NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed in Washington, D.C., USA on 4 April 1949.
NATO’s headquarters are located in Haren, Brussels, Belgium.
The Treaty of Brussels, signed on 17 March 1948 by Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, and the United Kingdom, is considered the precursor to the NATO agreement.
The first NATO Secretary General, Lord Ismay, stated in 1949 that the organization’s goal was “to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.
NATO has two official languages, English and French, defined in Article 14 of the North Atlantic Treaty.
Motto of NATO – ‘Anything that flies on anything that moves’
Membership- 28 member states
1 Albania
2 Bulgaria
3-Belgium
4-Croatia
5- Canada
6- Czech Republic
7- Denmark
8- Estonia
9 -France
10 -Greece
11 -Germany
12- Hungary
13- Iceland
14 -Italy
15- Latvia
16-Luxembourg
17 -Lithuania
18- Norway
19- Netherlands
20 – Portugal
21-Polands
22- Romania
23- Slovakias
24- Slovenia
25- Spain
26- Turkey
27- United States of America
28- United Kingdom