Post by Aden Allett on Aug 20, 2008 6:30:51 GMT 1
Of NATO
So if you didn't already know it. Here are the other NATO member countries.
www.nato.int/structur/countries.htm
It's a really good link if you ever wanted all the web sites and links to all the member governments all around the world.
And it was decided today by an emergency council meeting this morning that article #5 and #6 will apply to Georgia and that Georgia is crucial to the NATO alliance and will one day be a NATO member too!
See articles here ---> www.nato.int/docu/basictxt/treaty.htm
Article 5
The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defense recognized by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area.
Any such armed attack and all measures taken as a result thereof shall immediately be reported to the Security Council. Such measures shall be terminated when the Security Council has taken the measures necessary to restore and maintain international peace and security.
Article 6 (1)
For the purpose of Article 5, an armed attack on one or more of the Parties is deemed to include an armed attack:
on the territory of any of the Parties in Europe or North America, on the Algerian Departments of France (2), on the territory of or on the Islands under the jurisdiction of any of the Parties in the North Atlantic area north of the Tropic of Cancer;
on the forces, vessels, or aircraft of any of the Parties, when in or over these territories or any other area in Europe in which occupation forces of any of the Parties were stationed on the date when the Treaty entered into force or the Mediterranean Sea or the North Atlantic area north of the Tropic of Cancer.
What does this mean to you? Well since the Russian bear has decided to make a power play while NATO countries/US forces are stretched thin in the "War on Terror". They have invaded and are currently occupying a sovereign country (Georgia) and defying a signed peace and withdrawal treaty, as well as targeting other NATO allies with threats of 100% chance of nuclear attack on Poland (A staunch NATO ally).
www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/08/19/georgia.russia.war/index.html
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,404221,00.html
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,405963,00.html
Discuss.
So if you didn't already know it. Here are the other NATO member countries.
www.nato.int/structur/countries.htm
It's a really good link if you ever wanted all the web sites and links to all the member governments all around the world.
And it was decided today by an emergency council meeting this morning that article #5 and #6 will apply to Georgia and that Georgia is crucial to the NATO alliance and will one day be a NATO member too!
See articles here ---> www.nato.int/docu/basictxt/treaty.htm
Article 5
The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defense recognized by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area.
Any such armed attack and all measures taken as a result thereof shall immediately be reported to the Security Council. Such measures shall be terminated when the Security Council has taken the measures necessary to restore and maintain international peace and security.
Article 6 (1)
For the purpose of Article 5, an armed attack on one or more of the Parties is deemed to include an armed attack:
on the territory of any of the Parties in Europe or North America, on the Algerian Departments of France (2), on the territory of or on the Islands under the jurisdiction of any of the Parties in the North Atlantic area north of the Tropic of Cancer;
on the forces, vessels, or aircraft of any of the Parties, when in or over these territories or any other area in Europe in which occupation forces of any of the Parties were stationed on the date when the Treaty entered into force or the Mediterranean Sea or the North Atlantic area north of the Tropic of Cancer.
What does this mean to you? Well since the Russian bear has decided to make a power play while NATO countries/US forces are stretched thin in the "War on Terror". They have invaded and are currently occupying a sovereign country (Georgia) and defying a signed peace and withdrawal treaty, as well as targeting other NATO allies with threats of 100% chance of nuclear attack on Poland (A staunch NATO ally).
www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/08/19/georgia.russia.war/index.html
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,404221,00.html
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,405963,00.html
Discuss.
