Anti Nato Week Bucharest 2008 | 2nd - 4th April
A BRIEF OVERVIEW
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is a military alliance, established by the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on 4April 1949. With headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, the organization established a system of collective defense where by its member states agree to mutual defense inresponse to an attack by anyexternal party.
“The Parties of NATO agreed thatan armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all. Consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, eachof them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defence will assist the Party or Parties being attacked, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such actionas it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area. ”
The initial treaty was signed byBelgium, Netherlands,Luxembourg, France, UnitedKingdom, the United States ofAmerica, Italy, Norway, Denmarkand Iceland which were followedafter 3 years by Greece andTurkey. In 1954 Russia wanted tojoin NATO but was rejected by theNATO countries. In 1955 WestGermany was incorporated intoNATO, shortly after the WarsawPact was signed. The end of theCold War and the dissolution of theWarsaw Pact in 1991 removed thede facto main adversary of NATO.At the moment NATO includes thenext countries: Belgium, Canada,Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy,Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway,Portugal, United Kingdom, USA,Greece, Turkey, Germany, Spain,Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland,Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania,Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia.
With the re-evaluation of NATO’spurpose in post-Cold War we couldsee a still ongoing expansion ofNATO to Eastern Europe, as well asthe extension of its activities toareas that had not formerly beenNATO concerns. On 28 February1994, NATO took its first militaryaction, shooting down four BosnianSerb aircraft violating a U.N.-mandated no-fly zone over centralBosnia and Herzegovina. At theend of 1995 the war in Bosniaresulted in the Dayton Agreement,with the help of air strikes byNATO. On 24 March 1999, NATOsaw its first broad-scale militaryengagement in the Kosovo War,where it waged an 11-weekbombing campaign against whatwas then the Federal Republic ofI need help = ajutorgood, bad = bine, rauI am not guilty = nusunt vinovatI want to call my lawyer = vreau sasun avocatul.
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