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STA
Approved

UPD
2012-03-23

DUT
NAVO

IND
3

MIS
An organization established by a treaty signed in 1949 by Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the UK, and the USA; Greece and Turkey acceded in 1952, West Germany in 1955, and Spain in 1982. Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary formally joined in 1999. Its headquarters is in Brussels. NATO was established as a military alliance to defend W Europe against Soviet aggression. The treaty commits the members to treat an armed attack on one of them as an attack on all of them, and for all to assist the country attacked by such actions as are deemed necessary ('NATO', Crystal Reference Encyclopedia. Accessed on 17 February 2003 at www.xreferplus.com/entry/947079).

PPN
294927662

UDC
341.241.4N

URL
http://www.nato.int

SN
Alliance of 26 countries from North America and Europe, established in 1949, whose aim is to safeguard the freedom and security of member countries by political and military means.

MRF
061.1NATO

BT1
international organizations

UF
North Atlantic Treaty Organization

RT
defence agreements

BSO
02.07 WORLD ORGANIZATIONS

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