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Member, Cour des Comptes. Member of the European Parliament. President, European Movement in France Katharine Braddick United Kingdom Group Head of Strategic Policy and Senior Advisor to the chief executive officer, Barclays: Dame Nicola Brewer United Kingdom Non-Executive board member, Iberdrola. Non-Executive board member, Aggreko
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is an international military alliance consisting of 32 member states from Europe and North America. It was established at the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on 4 April 1949. Of the 32 member countries, 30 are in Europe and two are in North America.
The Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances comprises three substantially identical political agreements signed at the OSCE conference in Budapest, Hungary, on 5 December 1994, to provide security assurances by its signatories relating to the accession of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).
Military alliances shortly before World War I. Germany and the Ottoman Empire allied after the outbreak of war.. This is the list of military alliances.A military alliance is a formal agreement between two or more parties concerning national security in which the contracting parties agree to mutually protect and support one another militarily in case of a crisis that has not been identified in ...
The Trilateral Commission is a nongovernmental international organization aimed at fostering closer cooperation between Japan, Western Europe and North America. [1] It was founded in July 1973, principally by American banker and philanthropist David Rockefeller, an internationalist [2] who sought to address the challenges posed by the growing economic and political interdependence between the ...
The alliance has increased its NATO Response Force deployments in Eastern Europe, [9] and the combined militaries of all NATO members include around 3.5 million soldiers and personnel. [10] All member states together cover an area of 25.07 million km 2 (9.68 million sq mi) with a population of about 973 million people. [11]
A state can be formally recognised as such by becoming a member of the United Nations; there are currently 193 member states of the United Nations. The only non-UN states that undoubtedly meet the standard of statehood are the Cook Islands and Niue, who have had their "full treaty-making capacity" recognised by the United Nations Secretariat.
The role of the United States has caused some confusion; in discussions in the other member states, the Charter is often called the U.S.-Adriatic Charter. In September 2008 Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina were invited to join the Charter and joined on December 4, 2008. [1] Serbia accepted observer status at the same time. On 1 April 2009 ...