NATO: India has received an offer for more engagement with NATO. US Ambassador Julian Smith has said that if India wants, the doors are open for it in NATO. In such a situation, let us know what NATO is and what it does.
NATO is the largest military organization in the world
NATO is the largest military alliance organization in the world. NATO was started on 4 April 1949 after the Second World War. Many countries of the world had to face heavy loss of life and property in the World War. In such a situation, all the countries were worried that such an incident should never happen again. To solve this problem, NATO was created at the end of the war. In which many countries shared their military force.
full form of nato
NATO came into the limelight even more when the talk of war between Russia and Ukraine started coming to the fore. Under the NATO organization, one country sends its army to another country and they are also given international training. The main purpose of NATO is to maintain peace in the world. The full form of NATO is North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It is also known as Atlantic Alliance. In Hindi, NATO is called ‘North Atlantic Treaty Organisation’.
helping each other when attacked
With the end of the second world in the year 1945, America and the Soviet Union emerged as a superpower. This increased the possibility of danger in Europe. Realizing the seriousness of this problem, many countries like France, Britain, Netherlands, Belgium made a treaty, under which if any country is attacked, other countries will provide military assistance to that country and at the same time it will be financially and socially Will also give support.
countries in nato
America offered the North Atlantic Treaty proposal under Article 15 of the Charter of the United Nations, this treaty was signed by 12 different countries of the world. Apart from America, many countries like Britain, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Belgium, Iceland, Luxembourg, France, Canada and Italy were included in the treaty. Spain, West Germany, Turkey and Greece later joined it shortly before the Cold War. After the end of the Cold War, the countries of Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic were also included in NATO. Apart from this, in the year 2004, 7 more countries took its membership. All the following 30 countries are included in this group –
- Albania
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Canada
- Croatia
- Czech republic
- Danish
- Estonia
- france
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Icelandic
- Italy
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Montenegro
- netherlands
- Macedonia
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Turkish
- united kingdom
- United States
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