NATO

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• Along with Austria, Ireland, Cyprus and Malta, Finland and Sweden are two EU states that are not members of NATO yet. Since the end of the Second World War, both countries remained militarily neutral.
  
  
• The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 28 European countries and 2 North American countries.
  
  
• Established in the aftermath of World War II, the organization implements the North Atlantic Treaty that was signed on 4 April 1949.
  
  
• NATO constitutes a system of collective security, whereby its independent member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.
  
  
• The NATO headquarters are located in Brussels, Belgium, while the headquarters of Allied Command Operations is near Mons, Belgium.