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The Slovak Fulbright Commission is a non-profit organization in Slovakia that provides scholarships, fellowships and counseling for Slovak students studying in the United States and American students in Slovakia. The Fulbright Commission was created in 1994 by treaty between the two countries. [1] It is based in Bratislava, Slovakia. [1]
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]
Slovakia has been an active participant in U.S.- and NATO-led military actions. There is a joint Czech-Slovak peacekeeping force in Kosovo. After the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack on the United States, the government opened its airspace to coalition planes.
After 1990, the system was changed, so that every school prepared its own tests and questions – at gymnasia in the subjects: Slovak incl. literature (written and oral), a foreign language (written and oral), two subjects of the student's choice (oral). The obvious problem of this system was low or missing comparability of the results.
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 ...
A referendum was held in Slovakia on 23 May and 24 May 1997. Voters in Slovakia were asked four separate questions: on whether the country should join NATO, whether nuclear weapons should be allowed in Slovakia, whether foreign military bases should be allowed in Slovakia, and whether the President should be elected directly.
Slovakia's government has just approved a plan to supply Ukraine with a fleet of 13 Soviet-era MiG-29 fighter jets, according to the Associated Press. ... Another NATO member country is now ...
Slovakia joined NATO on 29 March 2004. [5] From 2006 the army transformed into a fully professional organization and compulsory military service was abolished. [6] [7] [8] Slovak armed forces numbered 19,500 uniformed personnel and 4,208 civilians in 2022. [1] Slovak Armed Forces organization 2024 (click to enlarge)