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Austria and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have a close relationship. Austria with Ireland, Cyprus and Malta are the only members of the European Union that are not members of NATO. Austria has had formal relations with NATO since 1995, when it joined the Partnership for Peace programme.
Cyprus is the only EU member state that is neither a NATO member state nor a member of the PfP program. The Parliament of Cyprus voted in February 2011 to apply for membership in the program, but President Demetris Christofias vetoed the decision, arguing that it would hamper his attempts to negotiate an end to the Cyprus dispute and demilitarize the island.
Three of NATO's members are nuclear weapons states: France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. NATO has 12 original founding member states. Three more members joined between 1952 and 1955, and a fourth joined in 1982. Since the end of the Cold War, NATO has added 16 more members from 1999 to 2024. [1]
Sweden and Finland have been formally invited to join the alliance.
English: Map of European relationships with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) through 2022. Member areas not included in the map include the United States, Canada, Greenland, and French Guiana.
Austria–NATO relations This page was last edited on 28 October 2022, at 12:57 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
For the second year in a row, a US armored brigade competed in the Strong Europe Tank Challenge against a range of European partners — and lost.
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 ...