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  2. Member states of NATO - Wikipedia

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    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]

  3. Austria–NATO relations - Wikipedia

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    Austria and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have a close relationship. Austria with Ireland, Cyprus and Malta are the only members of the European Union that are not members of NATO. Austria has had formal relations with NATO since 1995, when it joined the Partnership for Peace programme.

  4. Federal states of Austria - Wikipedia

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    Austria is a federal republic consisting of nine federal states. [a] The European Commission calls them provinces. [1]Austrian federal states can pass laws that stay within the limits of the constitution, and each federal state has representatives in the main Austrian parliament.

  5. Foreign relations of NATO - Wikipedia

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    Austria joined NATO's Partnership for Peace in 1995, and participates in NATO's Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council. The Austrian military also participates in the United Nations peacekeeping operations and has deployments in several countries as of 2022 [update] , including Kosovo , Lebanon , and Bosnia and Herzegovina , where it has led the ...

  6. Enlargement of NATO - Wikipedia

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    During the Cold War, NATO used radar facilities in Malta, which, like other non-NATO member European states, has generally cooperative relations with the organization. [ 267 ] When the North Atlantic Treaty was signed in 1949, the Mediterranean island of Malta was a dependent territory of the United Kingdom, one of the treaty's original ...

  7. North Atlantic Treaty - Wikipedia

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    Current NATO member states. The following twelve states signed the treaty and thus became the founding members of NATO. The following leaders signed the agreement as plenipotentiaries of their countries in Washington, D.C., on 4 April 1949: [7] [8] Belgium – Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak and Ambassador Baron Robert ...

  8. FACT CHECK: Did the Secretary General of NATO Threaten To ...

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    A post on X claims that Secretary General of the North American Treaty Organization (NATO) Mark Rutte said he will expel the U.S. from the organization if President-Elect Trump “surrenders ...

  9. NATO - Wikipedia

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    NATO is an alliance of 32 sovereign states and their individual sovereignty is unaffected by participation in the alliance. NATO has no parliaments, no laws, no enforcement, and no power to punish individual citizens. As a consequence of this lack of sovereignty the power and authority of a NATO commander are limited.