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By invoking Article 5, NATO members showed their solidarity toward the United States and condemned, in the strongest possible way, the terrorist attacks against the United States. Taking action After 9/11, there were consultations among the Allies and collective action was decided by the Council.
On 2 October, once the Council had been briefed on the results of investigations into the 9/11 attacks, it determined that they were regarded as an action covered by Article 5. By invoking Article 5, NATO members showed their solidarity toward the United States and condemned, in the strongest possible way, the terrorist attacks against the ...
The definition of the territories to which Article 5 applies was revised by Article 2 of the Protocol to the North Atlantic Treaty on the accession of Greece and Turkey signed on 22 October 1951. On January 16, 1963, the North Atlantic Council noted that insofar as the former Algerian Departments of France were concerned, the relevant clauses ...
For Nato, a serious cyberattack could trigger Article 5 of our founding treaty. This is our collective defence commitment where an attack against one ally is treated as an attack against all. We have designated cyberspace a domain in which Nato will operate and defend itself as effectively as it does in the air, on land, and at sea.
I first raised the possibility of a statement invoking Article 5 at a meeting in Günter Altenburg's office in the early evening. As Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs, Günter would also be involved in advising the Secretary General and we needed to be united. I took the text of the Washington Treaty with me.
Article 5 En 1949, l’objectif premier du Traité de l’Atlantique Nord – traité fondateur de l'OTAN – était de mettre en place un pacte d’assistance mutuelle visant à contrer le risque de voir l’Union soviétique étendre le contrôle qu’elle exerçait sur l’Europe orientale à d’autres parties du continent.
Allies have held consultations under Article 4 of the Washington Treaty. We will continue to take all measures and decisions required to ensure the security and defence of all Allies. We have deployed defensive land and air forces in the eastern part of the Alliance, and maritime assets across the NATO area.
The eventual wording of Article 5, with its obvious ambiguities and compromises, nonetheless met the dual criteria of European reassurance and US political acceptance. The area covered by the commitment included an attack "in Europe or North America" and, in Article 6, also included the Algerian departments of France.
In 2001, Allies invoked Article 5 of the Washington Treaty for the only time in NATO’s history and went to Afghanistan together with clear objectives: to confront al-Qaeda and those who attacked the United States on September 11, and to prevent terrorists from using Afghanistan as a safe haven to attack us.
Invocation of Article 5 confirmed Frank Taylor, the US Ambassador at Large and Co-ordinator for Counter-terrorism briefed the North Atlantic Council - NATO's top decision-making body- on 2 October on the results of investigations into the 11 September terrorist attacks against the United States.