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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.
Bulgaria is a full member of the Francophonie since 1993. Bulgaria has an embassy in Paris. France has an embassy in Sofia. Both countries are full members of the Council of Europe, the European Union and NATO. French president Nicolas Sarkozy helped in the liberation of the Bulgarian nurses who had been framed in the HIV trial in Libya.
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 ...
1994 Moldovan postage stamp dedicated to the Partnership for Peace. The Partnership for Peace (PfP; French: Partenariat pour la paix) is a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) program aimed at creating trust and cooperation between the member states of NATO and other states mostly in Europe, including post-Soviet states; 18 states are members. [1]
See Bulgaria–France relations. Bulgaria has an embassy in Paris; France has an embassy in Sofia. Both countries are full members of the European Union and NATO. [155] [153] Bulgaria is a member of the Francophonie since 1993. [184] Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy played a role in the release of a Bulgarian nurse in the HIV trial in Libya.
Further NATO air strikes helped bring the Yugoslav Wars to an end, resulting in the Dayton Agreement in November 1995. [59] As part of this agreement, NATO deployed a UN-mandated peacekeeping force, under Operation Joint Endeavor, named IFOR. Almost 60,000 NATO troops were joined by forces from non-NATO countries in this peacekeeping mission.
The deadly conflicts which broke out in the former Yugoslavia in 1991 were the opportunity for NATO to carry out military operations for the first time as the armed arm of the UN: military operations carried out under the aegis of the UN from 1992 quickly showed the limits of the WEU and the EU and required increasingly significant intervention ...
See Bulgaria–France relations. Bulgaria has an embassy in Paris. [219] France has an embassy in Sofia. [220] Both nations are members of the European Union, NATO and of the Council of Europe. Bulgaria is a full member of the Francophonie since 1993.