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NATO in 2024. 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.
Mongolia is a member of the United Nations, Asia Cooperation Dialogue, G77, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, Non-Aligned Movement and a NATO global partner. Mongolia joined the World Trade Organization in 1997 and seeks to expand its participation in regional economic and trade groups. [4]
Mongolia contributed personnel to the U.S.-led Iraq War as part of Multi-National Force – Iraq in 2003 [31] and has contributed to NATO-led operations in Kosovo from 2005–2007 and the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan from 2009-2014. [32] [33] Mongolia was recognized as a NATO global partner in 2012. [34]
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]
This is a list of heritage NATO country codes. Up to and including the seventh edition of STANAG 1059, these were two-letter codes (digrams). The eighth edition, promulgated 19 February 2004, and effective 1 April 2004, replaced all codes with new ones based on the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes. Additional codes cover gaps in the ISO coverage, deal ...
NATO member countries are treaty-bound to defend any member in the event of an armed attack. Hawley, who led the effort to overturn the 2020 electoral results in Congress that gave rise to the Jan ...
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NATO regularly scrambles jets to scope Russian flights, taking to the skies for more than 500 interceptions in 2022. The number dropped but was still more than 300 encounters in 2023, the Brussels ...