The North Atlantic Treaty Organization or the NATO has announced that its next summit will take place July 8-9, 2016 in Warsaw, Poland. The announcement was made by NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg. US President Barack Obama and other NATO leaders last met in Wales in September. They agreed on a Readiness Action Plan to adapt the 28-nation alliance to the new security environment.
The leaders have agreed to organize their next NATO summit in Warsaw, which is a symbolic location. It was the capital of a former Soviet satellite state that now belongs to NATO.
Tidbits
- NATO is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949.
- NATO’s headquarters are in Brussels, Belgium.
- Totally there are 28 member states in NATO.
- The member states had agreed that an armed attack against any one of them in Europe or North America would be considered an attack against them all.
GK Questions
- What is the official Motto of NATO? The motto is Animus in consulendo liber. It means “A mind unfettered in deliberation”.
- The last two countries to join in NATO are? Albania and Croatia (Joined in April 2009).
- How many of NATO’s members are nuclear weapons states? What are they? Three. They are France, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
