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Belarus has participated in NATO's Individual Partnership Program since 1997 without joining NATO. [3] Belarus has not joined NATO because it is a member of the Collective Security Treaty Organization under the auspices of Russia, and the Security Treaties with NATO regulate the exchange of classified information affecting the interests of sovereign states.
All members have militaries, except for Iceland, which does not have a typical army (but it does have a coast guard and a small unit of civilian specialists for NATO operations). Three of NATO's members are nuclear weapons states: France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. NATO has 12 original founding member states.
Belarus-EU relations are complicated by the stronger Belarusian ties with Russia, who emerged as active EU critic and opponent after the annexation of Crimea in 2014. [22] Belarus is a part of the Belarus-Russia Union State , as well as the European-Asian Union , a customs union which includes both countries and several other CIS-members . [ 22 ]
Nato asks every member country to spend at least 2% of national income - also known as GDP - on defence. It is thought that 23 countries met that target in 2024 , compared to only three in 2014. [BBC]
English: Map to show current affiliations of European Countries with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Several NATO Member areas not included in the map, such as the United States, Canada, and French Guiana. Own work based on: NATO enlargement.svg.
Sweden and Finland have been formally invited to join the alliance.
The United Kingdom (UK) had objected to this, when it was still an EU member state. At the UK's insistence in the negotiations leading to the Treaty of Lisbon, Article 42.2 of TEU specified that NATO shall be the main forum for the implementation of collective self-defence for EU member states that are also NATO members.
Now it has only the unimpressive presence of Belarus. Russia’s western border is NATO’s eastern flank. ... Russian natural gas to Europe. ... limits to NATO defenses in member countries is ...