a safety and cooperation pact, the “Founding Act” which establishes a NATO-Russia Permanent Joint Council (PJC).
March 24, 1999 – NATO launches air strikes towards Yugoslavia to finish Serbian aggression within the Kosovo area.
April 4, 1999 – fiftieth anniversary of the founding of NATO.
August 22, 2001 – Operation Essential Harvest, the disarming of ethnic Albanians in Macedonia, begins.
September 12, 2001 – For the primary time, NATO invokes Article V, the Washington Treaty, its mutual protection clause, in assist of the United States after the September 11 terror assaults.
May 14, 2002 – The final assembly of the NATO-Russia Permanent Joint Council
May 28, 2002 – NATO and Russia kind the NATO-Russia Council (NRC), which makes Russia an affiliate member of the group. The NRC replaces the PJC that was established in 1997 by the NATO-Russia Founding Act.
November 21-22, 2002 – During the Prague Summit, NATO invitations seven former Eastern Bloc international locations, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia, to debate entry into the group.
December 4, 2002 – US Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz speaks earlier than NATO in Brussels and requests that member nations contribute forces to a possible marketing campaign in Iraq.
January 22, 2003 – France and Germany block dialogue on warfare preparations submitted by the United States. The US proposal included provisions for Turkey’s protection, the usage of NATO gear, and NATO’s postwar position in Iraq.
January 23, 2003 – Secretary General Lord Robertson proclaims his intention to step down in December.
February 10, 2003 – France, Germany and Belgium block a US request that NATO present Patriot missiles, Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) plane, and different gear to Turkey. The United States had made the request anticipating that Iraq will retaliate towards Turkey within the occasion of warfare. Turkey invokes article IV of the NATO constitution, which requires the group as an entire to debate safety threats to any member nation.
February 11, 2003 – A gathering to debate the standoff over Turkey’s protection preparations ends after 20 minutes with no decision.
February 16, 2003 – NATO comes up with three defensive plans for Turkey, within the occasion of a US warfare with Iraq:
– Deployment of NATO AWACS plane;
– NATO assist for the deployment of theatre missile defences for Turkey;
– NATO assist for potential deployment of Allied chemical and organic defenses.
February 19, 2003 – NATO deploys defensive help to Turkey within the type of missiles, chemical and organic protection mechanisms, and plane, within the occasion warfare with Iraq presses ahead.
January 5, 2004 – Jaap de Hoop Scheffer of the Netherlands turns into the brand new secretary normal.
March 29, 2004 – NATO is expanded from 19 to 26 members when seven nations, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia, take part an accession ceremony in Washington, DC. All are former communist states in Eastern Europe.
April 2, 2004 – First assembly of the NATO-Russian Council with 27 members.
August 10, 2004 – NATO AWACS start patrolling Greek airspace previous to the Olympic and Paralympic video games. NATO’s presence on the Olympics is nicknamed Distinguished Games and consists of AWACS and the Multinational Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear Task Force.
September 14, 2006 – Ukraine proclaims that it’s shelving its aspirations to affix NATO, as a consequence of opposition by the Ukrainian public and Russia.
April 2-4, 2008 – NATO leaders maintain a summit in Bucharest, Romania. Croatia and Albania are invited to affix the alliance.
June 17, 2008 – French President Nicolas Sarkozy proclaims France will quickly rejoin NATO’s army command, 40 years after it left.
April 3-4, 2009 – The twenty third NATO summit additionally marks NATO’s sixtieth anniversary. Events are held in Strasbourg, France and Kehl, Germany. During the summit, France rejoins NATO’s army command.
August 1, 2009 – Former Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen takes workplace because the twelfth secretary normal of NATO.
November 19, 2010 – NATO adopts the Strategic Concept “Active Engagement, Modern Defence” for the subsequent 10 years.
March 24, 2011 – NATO takes command of imposing a no-fly zone imposed on Libya by the United Nations.
March 29, 2011 – The Council of Europe guidelines NATO, amongst others, answerable for the 63 deaths from amongst 72 African immigrants left adrift for 2 weeks whereas making an attempt to succeed in European shores from Libya in March 2011.
May 19, 2012 – Demonstrators take to the streets of Chicago previous to the beginning of the NATO summit. Anti-NATO protests close to Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s dwelling give attention to the price of the summit to the town and metropolis price range cuts to psychological healthcare.
May 20-21, 2012 – The twenty fifth Summit is held in Chicago. During the summit, NATO accepts President Barack Obama’s timetable to finish the warfare in Afghanistan by 2014.
March 5, 2014 – In regards to the disaster in Ukraine, Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen proclaims that NATO has determined to “put the entire range of NATO-Russia cooperation under review” to ship “a clear message Russia’s actions have consequences.”
October 1, 2014 – Jens Stoltenberg turns into secretary normal.
December 2, 2015 – NATO extends an official invitation to Montenegro to affix the alliance.
February 11, 2016 – Secretary General Stoltenberg proclaims that NATO is deploying ships to the Aegean Sea to attempt to deter smugglers from trafficking migrants from Turkey to Greece.
June 5, 2017 – Montenegro formally turns into a member of NATO.
March 27, 2020 – North Macedonia formally joins NATO.
March 24, 2022 – NATO leaders challenge a joint assertion at a summit held in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Leaders name on President Vladimir Putin to withdraw Russian army forces, and name on Belarus to finish its complicity. They state that “any use by Russia of a chemical or biological weapon would be unacceptable and result in severe consequences.”
March 24, 2022 – Stoltenberg’s tenure is prolonged by one 12 months as a consequence of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It will finish September 30, 2023.
May 15, 2022 – At a joint press convention, leaders of Finland and Sweden announce their international locations’ intentions to affix NATO. The strikes danger scary the ire of Russia, as Putin, tells his Finnish counterpart Sauli Niinistö that abandoning army neutrality and becoming a member of the bloc can be a “mistake,” in response to a Kremlin assertion.