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Similar to NATO, the CSTO maintains a Parliamentary Assembly. [6] CSTO employs a "rotating presidency" system in which the country leading the CSTO alternates every year. [7] In order to deploy military bases of a third country in the territory of the CSTO member-states, it is necessary to obtain the official consent of all its members. [8]
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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.
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In May 2013, Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili stated that his goal was to get a Membership Action Plan (MAP) for his country from NATO in 2014. [203] In June 2014, diplomats from NATO suggested that while a MAP was unlikely, a package of "reinforced cooperation" agreements was a possible compromise. [204]
Armenia's prime minister said it has frozen participation in all aspects of the CSTO, Putin's NATO rival, and doesn't plan to reengage.
It is a founding member of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), an alternative Russian-led military alliance. [11] NATO support for the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan (an ally of NATO member Turkey) in its dispute with Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh has led to tensions with the alliance. [12]