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North Atlantic Treaty OrganizationNorth Atlantic Treaty Organization: Travel tips, articles, photos, gallery, cities database, population, pics, flags, statistics, free maps onlineThe North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO); French: Organisation du Traité de l'Atlantique Nord (OTAN); (also called the North Atlantic Alliance, the Atlantic Alliance, or the Western Alliance) is a military alliance, established by the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on 4 April 1949. With headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, the organization established a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defence in response to an attack by any external party. |
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