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Norway joined NATO on 4 April 1949 as a founding member, along with eleven other countries. [1] Norway committed an effort to NATO's intervention in Yugoslavia in 1999 and in Libya in 2011. [2] It also sent troops to Afghanistan after the September 11 attacks.
Three of NATO's members are nuclear weapons states: France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. NATO has 12 original founding member states. Three more members joined between 1952 and 1955, and a fourth joined in 1982. Since the end of the Cold War, NATO has added 16 more members from 1999 to 2024. [1]
For a third straight presidential election campaign, former President Donald Trump is being serially inaccurate about the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) military alliance.
Negotiations in London and Paris in 1954 ended the allied occupation of West Germany and allowed for its rearmament as a NATO member.. Twelve countries were part of NATO at the time of its founding: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Nato chief Mark Rutte echoes incoming US president Donald Trump's call for members to spend more.
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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs was established on the same day that Norway declared the dissolution of the union with Sweden: June 7, 1905. Although diplomats could not present credentials to foreign governments until the Swedish king formally renounced his right to the Norwegian throne, a number of unofficial representatives worked on the provisional government's behalf until the first ...
Italy’s 1.49% contribution is lower than the 1.54% it offered in 2021. Croatia was close to meeting its obligation in 2021 with 1.95% spending, a figure which shrank to 1.81% in 2024.