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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]
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.
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. [157] [155] Bulgaria is a member of the Francophonie since 1993. [186] Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy played a role in the release of a Bulgarian nurse in the HIV trial in Libya.
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]
Further NATO air strikes helped bring the Yugoslav Wars to an end, resulting in the Dayton Agreement in November 1995. [60] 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.
French is an official language in 27 independent nations. French is also the second most geographically widespread language in the world after English , with about 50 countries and territories having it as a de jure or de facto official, administrative, or cultural language. [ 1 ]
All are part of the European Union (EU) and members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Each of the three countries has declared itself to be the restoration of the sovereign nation that had existed from 1918 to 1940, emphasizing their contention that Soviet domination over the Baltic states during the Cold War period had been an ...
In his letter to Johnson of March 7, 1966, de Gaulle confirms that France will remain a member of NATO because "France measures to what extent the defense solidarity thus established between fifteen free peoples of the West contributes to ensuring their security and, in particular, what essential role they play in this respect the United States ...