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Type Military alliance
Location Washington, D.C.
Effective 24 August 1949; 73 years ago
Condition Ratification by the majority of the signatories including Belgium, Canada, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States
Parties

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  •  Albania
  •  Belgium
  •  Bulgaria
  •  Canada
  •  Croatia
  •  Czech Republic
  •  Denmark
  •  Estonia
  •  France
  •  Germany
  •  Greece
  •  Hungary
  •  Iceland
  •  Italy
  •  Latvia
  •  Lithuania
  •  Luxembourg
  •  Montenegro
  •  Netherlands
  •  North Macedonia
  •  Norway
  •  Poland
  •  Portugal
  •  Romania
  •  Slovakia
  •  Slovenia
  •  Spain
  •  Turkey
  •  United Kingdom
  •  United States
Depositary Government of the United States of America
Languages French, English
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The North Atlantic Treaty is the treaty that forms the legal basis of, and is implemented by, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The treaty was signed in Washington, D.C., on 4 April 1949.

Background[edit]

The treaty was signed in Washington, D.C., on 4 April 1949 by a committee which was chaired by US diplomat Theodore Achilles. Earlier secret talks had been held at the Pentagon between 22 March and 1 April 1948, of which Achilles said:

The talks lasted about two weeks and by the time they finished, it had been secretly agreed that there would be a treaty, and I had a draft of one in the bottom drawer of my safe. It was never shown to anyone except Jack [Hickerson]. I wish I had kept it, but when I left the Department in 1950, I dutifully left it in the safe and I have never been able to trace it in the archives. It drew heavily on the Rio Treaty, and a bit of the Brussels Treaty, which had not yet been signed, but of which we were being kept heavily supplied with drafts. The eventual North Atlantic Treaty had the general form, and a good bit of the language of my first draft, but with a number of important differences.[1]

According to Achilles, another important author of the treaty was John D. Hickerson:

More than any human being Jack was responsible for the nature, content, and form of the Treaty…It was a one-man Hickerson treaty.[1]

As a fundamental component of NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty is a product of the US’ desire to avoid overextension at the end of World War II, and consequently pursue multilateralism in Europe.[2] It is part of the US’ collective defense arrangement with Western European powers, following a long and deliberative process.[3] The treaty was created with an armed attack by the Soviet Union against Western Europe in mind,[4] although the mutual self-defense clause was never invoked during the Cold War.

By signing the North Atlantic Treaty, parties are «determined to safeguard the freedom, common heritage and civilization of the peoples, founded on the principles of democracy, individual liberty and the rule of law.»[5]

Members[edit]

Founding members[edit]

Current NATO member states

Animated map of NATO membership over time

The following twelve states signed the treaty and thus became the founding members of NATO. The following leaders signed the agreement as plenipotentiaries of their countries in Washington, D.C., on 4 April 1949:[6][7]

Non-founding members who joined before the dissolution of the Soviet Union[edit]

The following four states joined the treaty after the 12 founding states, but before the dissolution of the Soviet Union:

Members who joined after the dissolution of the Soviet Union[edit]

The following 14 states joined the treaty after the dissolution of the Soviet Union:

Withdrawal[edit]

No state has rescinded its membership but some dependencies of member states have not requested membership after becoming independent:

Articles[edit]

Article 1[edit]

Article 1 of the treaty states that member parties «settle any international disputes in which they may be involved by peaceful means in such a manner that international peace and security, and justice, are not endangered, and to refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force in any manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations.»[5]

Members seek to promote stability and well-being in the North Atlantic area through preservation of peace and security in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.[5]

Article 2[edit]

Article 2 of the treaty stipulates that «The Parties will contribute toward the further development of peaceful and friendly international relations by strengthening their free institutions, by bringing about a better understanding of the principles upon which these institutions are founded, and by promoting conditions of stability and well-being. They will seek to eliminate conflict in their international economic policies and will encourage economic collaboration between any or all of them.»[8] This is sometimes referred to as the «Canadian Clause» after Pearson pushed for its inclusion in the treaty.[9] This included proposals for a trade council, cultural program, technological sharing, and an information program. Of those, only the latter two were passed.[10][11] Nonetheless, it has been brought up by observers commenting on trade disputes between members.[12]

Article 3[edit]

Article 3 of the treaty states that «In order more effectively to achieve the objectives of this Treaty, the Parties, separately and jointly, by means of continuous and effective self-help and mutual aid, will maintain and develop their individual and collective capacity to resist armed attack.»[5]

Recently, this has been interpreted as the basis for the target for a 2% GDP expenditure rule,[13] which was established as a loose guideline in 2006.[14] This metric was confirmed again during the 2014 Wales summit.

It has also been used as a core concept for a mandate to strengthen member resilience: the ability to resist and recover from major disasters, failures in infrastructure, or traditional armed attack. This commitment was first accepted during the 2016 Warsaw summit, and further reiterated and clarified due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021.[15][16] Per NATO documents, this has been understood to include seven key areas:

  • Continuity of government during a crisis
  • Energy and power grid infrastructure resilience
  • Immigration control
  • Food and water security
  • Medical emergencies
  • Resilient civil communications
  • Effective transportation networks[17]

Article 4[edit]

Article 4 is generally considered the starting point for major NATO operations, and therefore is intended for either emergencies or situations of urgency. It officially calls for consultation over military matters when «the territorial integrity, political independence or security of any of the parties is threatened.»[18] Upon its invocation, the issue is discussed in the North Atlantic Council, and can formally lead into a joint decision or action (logistic, military, or otherwise) on behalf of the Alliance.[19] It has been officially invoked seven times since the alliance’s creation.[20]

Article 4 invocations

Nations Date Reason Outcome
Turkey Turkey February 2003 Iraq War.[20][21] Operation Display Deterrence.[22]
Turkey Turkey June 2012 The shooting down of a Turkish military jet by Syria.[20] Operation Active Fence.[23]
Turkey Turkey October 2012 Syrian forces shelling Turkish cities.[20]
Latvia Latvia[24]

Lithuania Lithuania[25]
Poland Poland[26]

March 2014 In response to the extraterritorial Crimean crisis. Deployment of littoral, naval, and air forces in the Black Sea by Romania, Bulgaria, and Turkey.[27] Condemnation and support for sanctions of member countries and international community.[28] Reform and medical aid to the Ukrainian government.[29] Creation of the NATO Enhanced Forward Presence.[30]
Turkey Turkey July 2015 In response to the 2015 Suruç bombing, which it attributed to ISIS, and other security issues along its southern border.[19][31][32][33]

Main article: 2015 NATO emergency meeting

Denouncement of the attack[33] and reassessment of NATO assets in Turkey.[34]

Turkey Turkey February 2020 Increasing tensions as part of the Northwestern Syria offensive, including suspected[35] Syrian and Russian airstrikes on Turkish troops.[36][20] Augmentation of Turkish air defences.[37][38]
Bulgaria Bulgaria

Czech Republic Czech Republic
Estonia Estonia
Latvia Latvia
Lithuania Lithuania
Poland Poland
Romania Romania
Slovakia Slovakia[39]

February 2022 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[40]

See also: 2022 Brussels summit

Defensive build-up,[41][42] matériel support to Ukraine,[43] and activation of the NRF.[44][45]

There have also been instances where Article 4 was not formally invoked, but instead threatened. In fact, this was viewed as one of the original intentions for Article 4: as a means to elevate issues and provide member nations a means of deterrence.[46] For example, in November 2021, the Polish foreign ministry—along with Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia—briefly considered triggering Article 4 due to the Belarusian migrant crisis, but it was not formally requested.[47][48]

On 15 November 2022, a missile struck the territory of Poland at the village of Przewodów near the border with Ukraine.[49][50][51] The incident occurred during an attack on Ukrainian cities and energy facilities by Russia.[52][53] It was the first incident of a missile hitting NATO territory during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[54][55] The NATO Secretary General talked with the Polish President and there was no call for an Article 4 convention,[56] although the government had been in talks to consider invoking it.[57]

Article 5[edit]

The key section of the treaty is Article 5. Its commitment clause defines the casus foederis. It commits each member state to consider an armed attack against one member state, in the areas defined by Article 6, to be an armed attack against them all. Upon such attack, each member state is to assist by taking «such action as [the member state] deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area.» The article has only been invoked once, but considered in a number of other cases.

September 11 attacks[edit]

It has been invoked only once in NATO history, after the September 11 attacks on the United States in 2001.[58][59] The invocation was confirmed on 4 October 2001, when NATO determined that the attacks were indeed eligible under the terms of the North Atlantic Treaty.[60] The eight official actions taken by NATO in response to the 9/11 attacks included Operation Eagle Assist and Operation Active Endeavour, a naval operation in the Mediterranean which was designed to prevent the movement of terrorists or weapons of mass destruction, as well as enhancing the security of shipping in general. Active Endeavour began on 4 October 2001.[61]

Threatened invocations[edit]

Article 5 Threats

Party Date Reason
Turkey Turkey June, 2012

Main article: 2012 Turkish F-4 Phantom shootdown

The downing of an «unarmed» Turkish military jet which was «13 sea miles» from Syria over «international waters» on a «solo mission to test domestic radar systems».[62][63] On 25 June, the Turkish Deputy Prime Minister said that he intended to raise Article 5.[64]

Turkey Turkey August, 2012

Main article: Tomb of Suleyman Shah § Events during the Syrian Civil War

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stated that «The tomb of Suleyman Shah [in Syria] and the land surrounding it is our territory. We cannot ignore any unfavorable act against that monument, as it would be an attack on our territory, as well as an attack on NATO land… Everyone knows his duty, and will continue to do what is necessary».[65]

NATO NATO June, 2015 Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg[66][67] in an off-the-record interview with an official source, that «Entirely legal activities, such as running a pro-Moscow TV station, could become a broader assault on a country that would require a NATO response under Article Five of the Treaty… A final strategy is expected in October 2015.»[68][failed verification]
United Kingdom United Kingdom August, 2022

Main article: Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant crisis

Chair of the Defence Select Committee of the United Kingdom Tobias Ellwood said that any deliberate attack against the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine that could cause radiation leaks would be a breach of Article 5. This statement was released over fears that a nuclear catastrophe could occur in the Russian-occupied plant during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. The next day, American congressman Adam Kinzinger said that any radiation leak into NATO countries would kill people, which would be an automatic activation of Article 5.[69]

Albania Albania October, 2022

Main article: Albania–Iran relations

Albanian prime minister Edi Rama revealed that his government had considered invoking Article 5 in response to a major cyberattack on 15 July 2022 targeting critical and government infrastructure, widely believed to have been carried out on behalf of Iran by state–affiliated cybercriminals.[70][71]

Article 6[edit]

Article 6 states that Article 5 covers only member states’ territories in Europe, North America, Turkey, and islands in the Atlantic north of the Tropic of Cancer.

It was the opinion in August 1965 of the US State Department, the US Defense Department, and the legal division of NATO that an attack on the U.S. state of Hawaii would not trigger the treaty, but an attack on the other 49 would.[72]
The Spanish cities of Ceuta and Melilla on the North African shore are thus not under NATO protection in spite of Moroccan claims to them.
Legal experts have interpreted that other articles could cover the Spanish North African cities but this take has not been tested in practice.[73] This is also why events such as the Balyun airstrikes did not trigger Article 5, as the Turkish troops that were attacked were in Syria, not Turkey.[74]

On 16 April 2003, NATO agreed to take command of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan, which includes troops from 42 countries. The decision came at the request of Germany and the Netherlands, the two states leading ISAF at the time of the agreement, and all nineteen NATO ambassadors approved it unanimously. The handover of control to NATO took place on 11 August, and marked the first time in NATO’s history that it took charge of a mission outside of the area delineated by Article 6.[75]

Articles 7 and 8[edit]

In the case of any contradiction with other international obligations (with the exception of the United Nations, which by Article 7 supersedes NATO), or in military conflict of two NATO members, Article 8 comes into force. This is most important in cases should one member engage in military action against another member, upon which the offending members would be held in abeyance of the treaty and thereby NATO protection as a whole. This has not occurred yet, but there have been several militarised disputes between NATO allies that have threatened this:

NATO Militarised Interstate Conflicts

Date Belligerents Conflict
1958–1961, 1972–73 and 1975–76  Belgium  United Kingdom  West Germany  Iceland Cod Wars
1974  Greece  Turkey Turkish invasion of Cyprus
1994-1996  Canada  Spain Turbot War
1992–Present  Greece  Turkey The Aegean Dispute

If an intra-NATO conflict were to occur, there exist intra-NATO alliances which would be triggered instead in the instance of the abeyance. The following is a list of such active, intra-NATO military alliances.

Intra-NATO Military Alliances

Members Name
 Portugal  United Kingdom Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of 1373
 France  United Kingdom Lancaster House Treaties
 France  Greece Franco-Greek defence agreement
 Greece  United States Mutual Defense Cooperation Agreement[76][77][78]

Article 9[edit]

Establishes the North Atlantic Council, and is the only NATO body that derives its authority directly from the treaty. Its primary objectives as stated in the treaty is the enforcement of Article 3 and Article 5.

Article 10[edit]

Article 10 dictates the process by which other countries may join NATO, which is by unanimous agreement by current NATO members. Further, new NATO members can only consist of other European nations. In practice, this has turned into a set of action plans which an aspiring nation must follow in order to become a member, including the Membership Action Plan (MAP) mechanism[79] and Intensified Dialogue formula.[80]

Article 11[edit]

Article 11 indicated the process of the initial ratification of the treaty. Each signatory nation was required to ratify the treaty through their respective constitutional processes. In order to come into force, the treaty had to be ratified by Belgium, Canada, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Article 12[edit]

Article 12 states the process by which the treaty may be amended, provided such amendments still affect the North Atlantic area and do not violate the Charter of the United Nations. In practice, this has only been used to clearly delineate which territories are under the purview of NATO.

Article 13[edit]

Article 13 delimits the process by which a member leaves NATO, which simply consists of a one-year notice by the member nation to the U.S. government, who then promulgates the notice to the other member nations. This has been contemplated by many member nations, but so far has not happened aside from withdrawals due to independence of former territories or dependencies (namely, Algeria, Malta, and Cyprus).

Otherwise, the next closest option for a member nation is to instead withdraw from NATO’s military command structure, but not from NATO entirely. This happened with France in 1966, who rejoined in 2009; and happened with Greece in 1974, who still remains absent.

Article 14[edit]

Article 14 notes the official languages of NATO as English and French, and that the United States government shall promulgate copies of the treaty to the other member nations.

Changes since signing[edit]

Three official footnotes have been released to reflect the changes made since the treaty was written:[81]

Regarding Article 6:

  • 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.

Regarding Article 6:

  • On 16 January 1963, the North Atlantic Council noted that insofar as the former Algerian Departments of France were concerned, the relevant clauses of this Treaty had become inapplicable as from 3 July 1962.

Regarding Article 11:

  • The Treaty came into force on 24 August 1949, after the deposition of the ratifications of all signatory states.

See also[edit]

  • NATO
  • Warsaw Pact
  • Treaty of Brussels
    • Western Union
  • 2001 Sino-Russian Treaty of Friendship
  • September 11 attacks
  • Syrian Civil War
  • Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant crisis
  • Albania-Iran relations#Cyberattack and severed ties
  • 2021-2022 Belarus-European Union border crisis
  • North Atlantic Council
  • Enlargement of NATO#Article 10
  • Withdrawal from NATO
  • Aegean dispute
  • Turbot War
  • Turkish invasion of Cyprus
  • Cod Wars
  • 2014 Wales summit
  • 2015 NATO emergency meeting
  • 2016 Warsaw summit
  • 2022 Brussels summit
  • 2022 missile explosion in Poland
  • Operation Active Fence
  • Operation Display Deterrence
  • Operation Eagle Assist
  • Operation Active Endeavor
  • NATO Enhanced Forward Presence
  • NATO Response Force

Explanatory notes[edit]

  1. ^ Joined as Kingdom of Greece.
  2. ^ Joined as West Germany. After reunification in 1990, the former East German territory became covered by NATO protection.

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Further reading[edit]

  • Watry, David M. (2014). Diplomacy at the Brink: Eisenhower, Churchill, and Eden in the Cold War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.

External links[edit]

Wikisource has original text related to this article:

  • Official text
  • «NATO Declassified – The Founding Treaty».

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North Atlantic Treaty

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Type Military alliance
Location Washington, D.C.
Effective 24 August 1949; 73 years ago
Condition Ratification by the majority of the signatories including Belgium, Canada, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States
Parties

30

  •  Albania
  •  Belgium
  •  Bulgaria
  •  Canada
  •  Croatia
  •  Czech Republic
  •  Denmark
  •  Estonia
  •  France
  •  Germany
  •  Greece
  •  Hungary
  •  Iceland
  •  Italy
  •  Latvia
  •  Lithuania
  •  Luxembourg
  •  Montenegro
  •  Netherlands
  •  North Macedonia
  •  Norway
  •  Poland
  •  Portugal
  •  Romania
  •  Slovakia
  •  Slovenia
  •  Spain
  •  Turkey
  •  United Kingdom
  •  United States
Depositary Government of the United States of America
Languages French, English
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The North Atlantic Treaty is the treaty that forms the legal basis of, and is implemented by, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The treaty was signed in Washington, D.C., on 4 April 1949.

Background[edit]

The treaty was signed in Washington, D.C., on 4 April 1949 by a committee which was chaired by US diplomat Theodore Achilles. Earlier secret talks had been held at the Pentagon between 22 March and 1 April 1948, of which Achilles said:

The talks lasted about two weeks and by the time they finished, it had been secretly agreed that there would be a treaty, and I had a draft of one in the bottom drawer of my safe. It was never shown to anyone except Jack [Hickerson]. I wish I had kept it, but when I left the Department in 1950, I dutifully left it in the safe and I have never been able to trace it in the archives. It drew heavily on the Rio Treaty, and a bit of the Brussels Treaty, which had not yet been signed, but of which we were being kept heavily supplied with drafts. The eventual North Atlantic Treaty had the general form, and a good bit of the language of my first draft, but with a number of important differences.[1]

According to Achilles, another important author of the treaty was John D. Hickerson:

More than any human being Jack was responsible for the nature, content, and form of the Treaty…It was a one-man Hickerson treaty.[1]

As a fundamental component of NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty is a product of the US’ desire to avoid overextension at the end of World War II, and consequently pursue multilateralism in Europe.[2] It is part of the US’ collective defense arrangement with Western European powers, following a long and deliberative process.[3] The treaty was created with an armed attack by the Soviet Union against Western Europe in mind,[4] although the mutual self-defense clause was never invoked during the Cold War.

By signing the North Atlantic Treaty, parties are «determined to safeguard the freedom, common heritage and civilization of the peoples, founded on the principles of democracy, individual liberty and the rule of law.»[5]

Members[edit]

Founding members[edit]

Current NATO member states

Animated map of NATO membership over time

The following twelve states signed the treaty and thus became the founding members of NATO. The following leaders signed the agreement as plenipotentiaries of their countries in Washington, D.C., on 4 April 1949:[6][7]

Non-founding members who joined before the dissolution of the Soviet Union[edit]

The following four states joined the treaty after the 12 founding states, but before the dissolution of the Soviet Union:

Members who joined after the dissolution of the Soviet Union[edit]

The following 14 states joined the treaty after the dissolution of the Soviet Union:

Withdrawal[edit]

No state has rescinded its membership but some dependencies of member states have not requested membership after becoming independent:

Articles[edit]

Article 1[edit]

Article 1 of the treaty states that member parties «settle any international disputes in which they may be involved by peaceful means in such a manner that international peace and security, and justice, are not endangered, and to refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force in any manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations.»[5]

Members seek to promote stability and well-being in the North Atlantic area through preservation of peace and security in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.[5]

Article 2[edit]

Article 2 of the treaty stipulates that «The Parties will contribute toward the further development of peaceful and friendly international relations by strengthening their free institutions, by bringing about a better understanding of the principles upon which these institutions are founded, and by promoting conditions of stability and well-being. They will seek to eliminate conflict in their international economic policies and will encourage economic collaboration between any or all of them.»[8] This is sometimes referred to as the «Canadian Clause» after Pearson pushed for its inclusion in the treaty.[9] This included proposals for a trade council, cultural program, technological sharing, and an information program. Of those, only the latter two were passed.[10][11] Nonetheless, it has been brought up by observers commenting on trade disputes between members.[12]

Article 3[edit]

Article 3 of the treaty states that «In order more effectively to achieve the objectives of this Treaty, the Parties, separately and jointly, by means of continuous and effective self-help and mutual aid, will maintain and develop their individual and collective capacity to resist armed attack.»[5]

Recently, this has been interpreted as the basis for the target for a 2% GDP expenditure rule,[13] which was established as a loose guideline in 2006.[14] This metric was confirmed again during the 2014 Wales summit.

It has also been used as a core concept for a mandate to strengthen member resilience: the ability to resist and recover from major disasters, failures in infrastructure, or traditional armed attack. This commitment was first accepted during the 2016 Warsaw summit, and further reiterated and clarified due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021.[15][16] Per NATO documents, this has been understood to include seven key areas:

  • Continuity of government during a crisis
  • Energy and power grid infrastructure resilience
  • Immigration control
  • Food and water security
  • Medical emergencies
  • Resilient civil communications
  • Effective transportation networks[17]

Article 4[edit]

Article 4 is generally considered the starting point for major NATO operations, and therefore is intended for either emergencies or situations of urgency. It officially calls for consultation over military matters when «the territorial integrity, political independence or security of any of the parties is threatened.»[18] Upon its invocation, the issue is discussed in the North Atlantic Council, and can formally lead into a joint decision or action (logistic, military, or otherwise) on behalf of the Alliance.[19] It has been officially invoked seven times since the alliance’s creation.[20]

Article 4 invocations

Nations Date Reason Outcome
Turkey Turkey February 2003 Iraq War.[20][21] Operation Display Deterrence.[22]
Turkey Turkey June 2012 The shooting down of a Turkish military jet by Syria.[20] Operation Active Fence.[23]
Turkey Turkey October 2012 Syrian forces shelling Turkish cities.[20]
Latvia Latvia[24]

Lithuania Lithuania[25]
Poland Poland[26]

March 2014 In response to the extraterritorial Crimean crisis. Deployment of littoral, naval, and air forces in the Black Sea by Romania, Bulgaria, and Turkey.[27] Condemnation and support for sanctions of member countries and international community.[28] Reform and medical aid to the Ukrainian government.[29] Creation of the NATO Enhanced Forward Presence.[30]
Turkey Turkey July 2015 In response to the 2015 Suruç bombing, which it attributed to ISIS, and other security issues along its southern border.[19][31][32][33]

Main article: 2015 NATO emergency meeting

Denouncement of the attack[33] and reassessment of NATO assets in Turkey.[34]

Turkey Turkey February 2020 Increasing tensions as part of the Northwestern Syria offensive, including suspected[35] Syrian and Russian airstrikes on Turkish troops.[36][20] Augmentation of Turkish air defences.[37][38]
Bulgaria Bulgaria

Czech Republic Czech Republic
Estonia Estonia
Latvia Latvia
Lithuania Lithuania
Poland Poland
Romania Romania
Slovakia Slovakia[39]

February 2022 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[40]

See also: 2022 Brussels summit

Defensive build-up,[41][42] matériel support to Ukraine,[43] and activation of the NRF.[44][45]

There have also been instances where Article 4 was not formally invoked, but instead threatened. In fact, this was viewed as one of the original intentions for Article 4: as a means to elevate issues and provide member nations a means of deterrence.[46] For example, in November 2021, the Polish foreign ministry—along with Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia—briefly considered triggering Article 4 due to the Belarusian migrant crisis, but it was not formally requested.[47][48]

On 15 November 2022, a missile struck the territory of Poland at the village of Przewodów near the border with Ukraine.[49][50][51] The incident occurred during an attack on Ukrainian cities and energy facilities by Russia.[52][53] It was the first incident of a missile hitting NATO territory during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[54][55] The NATO Secretary General talked with the Polish President and there was no call for an Article 4 convention,[56] although the government had been in talks to consider invoking it.[57]

Article 5[edit]

The key section of the treaty is Article 5. Its commitment clause defines the casus foederis. It commits each member state to consider an armed attack against one member state, in the areas defined by Article 6, to be an armed attack against them all. Upon such attack, each member state is to assist by taking «such action as [the member state] deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area.» The article has only been invoked once, but considered in a number of other cases.

September 11 attacks[edit]

It has been invoked only once in NATO history, after the September 11 attacks on the United States in 2001.[58][59] The invocation was confirmed on 4 October 2001, when NATO determined that the attacks were indeed eligible under the terms of the North Atlantic Treaty.[60] The eight official actions taken by NATO in response to the 9/11 attacks included Operation Eagle Assist and Operation Active Endeavour, a naval operation in the Mediterranean which was designed to prevent the movement of terrorists or weapons of mass destruction, as well as enhancing the security of shipping in general. Active Endeavour began on 4 October 2001.[61]

Threatened invocations[edit]

Article 5 Threats

Party Date Reason
Turkey Turkey June, 2012

Main article: 2012 Turkish F-4 Phantom shootdown

The downing of an «unarmed» Turkish military jet which was «13 sea miles» from Syria over «international waters» on a «solo mission to test domestic radar systems».[62][63] On 25 June, the Turkish Deputy Prime Minister said that he intended to raise Article 5.[64]

Turkey Turkey August, 2012

Main article: Tomb of Suleyman Shah § Events during the Syrian Civil War

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stated that «The tomb of Suleyman Shah [in Syria] and the land surrounding it is our territory. We cannot ignore any unfavorable act against that monument, as it would be an attack on our territory, as well as an attack on NATO land… Everyone knows his duty, and will continue to do what is necessary».[65]

NATO NATO June, 2015 Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg[66][67] in an off-the-record interview with an official source, that «Entirely legal activities, such as running a pro-Moscow TV station, could become a broader assault on a country that would require a NATO response under Article Five of the Treaty… A final strategy is expected in October 2015.»[68][failed verification]
United Kingdom United Kingdom August, 2022

Main article: Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant crisis

Chair of the Defence Select Committee of the United Kingdom Tobias Ellwood said that any deliberate attack against the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine that could cause radiation leaks would be a breach of Article 5. This statement was released over fears that a nuclear catastrophe could occur in the Russian-occupied plant during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. The next day, American congressman Adam Kinzinger said that any radiation leak into NATO countries would kill people, which would be an automatic activation of Article 5.[69]

Albania Albania October, 2022

Main article: Albania–Iran relations

Albanian prime minister Edi Rama revealed that his government had considered invoking Article 5 in response to a major cyberattack on 15 July 2022 targeting critical and government infrastructure, widely believed to have been carried out on behalf of Iran by state–affiliated cybercriminals.[70][71]

Article 6[edit]

Article 6 states that Article 5 covers only member states’ territories in Europe, North America, Turkey, and islands in the Atlantic north of the Tropic of Cancer.

It was the opinion in August 1965 of the US State Department, the US Defense Department, and the legal division of NATO that an attack on the U.S. state of Hawaii would not trigger the treaty, but an attack on the other 49 would.[72]
The Spanish cities of Ceuta and Melilla on the North African shore are thus not under NATO protection in spite of Moroccan claims to them.
Legal experts have interpreted that other articles could cover the Spanish North African cities but this take has not been tested in practice.[73] This is also why events such as the Balyun airstrikes did not trigger Article 5, as the Turkish troops that were attacked were in Syria, not Turkey.[74]

On 16 April 2003, NATO agreed to take command of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan, which includes troops from 42 countries. The decision came at the request of Germany and the Netherlands, the two states leading ISAF at the time of the agreement, and all nineteen NATO ambassadors approved it unanimously. The handover of control to NATO took place on 11 August, and marked the first time in NATO’s history that it took charge of a mission outside of the area delineated by Article 6.[75]

Articles 7 and 8[edit]

In the case of any contradiction with other international obligations (with the exception of the United Nations, which by Article 7 supersedes NATO), or in military conflict of two NATO members, Article 8 comes into force. This is most important in cases should one member engage in military action against another member, upon which the offending members would be held in abeyance of the treaty and thereby NATO protection as a whole. This has not occurred yet, but there have been several militarised disputes between NATO allies that have threatened this:

NATO Militarised Interstate Conflicts

Date Belligerents Conflict
1958–1961, 1972–73 and 1975–76  Belgium  United Kingdom  West Germany  Iceland Cod Wars
1974  Greece  Turkey Turkish invasion of Cyprus
1994-1996  Canada  Spain Turbot War
1992–Present  Greece  Turkey The Aegean Dispute

If an intra-NATO conflict were to occur, there exist intra-NATO alliances which would be triggered instead in the instance of the abeyance. The following is a list of such active, intra-NATO military alliances.

Intra-NATO Military Alliances

Members Name
 Portugal  United Kingdom Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of 1373
 France  United Kingdom Lancaster House Treaties
 France  Greece Franco-Greek defence agreement
 Greece  United States Mutual Defense Cooperation Agreement[76][77][78]

Article 9[edit]

Establishes the North Atlantic Council, and is the only NATO body that derives its authority directly from the treaty. Its primary objectives as stated in the treaty is the enforcement of Article 3 and Article 5.

Article 10[edit]

Article 10 dictates the process by which other countries may join NATO, which is by unanimous agreement by current NATO members. Further, new NATO members can only consist of other European nations. In practice, this has turned into a set of action plans which an aspiring nation must follow in order to become a member, including the Membership Action Plan (MAP) mechanism[79] and Intensified Dialogue formula.[80]

Article 11[edit]

Article 11 indicated the process of the initial ratification of the treaty. Each signatory nation was required to ratify the treaty through their respective constitutional processes. In order to come into force, the treaty had to be ratified by Belgium, Canada, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Article 12[edit]

Article 12 states the process by which the treaty may be amended, provided such amendments still affect the North Atlantic area and do not violate the Charter of the United Nations. In practice, this has only been used to clearly delineate which territories are under the purview of NATO.

Article 13[edit]

Article 13 delimits the process by which a member leaves NATO, which simply consists of a one-year notice by the member nation to the U.S. government, who then promulgates the notice to the other member nations. This has been contemplated by many member nations, but so far has not happened aside from withdrawals due to independence of former territories or dependencies (namely, Algeria, Malta, and Cyprus).

Otherwise, the next closest option for a member nation is to instead withdraw from NATO’s military command structure, but not from NATO entirely. This happened with France in 1966, who rejoined in 2009; and happened with Greece in 1974, who still remains absent.

Article 14[edit]

Article 14 notes the official languages of NATO as English and French, and that the United States government shall promulgate copies of the treaty to the other member nations.

Changes since signing[edit]

Three official footnotes have been released to reflect the changes made since the treaty was written:[81]

Regarding Article 6:

  • 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.

Regarding Article 6:

  • On 16 January 1963, the North Atlantic Council noted that insofar as the former Algerian Departments of France were concerned, the relevant clauses of this Treaty had become inapplicable as from 3 July 1962.

Regarding Article 11:

  • The Treaty came into force on 24 August 1949, after the deposition of the ratifications of all signatory states.

See also[edit]

  • NATO
  • Warsaw Pact
  • Treaty of Brussels
    • Western Union
  • 2001 Sino-Russian Treaty of Friendship
  • September 11 attacks
  • Syrian Civil War
  • Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant crisis
  • Albania-Iran relations#Cyberattack and severed ties
  • 2021-2022 Belarus-European Union border crisis
  • North Atlantic Council
  • Enlargement of NATO#Article 10
  • Withdrawal from NATO
  • Aegean dispute
  • Turbot War
  • Turkish invasion of Cyprus
  • Cod Wars
  • 2014 Wales summit
  • 2015 NATO emergency meeting
  • 2016 Warsaw summit
  • 2022 Brussels summit
  • 2022 missile explosion in Poland
  • Operation Active Fence
  • Operation Display Deterrence
  • Operation Eagle Assist
  • Operation Active Endeavor
  • NATO Enhanced Forward Presence
  • NATO Response Force

Explanatory notes[edit]

  1. ^ Joined as Kingdom of Greece.
  2. ^ Joined as West Germany. After reunification in 1990, the former East German territory became covered by NATO protection.

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Further reading[edit]

  • Watry, David M. (2014). Diplomacy at the Brink: Eisenhower, Churchill, and Eden in the Cold War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.

External links[edit]

Wikisource has original text related to this article:

  • Official text
  • «NATO Declassified – The Founding Treaty».

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North Atlantic Treaty

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Type Military alliance
Location Washington, D.C.
Effective 24 August 1949; 73 years ago
Condition Ratification by the majority of the signatories including Belgium, Canada, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States
Parties

30

  •  Albania
  •  Belgium
  •  Bulgaria
  •  Canada
  •  Croatia
  •  Czech Republic
  •  Denmark
  •  Estonia
  •  France
  •  Germany
  •  Greece
  •  Hungary
  •  Iceland
  •  Italy
  •  Latvia
  •  Lithuania
  •  Luxembourg
  •  Montenegro
  •  Netherlands
  •  North Macedonia
  •  Norway
  •  Poland
  •  Portugal
  •  Romania
  •  Slovakia
  •  Slovenia
  •  Spain
  •  Turkey
  •  United Kingdom
  •  United States
Depositary Government of the United States of America
Languages French, English
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The North Atlantic Treaty is the treaty that forms the legal basis of, and is implemented by, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The treaty was signed in Washington, D.C., on 4 April 1949.

Background[edit]

The treaty was signed in Washington, D.C., on 4 April 1949 by a committee which was chaired by US diplomat Theodore Achilles. Earlier secret talks had been held at the Pentagon between 22 March and 1 April 1948, of which Achilles said:

The talks lasted about two weeks and by the time they finished, it had been secretly agreed that there would be a treaty, and I had a draft of one in the bottom drawer of my safe. It was never shown to anyone except Jack [Hickerson]. I wish I had kept it, but when I left the Department in 1950, I dutifully left it in the safe and I have never been able to trace it in the archives. It drew heavily on the Rio Treaty, and a bit of the Brussels Treaty, which had not yet been signed, but of which we were being kept heavily supplied with drafts. The eventual North Atlantic Treaty had the general form, and a good bit of the language of my first draft, but with a number of important differences.[1]

According to Achilles, another important author of the treaty was John D. Hickerson:

More than any human being Jack was responsible for the nature, content, and form of the Treaty…It was a one-man Hickerson treaty.[1]

As a fundamental component of NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty is a product of the US’ desire to avoid overextension at the end of World War II, and consequently pursue multilateralism in Europe.[2] It is part of the US’ collective defense arrangement with Western European powers, following a long and deliberative process.[3] The treaty was created with an armed attack by the Soviet Union against Western Europe in mind,[4] although the mutual self-defense clause was never invoked during the Cold War.

By signing the North Atlantic Treaty, parties are «determined to safeguard the freedom, common heritage and civilization of the peoples, founded on the principles of democracy, individual liberty and the rule of law.»[5]

Members[edit]

Founding members[edit]

Current NATO member states

Animated map of NATO membership over time

The following twelve states signed the treaty and thus became the founding members of NATO. The following leaders signed the agreement as plenipotentiaries of their countries in Washington, D.C., on 4 April 1949:[6][7]

Non-founding members who joined before the dissolution of the Soviet Union[edit]

The following four states joined the treaty after the 12 founding states, but before the dissolution of the Soviet Union:

Members who joined after the dissolution of the Soviet Union[edit]

The following 14 states joined the treaty after the dissolution of the Soviet Union:

Withdrawal[edit]

No state has rescinded its membership but some dependencies of member states have not requested membership after becoming independent:

Articles[edit]

Article 1[edit]

Article 1 of the treaty states that member parties «settle any international disputes in which they may be involved by peaceful means in such a manner that international peace and security, and justice, are not endangered, and to refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force in any manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations.»[5]

Members seek to promote stability and well-being in the North Atlantic area through preservation of peace and security in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.[5]

Article 2[edit]

Article 2 of the treaty stipulates that «The Parties will contribute toward the further development of peaceful and friendly international relations by strengthening their free institutions, by bringing about a better understanding of the principles upon which these institutions are founded, and by promoting conditions of stability and well-being. They will seek to eliminate conflict in their international economic policies and will encourage economic collaboration between any or all of them.»[8] This is sometimes referred to as the «Canadian Clause» after Pearson pushed for its inclusion in the treaty.[9] This included proposals for a trade council, cultural program, technological sharing, and an information program. Of those, only the latter two were passed.[10][11] Nonetheless, it has been brought up by observers commenting on trade disputes between members.[12]

Article 3[edit]

Article 3 of the treaty states that «In order more effectively to achieve the objectives of this Treaty, the Parties, separately and jointly, by means of continuous and effective self-help and mutual aid, will maintain and develop their individual and collective capacity to resist armed attack.»[5]

Recently, this has been interpreted as the basis for the target for a 2% GDP expenditure rule,[13] which was established as a loose guideline in 2006.[14] This metric was confirmed again during the 2014 Wales summit.

It has also been used as a core concept for a mandate to strengthen member resilience: the ability to resist and recover from major disasters, failures in infrastructure, or traditional armed attack. This commitment was first accepted during the 2016 Warsaw summit, and further reiterated and clarified due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021.[15][16] Per NATO documents, this has been understood to include seven key areas:

  • Continuity of government during a crisis
  • Energy and power grid infrastructure resilience
  • Immigration control
  • Food and water security
  • Medical emergencies
  • Resilient civil communications
  • Effective transportation networks[17]

Article 4[edit]

Article 4 is generally considered the starting point for major NATO operations, and therefore is intended for either emergencies or situations of urgency. It officially calls for consultation over military matters when «the territorial integrity, political independence or security of any of the parties is threatened.»[18] Upon its invocation, the issue is discussed in the North Atlantic Council, and can formally lead into a joint decision or action (logistic, military, or otherwise) on behalf of the Alliance.[19] It has been officially invoked seven times since the alliance’s creation.[20]

Article 4 invocations

Nations Date Reason Outcome
Turkey Turkey February 2003 Iraq War.[20][21] Operation Display Deterrence.[22]
Turkey Turkey June 2012 The shooting down of a Turkish military jet by Syria.[20] Operation Active Fence.[23]
Turkey Turkey October 2012 Syrian forces shelling Turkish cities.[20]
Latvia Latvia[24]

Lithuania Lithuania[25]
Poland Poland[26]

March 2014 In response to the extraterritorial Crimean crisis. Deployment of littoral, naval, and air forces in the Black Sea by Romania, Bulgaria, and Turkey.[27] Condemnation and support for sanctions of member countries and international community.[28] Reform and medical aid to the Ukrainian government.[29] Creation of the NATO Enhanced Forward Presence.[30]
Turkey Turkey July 2015 In response to the 2015 Suruç bombing, which it attributed to ISIS, and other security issues along its southern border.[19][31][32][33]

Main article: 2015 NATO emergency meeting

Denouncement of the attack[33] and reassessment of NATO assets in Turkey.[34]

Turkey Turkey February 2020 Increasing tensions as part of the Northwestern Syria offensive, including suspected[35] Syrian and Russian airstrikes on Turkish troops.[36][20] Augmentation of Turkish air defences.[37][38]
Bulgaria Bulgaria

Czech Republic Czech Republic
Estonia Estonia
Latvia Latvia
Lithuania Lithuania
Poland Poland
Romania Romania
Slovakia Slovakia[39]

February 2022 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[40]

See also: 2022 Brussels summit

Defensive build-up,[41][42] matériel support to Ukraine,[43] and activation of the NRF.[44][45]

There have also been instances where Article 4 was not formally invoked, but instead threatened. In fact, this was viewed as one of the original intentions for Article 4: as a means to elevate issues and provide member nations a means of deterrence.[46] For example, in November 2021, the Polish foreign ministry—along with Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia—briefly considered triggering Article 4 due to the Belarusian migrant crisis, but it was not formally requested.[47][48]

On 15 November 2022, a missile struck the territory of Poland at the village of Przewodów near the border with Ukraine.[49][50][51] The incident occurred during an attack on Ukrainian cities and energy facilities by Russia.[52][53] It was the first incident of a missile hitting NATO territory during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[54][55] The NATO Secretary General talked with the Polish President and there was no call for an Article 4 convention,[56] although the government had been in talks to consider invoking it.[57]

Article 5[edit]

The key section of the treaty is Article 5. Its commitment clause defines the casus foederis. It commits each member state to consider an armed attack against one member state, in the areas defined by Article 6, to be an armed attack against them all. Upon such attack, each member state is to assist by taking «such action as [the member state] deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area.» The article has only been invoked once, but considered in a number of other cases.

September 11 attacks[edit]

It has been invoked only once in NATO history, after the September 11 attacks on the United States in 2001.[58][59] The invocation was confirmed on 4 October 2001, when NATO determined that the attacks were indeed eligible under the terms of the North Atlantic Treaty.[60] The eight official actions taken by NATO in response to the 9/11 attacks included Operation Eagle Assist and Operation Active Endeavour, a naval operation in the Mediterranean which was designed to prevent the movement of terrorists or weapons of mass destruction, as well as enhancing the security of shipping in general. Active Endeavour began on 4 October 2001.[61]

Threatened invocations[edit]

Article 5 Threats

Party Date Reason
Turkey Turkey June, 2012

Main article: 2012 Turkish F-4 Phantom shootdown

The downing of an «unarmed» Turkish military jet which was «13 sea miles» from Syria over «international waters» on a «solo mission to test domestic radar systems».[62][63] On 25 June, the Turkish Deputy Prime Minister said that he intended to raise Article 5.[64]

Turkey Turkey August, 2012

Main article: Tomb of Suleyman Shah § Events during the Syrian Civil War

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stated that «The tomb of Suleyman Shah [in Syria] and the land surrounding it is our territory. We cannot ignore any unfavorable act against that monument, as it would be an attack on our territory, as well as an attack on NATO land… Everyone knows his duty, and will continue to do what is necessary».[65]

NATO NATO June, 2015 Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg[66][67] in an off-the-record interview with an official source, that «Entirely legal activities, such as running a pro-Moscow TV station, could become a broader assault on a country that would require a NATO response under Article Five of the Treaty… A final strategy is expected in October 2015.»[68][failed verification]
United Kingdom United Kingdom August, 2022

Main article: Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant crisis

Chair of the Defence Select Committee of the United Kingdom Tobias Ellwood said that any deliberate attack against the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine that could cause radiation leaks would be a breach of Article 5. This statement was released over fears that a nuclear catastrophe could occur in the Russian-occupied plant during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. The next day, American congressman Adam Kinzinger said that any radiation leak into NATO countries would kill people, which would be an automatic activation of Article 5.[69]

Albania Albania October, 2022

Main article: Albania–Iran relations

Albanian prime minister Edi Rama revealed that his government had considered invoking Article 5 in response to a major cyberattack on 15 July 2022 targeting critical and government infrastructure, widely believed to have been carried out on behalf of Iran by state–affiliated cybercriminals.[70][71]

Article 6[edit]

Article 6 states that Article 5 covers only member states’ territories in Europe, North America, Turkey, and islands in the Atlantic north of the Tropic of Cancer.

It was the opinion in August 1965 of the US State Department, the US Defense Department, and the legal division of NATO that an attack on the U.S. state of Hawaii would not trigger the treaty, but an attack on the other 49 would.[72]
The Spanish cities of Ceuta and Melilla on the North African shore are thus not under NATO protection in spite of Moroccan claims to them.
Legal experts have interpreted that other articles could cover the Spanish North African cities but this take has not been tested in practice.[73] This is also why events such as the Balyun airstrikes did not trigger Article 5, as the Turkish troops that were attacked were in Syria, not Turkey.[74]

On 16 April 2003, NATO agreed to take command of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan, which includes troops from 42 countries. The decision came at the request of Germany and the Netherlands, the two states leading ISAF at the time of the agreement, and all nineteen NATO ambassadors approved it unanimously. The handover of control to NATO took place on 11 August, and marked the first time in NATO’s history that it took charge of a mission outside of the area delineated by Article 6.[75]

Articles 7 and 8[edit]

In the case of any contradiction with other international obligations (with the exception of the United Nations, which by Article 7 supersedes NATO), or in military conflict of two NATO members, Article 8 comes into force. This is most important in cases should one member engage in military action against another member, upon which the offending members would be held in abeyance of the treaty and thereby NATO protection as a whole. This has not occurred yet, but there have been several militarised disputes between NATO allies that have threatened this:

NATO Militarised Interstate Conflicts

Date Belligerents Conflict
1958–1961, 1972–73 and 1975–76  Belgium  United Kingdom  West Germany  Iceland Cod Wars
1974  Greece  Turkey Turkish invasion of Cyprus
1994-1996  Canada  Spain Turbot War
1992–Present  Greece  Turkey The Aegean Dispute

If an intra-NATO conflict were to occur, there exist intra-NATO alliances which would be triggered instead in the instance of the abeyance. The following is a list of such active, intra-NATO military alliances.

Intra-NATO Military Alliances

Members Name
 Portugal  United Kingdom Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of 1373
 France  United Kingdom Lancaster House Treaties
 France  Greece Franco-Greek defence agreement
 Greece  United States Mutual Defense Cooperation Agreement[76][77][78]

Article 9[edit]

Establishes the North Atlantic Council, and is the only NATO body that derives its authority directly from the treaty. Its primary objectives as stated in the treaty is the enforcement of Article 3 and Article 5.

Article 10[edit]

Article 10 dictates the process by which other countries may join NATO, which is by unanimous agreement by current NATO members. Further, new NATO members can only consist of other European nations. In practice, this has turned into a set of action plans which an aspiring nation must follow in order to become a member, including the Membership Action Plan (MAP) mechanism[79] and Intensified Dialogue formula.[80]

Article 11[edit]

Article 11 indicated the process of the initial ratification of the treaty. Each signatory nation was required to ratify the treaty through their respective constitutional processes. In order to come into force, the treaty had to be ratified by Belgium, Canada, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Article 12[edit]

Article 12 states the process by which the treaty may be amended, provided such amendments still affect the North Atlantic area and do not violate the Charter of the United Nations. In practice, this has only been used to clearly delineate which territories are under the purview of NATO.

Article 13[edit]

Article 13 delimits the process by which a member leaves NATO, which simply consists of a one-year notice by the member nation to the U.S. government, who then promulgates the notice to the other member nations. This has been contemplated by many member nations, but so far has not happened aside from withdrawals due to independence of former territories or dependencies (namely, Algeria, Malta, and Cyprus).

Otherwise, the next closest option for a member nation is to instead withdraw from NATO’s military command structure, but not from NATO entirely. This happened with France in 1966, who rejoined in 2009; and happened with Greece in 1974, who still remains absent.

Article 14[edit]

Article 14 notes the official languages of NATO as English and French, and that the United States government shall promulgate copies of the treaty to the other member nations.

Changes since signing[edit]

Three official footnotes have been released to reflect the changes made since the treaty was written:[81]

Regarding Article 6:

  • 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.

Regarding Article 6:

  • On 16 January 1963, the North Atlantic Council noted that insofar as the former Algerian Departments of France were concerned, the relevant clauses of this Treaty had become inapplicable as from 3 July 1962.

Regarding Article 11:

  • The Treaty came into force on 24 August 1949, after the deposition of the ratifications of all signatory states.

See also[edit]

  • NATO
  • Warsaw Pact
  • Treaty of Brussels
    • Western Union
  • 2001 Sino-Russian Treaty of Friendship
  • September 11 attacks
  • Syrian Civil War
  • Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant crisis
  • Albania-Iran relations#Cyberattack and severed ties
  • 2021-2022 Belarus-European Union border crisis
  • North Atlantic Council
  • Enlargement of NATO#Article 10
  • Withdrawal from NATO
  • Aegean dispute
  • Turbot War
  • Turkish invasion of Cyprus
  • Cod Wars
  • 2014 Wales summit
  • 2015 NATO emergency meeting
  • 2016 Warsaw summit
  • 2022 Brussels summit
  • 2022 missile explosion in Poland
  • Operation Active Fence
  • Operation Display Deterrence
  • Operation Eagle Assist
  • Operation Active Endeavor
  • NATO Enhanced Forward Presence
  • NATO Response Force

Explanatory notes[edit]

  1. ^ Joined as Kingdom of Greece.
  2. ^ Joined as West Germany. After reunification in 1990, the former East German territory became covered by NATO protection.

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b «Theodore Achilles Oral History Interview». Truman Library. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
  2. ^ Cha, Victor (Winter 2009–2010). «Powerplay: Origins of U.S. Alliances in Asia». International Security. 34 (3): 158–196. doi:10.1162/isec.2010.34.3.158. S2CID 57566528.
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  5. ^ a b c d «About this Collection | United States Treaties and Other International Agreements | Digital Collections | Library of Congress» (PDF). Library of Congress.
  6. ^ Bevans, Charles Irving (1968). «North Atlantic Treaty». Treaties and other international agreements of the United States of America 1776–1949. Vol. 4, Multilateral 1946–1949. Washington, D.C.: Department of State. p. 831. LCCN 70600742. OCLC 6940. Retrieved 1 May 2013.
  7. ^ «NATO Declassified — Treaty Signatories». NATO.
  8. ^ NATO. «The North Atlantic Treaty». NATO. Retrieved 4 April 2022.
  9. ^ «by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at Massey College, Toronto (Canada)».
  10. ^ «CANADA AND NATO». The report’s ideas about enhanced economic partnerships and cultural connections were not implemented, but two major initiatives were adopted: a more robust information programme to explain NATO and its mission better to Allied audiences, and the creation of a NATO Science Programme, which has encouraged scientific and technological innovation across the Alliance and provided support to many Nobel laureates.
  11. ^ «Report of the Committee of Three on Non-Military Co-Operation in NATO» (PDF).
  12. ^ Eldon, Stewart (7 March 2017). «Brexit and Security».
  13. ^ Jans, Karljin (18 March 2022). «Will Russia’s invasion boost NATO’s budget?». Clingendal Institute. which goes beyond the idea of the 2% target. This will require focusing on Alliance readiness levels, with at the centre the NATO Defence Planning Process, addressing the full spectrum of challenges. NATO’s Article 3 will remain the fundamental principle to make this a reality.
  14. ^ «Press Briefing by NATO Spokesman, James Appathurai after the meeting of the North Atlantic Council at the level of Defence Ministers». 8 June 2006. Finally, I should add that Allies through the comprehensive political guidance have committed to endeavour, to meet the 2% target of GDP devoted to defence spending. Let me be clear, this is not a hard commitment that they will do it. But it is a commitment to work towards it. And that will be a first within the Alliance.
  15. ^ «Commitment to enhance resilience: Issued by the Heads of State and Government participating in the meeting of the North Atlantic Council in Warsaw». 8 July 2016.
  16. ^ «Strengthened Resilience Commitment». 15 July 2021.
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Further reading[edit]

  • Watry, David M. (2014). Diplomacy at the Brink: Eisenhower, Churchill, and Eden in the Cold War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.

External links[edit]

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North Atlantic Treaty

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Type Military alliance
Location Washington, D.C.
Effective 24 August 1949; 73 years ago
Condition Ratification by the majority of the signatories including Belgium, Canada, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States
Parties

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  •  Albania
  •  Belgium
  •  Bulgaria
  •  Canada
  •  Croatia
  •  Czech Republic
  •  Denmark
  •  Estonia
  •  France
  •  Germany
  •  Greece
  •  Hungary
  •  Iceland
  •  Italy
  •  Latvia
  •  Lithuania
  •  Luxembourg
  •  Montenegro
  •  Netherlands
  •  North Macedonia
  •  Norway
  •  Poland
  •  Portugal
  •  Romania
  •  Slovakia
  •  Slovenia
  •  Spain
  •  Turkey
  •  United Kingdom
  •  United States
Depositary Government of the United States of America
Languages French, English
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The North Atlantic Treaty is the treaty that forms the legal basis of, and is implemented by, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The treaty was signed in Washington, D.C., on 4 April 1949.

Background[edit]

The treaty was signed in Washington, D.C., on 4 April 1949 by a committee which was chaired by US diplomat Theodore Achilles. Earlier secret talks had been held at the Pentagon between 22 March and 1 April 1948, of which Achilles said:

The talks lasted about two weeks and by the time they finished, it had been secretly agreed that there would be a treaty, and I had a draft of one in the bottom drawer of my safe. It was never shown to anyone except Jack [Hickerson]. I wish I had kept it, but when I left the Department in 1950, I dutifully left it in the safe and I have never been able to trace it in the archives. It drew heavily on the Rio Treaty, and a bit of the Brussels Treaty, which had not yet been signed, but of which we were being kept heavily supplied with drafts. The eventual North Atlantic Treaty had the general form, and a good bit of the language of my first draft, but with a number of important differences.[1]

According to Achilles, another important author of the treaty was John D. Hickerson:

More than any human being Jack was responsible for the nature, content, and form of the Treaty…It was a one-man Hickerson treaty.[1]

As a fundamental component of NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty is a product of the US’ desire to avoid overextension at the end of World War II, and consequently pursue multilateralism in Europe.[2] It is part of the US’ collective defense arrangement with Western European powers, following a long and deliberative process.[3] The treaty was created with an armed attack by the Soviet Union against Western Europe in mind,[4] although the mutual self-defense clause was never invoked during the Cold War.

By signing the North Atlantic Treaty, parties are «determined to safeguard the freedom, common heritage and civilization of the peoples, founded on the principles of democracy, individual liberty and the rule of law.»[5]

Members[edit]

Founding members[edit]

Current NATO member states

Animated map of NATO membership over time

The following twelve states signed the treaty and thus became the founding members of NATO. The following leaders signed the agreement as plenipotentiaries of their countries in Washington, D.C., on 4 April 1949:[6][7]

Non-founding members who joined before the dissolution of the Soviet Union[edit]

The following four states joined the treaty after the 12 founding states, but before the dissolution of the Soviet Union:

Members who joined after the dissolution of the Soviet Union[edit]

The following 14 states joined the treaty after the dissolution of the Soviet Union:

Withdrawal[edit]

No state has rescinded its membership but some dependencies of member states have not requested membership after becoming independent:

Articles[edit]

Article 1[edit]

Article 1 of the treaty states that member parties «settle any international disputes in which they may be involved by peaceful means in such a manner that international peace and security, and justice, are not endangered, and to refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force in any manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations.»[5]

Members seek to promote stability and well-being in the North Atlantic area through preservation of peace and security in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.[5]

Article 2[edit]

Article 2 of the treaty stipulates that «The Parties will contribute toward the further development of peaceful and friendly international relations by strengthening their free institutions, by bringing about a better understanding of the principles upon which these institutions are founded, and by promoting conditions of stability and well-being. They will seek to eliminate conflict in their international economic policies and will encourage economic collaboration between any or all of them.»[8] This is sometimes referred to as the «Canadian Clause» after Pearson pushed for its inclusion in the treaty.[9] This included proposals for a trade council, cultural program, technological sharing, and an information program. Of those, only the latter two were passed.[10][11] Nonetheless, it has been brought up by observers commenting on trade disputes between members.[12]

Article 3[edit]

Article 3 of the treaty states that «In order more effectively to achieve the objectives of this Treaty, the Parties, separately and jointly, by means of continuous and effective self-help and mutual aid, will maintain and develop their individual and collective capacity to resist armed attack.»[5]

Recently, this has been interpreted as the basis for the target for a 2% GDP expenditure rule,[13] which was established as a loose guideline in 2006.[14] This metric was confirmed again during the 2014 Wales summit.

It has also been used as a core concept for a mandate to strengthen member resilience: the ability to resist and recover from major disasters, failures in infrastructure, or traditional armed attack. This commitment was first accepted during the 2016 Warsaw summit, and further reiterated and clarified due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021.[15][16] Per NATO documents, this has been understood to include seven key areas:

  • Continuity of government during a crisis
  • Energy and power grid infrastructure resilience
  • Immigration control
  • Food and water security
  • Medical emergencies
  • Resilient civil communications
  • Effective transportation networks[17]

Article 4[edit]

Article 4 is generally considered the starting point for major NATO operations, and therefore is intended for either emergencies or situations of urgency. It officially calls for consultation over military matters when «the territorial integrity, political independence or security of any of the parties is threatened.»[18] Upon its invocation, the issue is discussed in the North Atlantic Council, and can formally lead into a joint decision or action (logistic, military, or otherwise) on behalf of the Alliance.[19] It has been officially invoked seven times since the alliance’s creation.[20]

Article 4 invocations

Nations Date Reason Outcome
Turkey Turkey February 2003 Iraq War.[20][21] Operation Display Deterrence.[22]
Turkey Turkey June 2012 The shooting down of a Turkish military jet by Syria.[20] Operation Active Fence.[23]
Turkey Turkey October 2012 Syrian forces shelling Turkish cities.[20]
Latvia Latvia[24]

Lithuania Lithuania[25]
Poland Poland[26]

March 2014 In response to the extraterritorial Crimean crisis. Deployment of littoral, naval, and air forces in the Black Sea by Romania, Bulgaria, and Turkey.[27] Condemnation and support for sanctions of member countries and international community.[28] Reform and medical aid to the Ukrainian government.[29] Creation of the NATO Enhanced Forward Presence.[30]
Turkey Turkey July 2015 In response to the 2015 Suruç bombing, which it attributed to ISIS, and other security issues along its southern border.[19][31][32][33]

Main article: 2015 NATO emergency meeting

Denouncement of the attack[33] and reassessment of NATO assets in Turkey.[34]

Turkey Turkey February 2020 Increasing tensions as part of the Northwestern Syria offensive, including suspected[35] Syrian and Russian airstrikes on Turkish troops.[36][20] Augmentation of Turkish air defences.[37][38]
Bulgaria Bulgaria

Czech Republic Czech Republic
Estonia Estonia
Latvia Latvia
Lithuania Lithuania
Poland Poland
Romania Romania
Slovakia Slovakia[39]

February 2022 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[40]

See also: 2022 Brussels summit

Defensive build-up,[41][42] matériel support to Ukraine,[43] and activation of the NRF.[44][45]

There have also been instances where Article 4 was not formally invoked, but instead threatened. In fact, this was viewed as one of the original intentions for Article 4: as a means to elevate issues and provide member nations a means of deterrence.[46] For example, in November 2021, the Polish foreign ministry—along with Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia—briefly considered triggering Article 4 due to the Belarusian migrant crisis, but it was not formally requested.[47][48]

On 15 November 2022, a missile struck the territory of Poland at the village of Przewodów near the border with Ukraine.[49][50][51] The incident occurred during an attack on Ukrainian cities and energy facilities by Russia.[52][53] It was the first incident of a missile hitting NATO territory during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[54][55] The NATO Secretary General talked with the Polish President and there was no call for an Article 4 convention,[56] although the government had been in talks to consider invoking it.[57]

Article 5[edit]

The key section of the treaty is Article 5. Its commitment clause defines the casus foederis. It commits each member state to consider an armed attack against one member state, in the areas defined by Article 6, to be an armed attack against them all. Upon such attack, each member state is to assist by taking «such action as [the member state] deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area.» The article has only been invoked once, but considered in a number of other cases.

September 11 attacks[edit]

It has been invoked only once in NATO history, after the September 11 attacks on the United States in 2001.[58][59] The invocation was confirmed on 4 October 2001, when NATO determined that the attacks were indeed eligible under the terms of the North Atlantic Treaty.[60] The eight official actions taken by NATO in response to the 9/11 attacks included Operation Eagle Assist and Operation Active Endeavour, a naval operation in the Mediterranean which was designed to prevent the movement of terrorists or weapons of mass destruction, as well as enhancing the security of shipping in general. Active Endeavour began on 4 October 2001.[61]

Threatened invocations[edit]

Article 5 Threats

Party Date Reason
Turkey Turkey June, 2012

Main article: 2012 Turkish F-4 Phantom shootdown

The downing of an «unarmed» Turkish military jet which was «13 sea miles» from Syria over «international waters» on a «solo mission to test domestic radar systems».[62][63] On 25 June, the Turkish Deputy Prime Minister said that he intended to raise Article 5.[64]

Turkey Turkey August, 2012

Main article: Tomb of Suleyman Shah § Events during the Syrian Civil War

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stated that «The tomb of Suleyman Shah [in Syria] and the land surrounding it is our territory. We cannot ignore any unfavorable act against that monument, as it would be an attack on our territory, as well as an attack on NATO land… Everyone knows his duty, and will continue to do what is necessary».[65]

NATO NATO June, 2015 Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg[66][67] in an off-the-record interview with an official source, that «Entirely legal activities, such as running a pro-Moscow TV station, could become a broader assault on a country that would require a NATO response under Article Five of the Treaty… A final strategy is expected in October 2015.»[68][failed verification]
United Kingdom United Kingdom August, 2022

Main article: Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant crisis

Chair of the Defence Select Committee of the United Kingdom Tobias Ellwood said that any deliberate attack against the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine that could cause radiation leaks would be a breach of Article 5. This statement was released over fears that a nuclear catastrophe could occur in the Russian-occupied plant during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. The next day, American congressman Adam Kinzinger said that any radiation leak into NATO countries would kill people, which would be an automatic activation of Article 5.[69]

Albania Albania October, 2022

Main article: Albania–Iran relations

Albanian prime minister Edi Rama revealed that his government had considered invoking Article 5 in response to a major cyberattack on 15 July 2022 targeting critical and government infrastructure, widely believed to have been carried out on behalf of Iran by state–affiliated cybercriminals.[70][71]

Article 6[edit]

Article 6 states that Article 5 covers only member states’ territories in Europe, North America, Turkey, and islands in the Atlantic north of the Tropic of Cancer.

It was the opinion in August 1965 of the US State Department, the US Defense Department, and the legal division of NATO that an attack on the U.S. state of Hawaii would not trigger the treaty, but an attack on the other 49 would.[72]
The Spanish cities of Ceuta and Melilla on the North African shore are thus not under NATO protection in spite of Moroccan claims to them.
Legal experts have interpreted that other articles could cover the Spanish North African cities but this take has not been tested in practice.[73] This is also why events such as the Balyun airstrikes did not trigger Article 5, as the Turkish troops that were attacked were in Syria, not Turkey.[74]

On 16 April 2003, NATO agreed to take command of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan, which includes troops from 42 countries. The decision came at the request of Germany and the Netherlands, the two states leading ISAF at the time of the agreement, and all nineteen NATO ambassadors approved it unanimously. The handover of control to NATO took place on 11 August, and marked the first time in NATO’s history that it took charge of a mission outside of the area delineated by Article 6.[75]

Articles 7 and 8[edit]

In the case of any contradiction with other international obligations (with the exception of the United Nations, which by Article 7 supersedes NATO), or in military conflict of two NATO members, Article 8 comes into force. This is most important in cases should one member engage in military action against another member, upon which the offending members would be held in abeyance of the treaty and thereby NATO protection as a whole. This has not occurred yet, but there have been several militarised disputes between NATO allies that have threatened this:

NATO Militarised Interstate Conflicts

Date Belligerents Conflict
1958–1961, 1972–73 and 1975–76  Belgium  United Kingdom  West Germany  Iceland Cod Wars
1974  Greece  Turkey Turkish invasion of Cyprus
1994-1996  Canada  Spain Turbot War
1992–Present  Greece  Turkey The Aegean Dispute

If an intra-NATO conflict were to occur, there exist intra-NATO alliances which would be triggered instead in the instance of the abeyance. The following is a list of such active, intra-NATO military alliances.

Intra-NATO Military Alliances

Members Name
 Portugal  United Kingdom Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of 1373
 France  United Kingdom Lancaster House Treaties
 France  Greece Franco-Greek defence agreement
 Greece  United States Mutual Defense Cooperation Agreement[76][77][78]

Article 9[edit]

Establishes the North Atlantic Council, and is the only NATO body that derives its authority directly from the treaty. Its primary objectives as stated in the treaty is the enforcement of Article 3 and Article 5.

Article 10[edit]

Article 10 dictates the process by which other countries may join NATO, which is by unanimous agreement by current NATO members. Further, new NATO members can only consist of other European nations. In practice, this has turned into a set of action plans which an aspiring nation must follow in order to become a member, including the Membership Action Plan (MAP) mechanism[79] and Intensified Dialogue formula.[80]

Article 11[edit]

Article 11 indicated the process of the initial ratification of the treaty. Each signatory nation was required to ratify the treaty through their respective constitutional processes. In order to come into force, the treaty had to be ratified by Belgium, Canada, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Article 12[edit]

Article 12 states the process by which the treaty may be amended, provided such amendments still affect the North Atlantic area and do not violate the Charter of the United Nations. In practice, this has only been used to clearly delineate which territories are under the purview of NATO.

Article 13[edit]

Article 13 delimits the process by which a member leaves NATO, which simply consists of a one-year notice by the member nation to the U.S. government, who then promulgates the notice to the other member nations. This has been contemplated by many member nations, but so far has not happened aside from withdrawals due to independence of former territories or dependencies (namely, Algeria, Malta, and Cyprus).

Otherwise, the next closest option for a member nation is to instead withdraw from NATO’s military command structure, but not from NATO entirely. This happened with France in 1966, who rejoined in 2009; and happened with Greece in 1974, who still remains absent.

Article 14[edit]

Article 14 notes the official languages of NATO as English and French, and that the United States government shall promulgate copies of the treaty to the other member nations.

Changes since signing[edit]

Three official footnotes have been released to reflect the changes made since the treaty was written:[81]

Regarding Article 6:

  • 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.

Regarding Article 6:

  • On 16 January 1963, the North Atlantic Council noted that insofar as the former Algerian Departments of France were concerned, the relevant clauses of this Treaty had become inapplicable as from 3 July 1962.

Regarding Article 11:

  • The Treaty came into force on 24 August 1949, after the deposition of the ratifications of all signatory states.

See also[edit]

  • NATO
  • Warsaw Pact
  • Treaty of Brussels
    • Western Union
  • 2001 Sino-Russian Treaty of Friendship
  • September 11 attacks
  • Syrian Civil War
  • Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant crisis
  • Albania-Iran relations#Cyberattack and severed ties
  • 2021-2022 Belarus-European Union border crisis
  • North Atlantic Council
  • Enlargement of NATO#Article 10
  • Withdrawal from NATO
  • Aegean dispute
  • Turbot War
  • Turkish invasion of Cyprus
  • Cod Wars
  • 2014 Wales summit
  • 2015 NATO emergency meeting
  • 2016 Warsaw summit
  • 2022 Brussels summit
  • 2022 missile explosion in Poland
  • Operation Active Fence
  • Operation Display Deterrence
  • Operation Eagle Assist
  • Operation Active Endeavor
  • NATO Enhanced Forward Presence
  • NATO Response Force

Explanatory notes[edit]

  1. ^ Joined as Kingdom of Greece.
  2. ^ Joined as West Germany. After reunification in 1990, the former East German territory became covered by NATO protection.

References[edit]

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Further reading[edit]

  • Watry, David M. (2014). Diplomacy at the Brink: Eisenhower, Churchill, and Eden in the Cold War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.

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Основными органами Северо-Атлантического союза, по решению Лиссабонской сессии его Совета (1952 г.), являются: Совет, генеральный секретарь с подчиненным ему секретариатом из гражданских лиц, военный комитет и «постоянная группа». Совет состоит из постоянных представителей участников и специальных делегатов – членов правительств. Военный комитет образуется из начальников штабов участников союза, а «постоянная группа», являющаяся исполнительным органом военного комитета, состоит из представителей начальников штабов только США, Англии и Франции. Верховное командование союза, в том числе верховное командование морскими силами, возложено на американцев.
С.-А. п. предусматривает гонку вооружений в государствах-участниках. В целях стимулирования гонки вооружений США издали ряд законов (6 октября 1949 г., 26 июня и 27 октября 1950 г., 10 октября 1951 г. и 20 июня 1952 г. и т. д.), оформивших программу финансирования вооружения в странах – участницах С.-А. п.
Для облегчения развязывания агрессивной войны С.-А. п. рассматривает любой даже самый мелкий инцидент (напр., с отдельным самолетом или судном), который легко может быть спровоцирован любым участником С.-А. п., в качестве акта агрессии против всех участников С.-А. п., требующего совместного подавления.
С.-А. п. является агрессивным договором империалистических государств, находящимся в прямом противоречии с Уставом ООН и договорами военного времени США и других капиталистических государств с СССР, и направлен на срыв международного сотрудничества стран с различными социальными системами.
Агрессивный характер С.-А. п. и его антисоветская направленность были вскрыты в заявлении МИД СССР 29 января 1949 г., в меморандуме Правительства СССР 31 марта 1949 г. и подтверждены всем последующим ходом событий. «Из великих держав, – указывалось в меморандуме Правительства СССР, – лишь Советский Союз исключен из числа участников этого договора, это можно объяснить только тем, что этот договор направлен против Советского Союза. Что Северо-атлантический договор направлен против СССР, а также против стран народной демократии, – на это определенно указали также официальные представители Соединенных Штатов Америки, Великобритании и Франции».
Агрессивный характер С.-А. п. делает несовместимым его с Уставом ООН и лишает его участников возможности ссылаться на ст. 51 Устава, предусматривающую право государства на самооборону.
В указанных выше дипломатических актах СССР пскрыта также несостоятельность утверждения участников С.-А. п. о том, что он якобы носит региональный характер и соответствует ст. 52 Устава ООН о региональных соглашениях. Но «ни о каком региональном характере этого договора не может быть и речи, – говорится в меморандуме Правительства СССР, – поскольку предусматриваемый этим договором союз охватывает государства, расположенные в обоих полушариях земного шара, и не ставит своей целью урегулирование тех или иных региональных вопросов». Явное противоречие С.-А. п. ст. 52-й Устава ООН углубляется еще тем, что к участию в нем привлечены государства – не члены ООН (Италия, Португалия), хотя указанная статья Устава ООН имеет в виду заключение региональных соглашений лишь между членами Организации Объединенных Наций.
С.-А. п. находится и в противоречии с договорами между СССР и Великобританией, между СССР и Францией, согласно которым эти страны обязались сотрудничать с СССР в деле поддержания мира и «не заключать никаких союзов и не принимать участия ни в каких коалициях, направленных против Другой Высокой Договаривающейся Стороны» (см. «Внешняя политика Советского Союза в период . Отечественной войны», 1946, т. 1, стр. 272; т. 2, стр. 329). С.-А. п. находится также в явном противоречии с решениями Ялтинской и Потсдамской конференций, в -которых США и Англия обязались сотрудничать с СССР в деле обеспечения мира и безопасности.
О наступательных целях С.-А. п. особенно ярко свидетельствует ряд фактов, последовавших после его подписания. Так, на основе С.-А. п. США приобрели «право» создавать свои военные базы на территории государств – участников этого пакта и их колоний. Согласно заявлениям американских официальных представителей, задачей США в выполнении целей С.-А. п. будет являться лишь стратегическая бомбардировка, доставка атомных бомб и использование своих военно-морских сил вместе с флотом других членов С.-А. п., в частности, членов Западного союза (см.). Что же касается основной массы сухопутных войск, то ее должны дать Англия, Франция, Италия и другие страны Европы.
В 1951–52 гг. американские империалисты расширили зону действия С.-А. п., втянув в него ряд. стран, ранее не входивших в его состав. Так, на основе решения сессии совета С.-А. п., состоявшейся в Оттаве в сентябре 1951 г., в состав этого военного блока вошли такие «атлантические» государства, как Турция и Греция.
С помощью Парижского договора 1952 г. (см.) об «Европейском оборонительном сообществе» и других соглашений США по существу включили в систему С.-А. п. Западную Германию, возрождаемая реваншистская армия которой должна стать основой вооруженных сил Северо-Атлантического союза в Европе. Фактическое включение Западной Германии в систему С.-А. п. явилось одним из важнейших моментов в создании объединенной армии Cтран – участниц С.-А. п. Кроме этого, США и Англия втягивают в Северо-Атлантический союз франкистскую Испанию и ряд неатлантических капиталистических государств. Это окончательно разоблачает лживость утверждений о якобы региональном характере С.-А. п.
В течение 1950–52 гг. американские империалисты занимались также сколачиванием еще нескольких союзов в дополнение к С.-А. п. К числу таких, союзов относится т. н. «Малый Тихоокеанский пакт» в составе США, Австралии и Новой Зеландии. США, несмотря на протесты Англии, не допустили ее к участию в этом своем пакте с английскими доминионами. Состав этого блока рассматривается США как ядро Большого Тихоокеанского союза, в который они хотят привлечь Австралию, Новую Зеландию, Филиппины, Индонезию и Японию, отводя в нем главную роль последней. Одновременно ведется подготовка к созданию наступательного военного блока стран Юго-Восточной Азии под видом пакта «о взаимной безопасности» в составе Японии, Филиппин, Бирмы и Таиланда, направленного против национально-освободительного движения в странах Юго-Восточной Азии.
Организаторы С.-А. п. прилагают все усилия к сколачиванию и т. н. Восточно-Средиземноморского блока, втягивая в него арабские страны (Египет, Сирию, Ливан, Ирак, Саудовскую Аравию, Йемен) и Израиль.
Организуемый Восточно-Средиземноморский блок, получивший в последнее время наименование как «средневосточное командование», также представляет собой дополнение к С.-А. п. и направлен против СССР и стран народной демократии.
Американские империалисты вынашивают планы возрождения Саадабадского пакта между Турцией, Ираком, Ираном и Афганистаном, рассчитывая связать его с С.-А. п. и т. п.
Но несмотря на кажущуюся организованность политических и экономических сил империализма, Северо-Атлантический блок, как и другие блоки империалистов, не снимает империалистические противоречия между их участниками. Объективная возможность мирного сосуществования государств с различными системами – социалистической и капиталистической – представляет более решающий фактор современных международных отношений, чем желание империалистов объединить все капиталистические государства с их противоречиями в устойчивые блоки и союзы на основе противопоставления государств с различными системами, на основе фактической ликвидации суверенитета государств – участников этих блоков в пользу крупнейших империалистических держав. Об этом свидетельствуют отказ Англии от участия в европейской армии, в «плане Шумана», устранение Соединенными Штатами Англии от участия ее в Тихоокеанском пакте, вытеснение Англии и Франции из их африканских и других владений, развитие противоречий между Францией и Западной Германией и т. п.
Кроме того, организация империалистами военных блоков наталкивается на сопротивление со стороны ряда государств Востока (напр., отказ Египта от участия в средневосточном командовании, протесты Бирмы против американо-чанкайшистской агрессии против нее и Китая, отказ Бирмы от присоединения к пакту «о взаимной безопасности» и т. п.). Все это говорит о возможности возникновения серьезных конфликтов между самими участниками С.-А. п.
Тем не менее С.-А. п. и другие связанные с ним агрессивные мероприятия США и их союзников представляют собой реальную и серьезную военную опасность для всех народов мира.
Учитывая все это и борясь против всякой войны, Советский Союз вместе со странами народной демократии последовательно и настойчиво выступает против С.-А. п. и других связанных с ним договоров империалистов, неустанно разоблачая их агрессивную и антинародную сущность.
В целях ликвидации напряжения в международной обстановке, вызванного агрессивным курсом внешней политики США и других участников С.-А. п., и улучшения отношений СССР с западными державами Правительством СССР был поставлен вопрос о С.-А. п. и американских военных базах на состоявшемся в 1951 г. в Париже предварительном совещании заместителей министров иностранных дел четырех держав (СССР, США, Англии и Франции) для обсуждения его на сессии Совета министров иностранных дел (см.) (см. Ноту Советского правительства США, Англии и Франции от 4 июня 1951 г. – «Известия» 5 июня 1951 г.). В борьбе за укрепление мира и ликвидацию международного напряжения, вызванного политикой противопоставления государств на основе различия общественных систем, проводимой империалистами, Советское правительство 24 ноября 1951 г. и 28 января 1952 г. направило ноты правительствам США, Англии, Франции и Турции, в которых вскрыло агрессивную сущность т. н. «средневосточного командования». Нотой от 21 ноября 1951 г. Советское правительство обратило внимание правительств Египта, Сирии, Ливана, Ирака, Саудовской Аравии, Йемена и Израиля на то, что присоединение их к «средневосточному командованию» нанесет серьезный ущерб существующим между СССР и этими странами отношениям, а также делу поддержания мира и безопасности в районе Ближнего и Среднего Востока.
На 6-й сессии Генеральной Ассамблеи ООН 8 ноября 1961 г. советская делегация внесла предложения «О мерах против угрозы новой мировой войны и по укреплению мира и дружбы между народами», в которых в качестве первого пункта предлагалось объявить несовместимым с членством в ООН участие в агрессивном Атлантическом союзе. Под давлением США это предложение, которое было поддержано делегациями УССР, БССР, стран народной демократии и ряда стран Востока, большинство ООН отклонило.
Наконец, в целях укрепления мира и разрешения имеющихся разногласий Советский Союз предложил заключить Пакт Мира (см.). Это предложение Советского Союза нашло горячую поддержку со стороны всех народов мира.
Борьба СССР против С.-А. п. нашла полное одобрение среди всех народов мира. На почве борьбы против С.-А. п. и агрессивных планов США и других империалистических государств во всех странах родилось и развивается мощное движение народов за мир. … смотреть

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1949, Североатлантический договор, см. в ст. Организация Североатлантического
договора.

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НАТО — ОРГАНИЗАЦИЯ СЕВЕРОАТЛАНТИЧЕСКОГО ДОГОВОРА
(англ. North Atlantic Treaty Organization — NATO)
военно-политический союз, созданный на основе Североатлантического договора, подписанного 4 апреля 1949 в Вашингтоне США, Великобританией, Францией, Бельгией, Нидерландами, Люксембургом, Канадой, Италией, Португалией, Норвегией, Данией, Исландией. В 1952 к НАТО присоединились Греция и Турция, в 1955 — ФРГ, в 1982 — Испания. В рамках НАТО создано объединенное военное командование. В 1966 из военной организации НАТО вышла Франция, в 1974 — Греция (в 1980 вернулась в организацию); в военную организацию не входит Испания. На июльской сессии 1997 Совета НАТО в Мадриде было принято решение о расширении блока за счет стран Восточной Европы и республик бывшего СССР. В 1999 приняты Польша, Чехия и Венгрия. Высший орган — сессия Совета НАТО. Штаб-квартира в Брюсселе…. смотреть

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НАТО — ОРГАНИЗАЦИЯ СЕВЕРОАТЛАНТИЧЕСКОГО ДОГОВОРА
(англ. North Atlantic Treaty Organization — NATO)
военно-политический … смотреть

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договор, заложивший основу создания НАТО (NATO, сокр. от North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Организация Северо-атлантич. договора)), агрессивной воен…. смотреть

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(англ North Atlantic Council) — Совет НАТО, высший политический орган Организации Североатлантического договора (НАТО). Создан в соответствии с Северо… смотреть

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North Atlantic Council) – высший полит, орган Организации Североатлантического договора (НАТО). Создан в соответствии с Североатлантическим договором 1949 для рассмотрения вопросов, связанных с его применением, в составе представителей всех участников договора. 1-я сессия С. состоялась 17.09.1949. С. проводит полит, консультации и обмен информацией по осн. вопросам деятельности НАТО и принимает по ним решения, координирует действия стран – участниц блока и определяет размеры их финансового вклада, утверждает бюджеты органов НАТО. Сессии С. проводятся, как правило, 2 раза в год, иногда на высшем уровне, но чаще – на уровне министров иностр. дел при участии, в зависимости от повестки дня, министров обороны, экономики, финансов. Не реже 1 раза в неделю С. заседает в составе постоянных представителей стран НАТО в ранге послов (Постоянный совет) в штаб-квартире НАТО в Эвере (Бельгия). На этих заседаниях рассматриваются текущие вопросы деятельности блока…. смотреть

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агрессивный империалистический блок во главе с США, направленный на разжигание третьей мировой войны — против Советского Союза и стран народной демократии; договор о С.-а. с. подписан 4. IV 1949.
Подготовка к созданию агрессивного антисоветского союза началась еще во время второй мировой войны, когда английские правящие круги выдвинули проект блока западноевропейских держав. Враждебные Советскому Союзу замыслы, содержавшиеся уже в этих первоначальных планах, подчеркивались присоединением к активным сторонникам «западного блока» фашистского диктатора Испании ген. Франко, вступившего в переписку по этому вопросу с Черчиллем.
По окончании войны реакционные печать и политические деятели Великобритании, Франции и других западноевропейских стран стали открыто обсуждать проекты «западного блока». Правительство США также приняло участие в создании этого блока. Американские правящие круги выдвинули прямое требование, чтобы предоставление кредитов по «плану Маршалла» было обусловлено созданием антисоветского блока западноевропейских государств.
Одним из главных этапов подготовки «западного блока» явилось Лондонское совещание 1948 (см.) по германскому вопросу. Вслед за тем, 4-12. III 1948, в Брюсселе состоялось совещание представителей Великобритании, Франции, Бельгии, Голландии, Люксембурга. Подготовленный на этом совещании т. н. Брюссельский пакт о политическом, экономическом и военном сотрудничестве сроком на 50 лет был подписан 17. III министрами иностранных дел указанных пяти держав. Первые три статьи пакта включают обязательства договаривающихся сторон координировать их экономическую и торговую деятельность. Но истинный смысл пакта заключен в его 4-й статье, посвященной военным обязательствам.
Согласно этой статье договаривающиеся стороны обязуются предоставить друг другу «всякую военную и другую помощь и содействие, находящиеся в их распоряжении». Содержащаяся в этой статье ссылка на ст. 51 устава ООН, в соответствии с которой якобы предполагается оказывать помощь, служит лишь для маскировки действительных целей агрессивного военного блока, наносящего удар принципам организации Объединенных наций.
Брюссельский пакт отнюдь не направлен против германской агрессии; участники пакта еще до его подписания отказались от той политики в отношении Германии, которая была принята Крымской и Потсдамской конференциями, и, напротив, решили отвести недавнему агрессору — Германии — роль основной экономической и военно-стратегической базы «западного блока». С другой стороны, учредители «западного блока» не только с самого начала исключили возможность участия в нем стран народной демократии и Советского Союза, но и не скрывали в своих выступлениях, что пакт направлен именно против этих стран.
«Западный блок» предусматривает также совместные действия его участников против прогрессивных сил в каждой из стран, подписавших Брюссельский пакт. В то же время правительства стран «западного блока» стремятся использовать эту военно-политическую группировку для подавления национально-освободительного движения в их колониях.
На основе Брюссельского пакта в 1948 были созданы руководящие органы «западного блока»: т. н. Консультативный совет в составе представителей пяти государств в Лондоне, военный комитет и штаб «западного блока» во главе с британским фельдмаршалом Монтгомери в Фонтенебло.
США включили во все органы «западного блока» своих наблюдателей. Заключения военного комитета о стратегических планах и военных потребностях должны были представляться на утверждение американскому военному ведомству. Таким образом, уже на этой стадии США фактически примкнули к «западному блоку». Однако англо-американские правящие круги ставили перед собой значительно более широкие цели, чем создание западноевропейской группировки. Эти цели были провозглашены еще в марте 1946 в речи Черчилля на митинге в Фултоне, происходившем под председательством Трумэна. Как указывается в заявлении Министерства иностранных дел СССР, опубликованном 29. I 1949, эти цели «теснейшим образом связаны с планами насильственного установления мирового англо-американского господства под эгидой Соединенных Штатов Америки». Исходя из этих целей, американское правительство добивалось превращения «западного блока» в еще более широкую группировку империалистических держав.
17. III 1948, в день подписания Брюссельского пакта, президент США Трумэн заявил, что США окажут полную поддержку «западному блоку». И. VI 1948 американский конгресс принял т. н. «резолюцию Ванденберга», призывающую правительство стать на путь прямой поддержки западного военного союза. Одновременно государственный департамент США приступил к переговорам со странами «западного блока» о создании С.-а. с. с участием США и Канады. Чтобы помочь реакционным правительствам Италии, Дании, Норвегии и других стран преодолеть сопротивление парламентской оппозиции и прогрессивных общественных организаций, не желающих втягивания этих стран в военные блоки, в январе 1949 было объявлено об, образовании «Европейского совета», не связанного будто бы с «западным блоком» и не имеющего военных целей. На деле «Европейский совет» был призван способствовать дальнейшей ликвидации суверенитета западноевропейских государств, дальнейшему подчинению Западной Европы Соединенным Штатам Америки и облегчить привлечение Западной Германии, а также Италии и других стран к участию в С.-а. с. под флагом «европейского сотрудничества».
Англо-американская дипломатия широко использовала разведку и печать для запугивания малых стране целью привлечения их к С.-а. с. Особое внимание при этом уделялось скандинавским странам, из которых две — Норвегия и Швеция — расположены в непосредственной близости к границам СССР.
29. I 1949 Советское правительство обратилось к правительству Норвегии с просьбой разъяснить позицию норвежского правительства в вопросе о С.-а. с, а 5. II-с предложением о заключении пакта ненападения между Норвегией и СССР. Норвежское правительство, однако, отклонило предложение Советского Союза и продолжало вести переговоры о С.-а. с.
Договор о С.-а. с. был подписан в Вашингтоне представителями США, Канады, Великобритании, Франции, Бельгии, Голландии, Люксембурга, Италии, Норвегии, Дании, Исландии и Португалии. Пакт состоит из преамбулы и 14 статей; срок его действия — 20 лет. Статьи пакта предусматривают предоставление военной помощи каждой стране-участнице С.-а. с, в случае если она «подвергнется нападению» какой-либо другой державы. Ст. 4, предусматривающая совместные действия стран, подписавших пакт, в случае угрозы их «политической независимости или безопасности», призвана оправдать вмешательство Соединенных Штатов Америки во внутренние дела тех стран, в которых народ передаст власть в руки демократических партий.
С.-а. с. — «орудие прямой, непосредственной подготовки новой империалистической войны» (Г. М. Маленков).
В соответствии с условиями пакта о С.-а. с. был создан Совет по осуществлению пакта и Комитет обороны — военный штаб, в задачу которого входит разработка планов агрессии. «Целые государства, особенно из числа расположенных поблизости от границ СССР, приспособлены к тому, чтобы обеспечить более удобные плацдармы для англо-американских военно-воздушных сил и для других возможностей нападения на СССР» (из заявления Министерства иностранных дел СССР о Североатлантическом пакте).
Инициаторы С.-а. с. немедленно после его создания начали еще более энергично проводить политику раскола Германии и восстановления ее военно-промышленного потенциала, рассчитывая использовать Западную Германию в качестве плацдарма, арсенала и поставщика пушечного мяса для планируемой ими войны против Советского Союза.
Создание С.-а. с. знаменует грубое нарушение США и Англией международных обязательств, взятых ими на себя в ходе второй мировой войны и после ее окончания. Этот агрессивный блок явно противоречит основным принципам устава организации Объединенных наций и открыто демонстрирует стремление агрессивных государств к мировому господству, Он служит орудием правящих кругов США и Великобритании в их политике разжигания новой войны.
В качестве вспомогательных военных группировок, призванных наряду с С.-а. с. помочь выполнению экспансионистских планов США, государственный департамент США приступил к созданию и других блоков — Тихоокеанского блока, блока средиземноморских государств и т. д. Еще раньше, в 1947, США сколотили агрессивный союз стран Латинской Америки (см. Рио-де-Жанейро конференция 1947).
Агрессивная политика империалистических держав была разоблачена как в заявлении Министерства иностранных дел СССР о Северо-атлантическом пакте, так и в меморандуме правительства СССР, переданном в конце марта — начале апреля 1949 большинству правительств, подписавших пакт. Показав, что США, Великобритания и Франция отказались от политики сотрудничества с Советским Союзом и другими миролюбивыми странами, Советское правительство констатировало, что «так называемое «новое направление» внешней политики правящих кругов этих государств заключается в том, что они вернулись к тому старому антисоветскому курсу внешней политики, строившейся на проведении изоляции СССР, которого они придерживались в годы, предшествовавшие второй мировой войне, и который чуть не довел цивилизацию Европы до катастрофы».
Сторонники сохранения мира, составляющие большинство населения во всех странах, резко осудили англо-американских поджигателей войны и создаваемые ими блоки. Воля трудящихся Франции, Италии, Англии и других государств к миру была выражена руководителями коммунистических партий и других демократических организаций этих стран, заявивших, что народы Западной Европы никогда не будут воевать против Советского Союза.
В борьбе за мир объединились сотни миллионов трудящихся, которые повели решительную борьбу против С.-а. с, против поджигателей новой мировой войны…. смотреть

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сокращенно НАТО) — военный агрессивный блок ряда капиталистических государств под руководством США, созданный в 1949 году и носящий характер, явно враждебный социалистическим странам. В блок вошли США, Великобритания, Франция, Италия, Бельгия, Голландия, Люксембург, Канада, Норвегия, Дания, Исландия, Португалия. В 1952 году в НАТО вступили Греция, Турция, а в 1954 году и Западная Германия. Договор (пакт) о Северо-атлантическом союзе заключен сроком на 20 лет. Верховный руководящий орган НАТО — Атлантический совет, состоящий из министров (иностранных дел, финансов, обороны, военных министров) каждой из стран — участниц договора. Создано единое верховное командование вооруженными силами НАТО в Европе. Важные командные посты заняли бывшие гитлеровские генералы из возрожденного бундесвера. На территории стран — участниц пакта США создали много военных, военно-воздушных и военно-морских баз, в том числе оборудованных для ведения ракетной войны с применением ядерного вооружения против СССР и других стран социализма. Создание Северо-атлантического союза привело к усилению гонки вооружений и международной напряженности. К 1960 году участники пакта израсходовали на военные нужды около 550 миллиардов долларов. … смотреть

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военно-по- литический блок ряда государств Европы и Северной Америки, созданный в 1949 по инициативе США. Официальное название — «Организация Североатлантического договора» (НАТО). Договор о создании заключен в Вашингтоне 12 странами (Бельгией, Канадой, Данией, Францией, Исландией, Италией, Люксембургом, Нидерландами, Норвегией, Португалией, Англией, США), в 1952 к договору присоединились Греция и Турция, в 1955 — ФРГ, в 1999 — Польша, Венгрия, Чехия. Статья 5 договора устанавливает, что «вооруженное нападение» на одного или нескольких участников договора в Европе или в Северной Америке будет рассматриваться ими «как нападение на все договаривающиеся стороны». Каждая договаривающаяся сторона «окажет стороне или сторонам, подвергшимся такому нападению, помощь путем немедленного принятия, индивидуального и по соглашению с другими договаривающимися сторонами, такого действия, какое оно сочтет необходимым, включая применение вооруженной силы». Статья 6 определяет географическую сферу действия договора, которая охватывает территории всех участников договора, острова «в североатлантическом районе — к северу от тропика Рака», находящиеся под юрисдикцией участников договора, Средиземное море, а также те районы Европы, где в момент вступления договора в силу находились оккупационные войска любой из стран — участниц договора (до 1955 такими районами были Австрия, Западная Германия и Западный Берлин, после 1955 — Западный Берлин). Договор предусматривает консультации между странами-членами «всякий раз, когда, по мнению любой из них, территориальная целостность, политическая независимость или безопасность » окажутся под угрозой (ст. 4). Формулировка этой статьи позволяет любой стране — участнице блока требовать проведения консультаций и принятия в рамках НАТО тех или иных мер, даже в том случае, когда не существует угрозы извне, но, по мнению требующего консультаций государства, его политическая независимость или безопасность «окажется под угрозой». Особенностью договора, вступившего в силу 24 августа 1949, является также то, что он, по толкованию его участников, имеет «неопределенный срок действия ». Согласно ст. 13 любая страна-участница имеет право через 20 лет после его вступления в силу отказаться от участия в договоре и выйти из него через год после уведомления и его денонсации. В ноябре 1968 14 стран — членов НАТО (без Франции) заявили о необходимости «дальнейшего существования» этого блока. Франция сделала оговорку, заявив тогда же, что «если события в предстоящие годы не приведут к коренному изменению в отношениях между Востоком и Западом, то, по мнению французского правительства, Североатлантический союз должен просуществовать так долго, как это будет представляться необходимым ». В 1966 Франция вышла из интегрированной военной организации НАТО, при этом она осталась участницей договора. Место пребывания Совета НАТО было перенесено из Парижа в Брюссель. Главные органы Североатлантического блока: сессии Совета НАТО и Комитета планирования обороны. Текущую работу, а также подготовку и организацию работы руководящих органов НАТО осуществляет Международный секретариат под руководством генерального секретаря НАТО. Генеральный секретарь назначается Советом НАТО и подотчетен ему. Он является председателем Совета и Комитета планирования НАТО независимо от уровня, на котором собираются заседания этих органов, а также председательствует на совещаниях Комитета по делам ядерной обороны, Группы ядерного планирования и других органов НАТО. ГЛ. Шевченко … смотреть

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Договаривающиеся стороны подтверждают свою веру в цели и принципы Устава Организации Объединенных Наций и свое желание жить в мире со всеми народами и правительствами.

Договаривающиеся стороны преисполнены решимости защищать свободу, общее наследие и цивилизацию своих народов, основанные на принципах демократии, свободы личности и законности. Договаривающиеся стороны преследуют цель укрепления стабильности и повышения благосостояния в Североатлантическом регионе. Договаривающиеся стороны полны решимости объединить свои усилия с целью создания коллективной обороны и сохранения мира и безопасности. Поэтому Договаривающиеся стороны достигли соглашения о нижеследующем Североатлантическом договоре:

Статья 1

Договаривающиеся стороны обязуются, в соответствии с Уставом Организации Объединенных Наций, мирно решать все международные споры, участниками которых они могут стать, не ставя при этом под угрозу международные мир, безопасность и справедливость, а также воздерживаться от любого применения силы или угрозы ее применения в своих международных отношениях, если это противоречит целям ООН.

Статья 2

Договаривающиеся стороны будут содействовать дальнейшему развитию международных отношений мира и дружбы путем укрепления своих свободных институтов, достижения большего понимания принципов, на которых они зиждятся, и содействия созданию условий стабильности и благосостояния. Договаривающиеся стороны будут стремиться к устранению противоречий в своей международной экономической политике и способствовать развитию экономического сотрудничества между любыми из них и между собой в целом.

Статья 3

В интересах более эффективного осуществления целей настоящего Договора, Договаривающиеся стороны, порознь и совместно, посредством постоянных и действенных самостоятельных усилий и взаимопомощи, будут поддерживать и наращивать свой индивидуальный и коллективный потенциал борьбы с вооруженным нападением.

Статья 4

Договаривающиеся стороны всегда будут консультироваться друг с другом в случае, если, по мнению какой-либо из них, территориальная целостность, политическая независимость или безопасность какой-либо из Договаривающихся сторон окажутся под угрозой.

Статья 5

Договаривающиеся стороны соглашаются с тем, что вооруженное нападение на одну или нескольких из них в Европе или Северной Америке будет рассматриваться как нападение на них в целом и, следовательно, соглашаются с тем, что в случае если подобное вооруженное нападение будет иметь место, каждая из них, в порядке осуществления права на индивидуальную или коллективную самооборону, признаваемого Статьей 51-ой Устава Организации Объединенных Наций, окажет помощь Договаривающейся стороне, подвергшейся или Договаривающимся сторонам, подвергшимся подобному нападению, путем немедленного осуществления такого индивидуального или совместного действия, которое сочтет необходимым, включая применение вооруженной силы с целью восстановления и последующего сохранения безопасности Североатлантического региона.

О любом подобном вооруженном нападении и всех принятых в результате него мерах немедленно сообщается Совету безопасности. Подобные меры будут прекращены, когда Совет безопасности примет меры, необходимые для восстановления и сохранения международного мира и безопасности.

Статья 6 ¹

В целях Статьи 5-й считается, что вооруженное нападение на одну или несколько Договаривающихся сторон включает в себя вооруженное нападение:

  • на территорию любой из Договаривающихся сторон в Европе или Северной Америке, алжирские департаменты Франции 2, территорию Турции или острова, расположенные в Североатлантической зоне севернее Тропика Рака и находящиеся под юрисдикцией какой-либо из Договаривающихся сторон;
  • на вооруженные силы, суда или летательные аппараты какой-либо из Договаривающихся сторон, если эти вооруженные силы, суда или летательные аппараты находились на этих территориях, или над ними, или в другом районе Европы, или над ним, если на них или в нем на момент вступления в силу настоящего Договора размещались оккупационные силы какой-либо из Договаривающихся сторон, или в Средиземном море, или над ним, или в Североатлантической зоне севернее Тропика Рака, или над ней.

Статья 7

Настоящий Договор ни в коем случае не затрагивает и не подлежит толкованию как затрагивающий каким-либо образом права и обязательства Договаривающихся сторон, являющихся членами Организации Объединенных Наций, по Уставу ООН или преимущественную ответственность Совета безопасности за поддержание международного мира и безопасности.

Статья 8

Каждая Договаривающаяся сторона заявляет, что ни одно из ее действующих международных обязательств в отношении какой-либо другой Договаривающейся стороны, или какого-либо третьего государства, не противоречит положениям настоящего Договора, и обязуется не брать на себя каких-либо международных обязательств, противоречащих настоящему Договору.

Статья 9

Настоящим Договаривающиеся стороны создают Совет, в котором для рассмотрения вопросов, касающихся выполнения настоящего Договора, должна быть представлена каждая из них. Совет подлежит организации таким образом, чтобы иметь возможность быстро собираться в любое время. Совет обязуется создавать вспомогательные органы, в которых может возникнуть необходимость; в частности, он обязуется немедленно создать Комитет обороны, которому надлежит давать рекомендации относительно мер, направленных на выполнение Статей 3 и 5.

Статья 10

Договаривающиеся стороны по всеобщему согласию могут предлагать любому другому европейскому государству, способному развивать принципы настоящего Договора и вносить свой вклад в безопасность Североатлантического региона, присоединиться к настоящему Договору. Любое государство, получившее подобное приглашение, может стать Договаривающейся стороной путем передачи на хранение правительству Соединенных Штатов Америки документа о своем присоединении к настоящему Договору. Правительство Соединенных Штатов Америки будет уведомлять каждую из Договаривающихся сторон о передаче ему на хранение каждого подобного документа о присоединении.

Статья 11

Настоящий Договор подлежит ратификации, а его положения претворению в жизнь, Договаривающимися сторонами согласно их соответствующим конституционным процедурам. Ратификационные грамоты подлежат скорейшей передаче на хранение правительству Соединенных Штатов Америки, которое будет уведомлять все другие государства, подписавшие настоящий Договор, о каждой подобной передаче на хранение Договор подлежит вступлению в силу в отношении уже ратифицировавших его государств с момента передачи ратификационных грамот большинства подписавших договор государств, включая ратификационные грамоты Бельгии, Канады, Люксембурга, Нидерландов, Соединенного Королевства, Соединенных Штатов и Франции, и подлежит вступлению в действие в отношении других государств с момента передачи на хранение их ратификационных грамот 3.

Статья 12

По истечении десятилетнего срока действия настоящего Договора или в любое последующее время Договаривающиеся стороны обязуются по требованию какой-либо из Договаривающихся сторон провести совместные консультации с целью пересмотра настоящего Договора, принимая при этом во внимание факторы, затрагивающие в тот период мир и безопасность в Североатлантическом регионе, включая разработку в соответствии с Уставом ООН мероприятий глобального и регионального характера по поддержанию всеобщего мира и безопасности.

Статья 13

По истечении двадцатилетнего срока действия настоящего Договора любая Договаривающаяся сторона может выйти из него через год после того, как она уведомит правительство Соединенных Штатов Америки о расторжении ею настоящего Договора, которое будет сообщать правительствам всех других Договаривающихся сторон о вручении ему на хранение каждого уведомления о расторжении настоящего Договора.

Статья 14

Настоящий Договор, английский и французский тексты которого имеют одинаковую силу, подлежит сдаче на хранение в архив правительства Соединенных Штатов Америки. Должным образом заверенные копии настоящего Договора будут переданы вышеупомянутым правительством правительствам других государств, подписавших настоящий Договор.

Сноски:
  1. В Статью внесены изменения в соответствии со Статьей 2 Протокола Североатлантического договора о присоединении к нему Греции и Турции.
  2. 16 января 1933 г. Североатлантический совет отметил, что 3 июля 1962 г. соответствующие положения настоящего Договора в отношении алжирских департаментов Франции потеряли юридическую силу.
  3. Настоящий Договор вступил в силу 24 августа 1949 г. после передачи на хранение ратификационных грамот всех подписавших его государств.

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