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Collective defence and Article 5. The principle of collective defence is at the very heart of NATO’s founding treaty. It remains a unique and enduring principle that binds its members together, committing them to protect each other and setting a spirit of solidarity within the Alliance. Collective defence means that an attack against one Ally ...
The definition of the territories to which Article 5 applies was revised by Article 2 of the Protocol to the North Atlantic Treaty on the accession of Greece and Turkey signed on 22 October 1951. On January 16, 1963, the North Atlantic Council noted that insofar as the former Algerian Departments of France were concerned, the relevant clauses ...
By invoking Article 5, NATO members showed their solidarity toward the United States and condemned, in the strongest possible way, the terrorist attacks against the United States. Taking action After 9/11, there were consultations among the Allies and collective action was decided by the Council.
Der Nordatlantikvertrag. Washington DC, 4. April 1949. Die Parteien dieses Vertrags bekräftigen erneut ihren Glauben an die Ziele und Grundsätze der Satzung der Vereinten Nationen und ihren Wunsch, mit allen Völkern und Regierungen in Frieden zu leben. Sie sind entschlossen, die Freiheit, das gemeinsame Erbe und die Zivilisation ihrer ...
Washington D.C. - 4 April 1949. The Parties to this Treaty reafirm their faith in the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations and their desire to live in peace with all peoples and all governments. They are determined to safeguard the freedom, common heritage and civilisation of their peoples, founded on the principles of ...
Each NATO member country needs to be resilient in order to withstand a major shock such as a natural disaster, failure of critical infrastructure, or a hybrid or armed attack. Resilience is the individual and collective capacity to prepare for, resist, respond to and quickly recover from shocks and disruptions, and to ensure the continuity of the Alliance’s activities. Civil preparedness is ...
Edgar Buckley describes how NATO invoked Article 5 on 12 September 2001, 24 hours after the terrorist attacks against the United States. I was chairing a meeting of NATO's Policy Coordination Group when news of the first plane hitting the World Trade Center came through. The executive secretary passed me a message to this effect.
Article 5 provides that if a NATO Ally is the victim of an armed attack, each and every other member of the Alliance will consider this act of violence as an armed attack against all members and will take the actions it deems necessary to assist the Ally attacked. Article 5. “The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them ...
Invocation of Article 5. Article 5 was invoked for the very first time following the Al-Qaeda terrorist attack on the United States on September 11, 2001. Once it had been proved that the attack had come from abroad, the North Atlantic Council (NAC) considered it to be an act covered by Article 5. Several measures were put into place by NATO to ...
For Nato, a serious cyberattack could trigger Article 5 of our founding treaty. This is our collective defence commitment where an attack against one ally is treated as an attack against all. We have designated cyberspace a domain in which Nato will operate and defend itself as effectively as it does in the air, on land, and at sea.