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NATO was established on 4 April 1949 via the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty (Washington Treaty). The 12 founding members of the Alliance were: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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English: Ratification map for the accession of Sweden to NATO. Countries that have ratified Sweden's accession to NATO are shown in yellow. Allied countries that haven't yet ratified Sweden's accession to NATO are shown in red.
Certain countries are further subdivided the United Kingdom has gb-gbn for Great Britain and gb-nir for Northern Ireland. Russia is divided into ru-kgd for the Kaliningrad Oblast and ru-main for the Main body of Russia.
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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 ...
Added Gotland since the island belongs to Sweden: 19:31, 5 April 2023: 616 × 247 (503 KB) Madelgarius: tentative de correction d'un bug (Finlande en hachuré) 13:29, 4 April 2023: 616 × 247 (503 KB) Chaotic Enby: Finland joined NATO today: 15:56, 14 September 2022: 616 × 247 (507 KB) Nahabino: Map color unification: 01:05, 13 May 2022: 2,754 ...
The Westernization trend of many former Soviet allied states led them to privatize their economies and formalize their relationships with NATO countries, the first step for many towards European integration and possible NATO membership. [32] [33] In December 1997, Russian President Boris Yeltsin described NATO expansion as a threat to Russia.