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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.
NATO's "area of responsibility", within which attacks on member states are eligible for an Article 5 response, is defined under Article 6 of the North Atlantic Treaty to include member territory in Europe, North America, Turkey, and islands in the North Atlantic north of the Tropic of Cancer.
Following his departure from national politics, Rutte succeeded Jens Stoltenberg as Secretary General of NATO on 1 October 2024 during a ceremonial handover at the NATO Headquarters in Brussels. [87] Despite having previously stated that he wanted to focus on high school teaching after his prime ministership, he announced his candidacy for the ...
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The United States permanent representative to NATO (commonly referred to as the U.S. ambassador to NATO) is the official representative of the United States mission to NATO. The representative has the rank of full ambassador and is appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate.
Stoltenberg at a NATO Plenary Session with US President Donald Trump and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson in December 2019. In March 2019, Stoltenberg stated that "Georgia will become a member of NATO". [85] In April 2019, Stoltenberg warned in a joint session of the U.S. Congress of the threat posed by Russia.
The structure of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is complex and multi-faceted. [1] The decision-making body is the North Atlantic Council (NAC), and the member state representatives also sit on the Defence Policy and Planning Committee (DPPC) and the Nuclear Planning Group (NPG).
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