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NATO in 2025 . 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.
The U.S. has also signed a similar agreement with Romania and the U.S. military units deployed to both Bulgaria and Romania will be known as Joint Task Force East. [2] Joint US-Bulgarian military bases established according to the 2006 Defense Cooperation Agreement between the United States and Bulgaria: Bezmer Air Base in Yambol Province
Bulgaria has an embassy in Ankara, 2 general consulates in Istanbul and Edirne, and a chancellery in Bursa. [146] Turkey has an embassy in Sofia and 2 general consulates in Plovdiv and Burgas. [147] Both countries are full members of the Council of Europe and NATO. Bulgaria is an EU member and Turkey is an EU candidate. Bulgaria supports Turkey ...
Former U.S. President Richard Nixon and Elena Poptodorova during his visit to Varna, Bulgaria, July 1982 President Bill Clinton, the first acting U.S. President to visit Bulgaria, in front of Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Sofia, November 1999 U.S. president George W. Bush and Bulgarian president Georgi Parvanov, National Archaeological Museum, Sofia, June 2007 Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko ...
NATO has thirty-two members, mostly in Europe with two in North America. NATO's "area of responsibility", within which attacks on member states are eligible for an Article 5 response, is defined under Article 6 of the North Atlantic Treaty to include member territory in Europe, North America, Turkey, and islands in the North Atlantic north of ...
NATO global partners, or partners across the globe [1] are countries that cooperate with NATO on a regular basis, but are unable to join the alliance due to Article 10 restricting countries eligible to join the alliance to those in Europe.
The list includes all countries listed in the List of countries, the French overseas departments, the Spanish and Portuguese overseas regions and inhabited overseas dependencies. See List of extinct countries, empires, etc. and Former countries in Europe after 1815 for articles about countries that are no longer in existence.
In November 2002, NATO invited seven countries to join it via the MAP: Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. [127] All seven invitees joined in March 2004, which was observed at a flag-raising ceremony on 2 April. After that date, NATO numbered 26 allies. [128]