NATO OTAN NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION LAPEL HAT PIN for Sale

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NATO OTAN NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION LAPEL HAT PIN For Sale

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NATO OTAN NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION LAPEL HAT PIN:
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NATO OTANNORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATIONLAPEL or HAT PIN
OTAN is the abbreviationforOrganisation du Traité de l'Atlantique Nord, which is the French language for the organization.
The pin is 1" in diameter. It is a high quality ceramic on metal pin, with a gold color back and butterfly clip.There are 28 member countries in NATO. They are (sorted by year joined, and alphabeticallywithin years):
BELGIUM (1949),CANADA (1949),DENMARK (1949),FRANCE (1949),ICELAND (1949),ITALY (1949),LUXEMBOURG (1949),NETHERLANDS (1949)NORWAY (1949),PORTUGAL (1949),THE UNITED KINGDOM (1949)THE UNITED STATES (1949),GREECE (1952),TURKEY (1952),GERMANY (1955)SPAIN (1982),CZECH REPUBLIC (1999),HUNGARY (1999),POLAND (1999)BULGARIA (2004),ESTONIA (2004),LATVIA (2004),LITHUANIA (2004)ROMANIA (2004),SLOVAKIA (2004),SLOVENIA (2004),ALBANIA (2009)
NATO’s essential purpose is to safeguard the freedom and security of its members through political and military means.
POLITICAL - NATO promotes democratic values and encourages consultation and cooperation on defense and security issues to build trust and, in the long run, prevent conflict.
MILITARY - NATO is committed to the peaceful resolution of disputes. If diplomatic efforts fail, it has the military capacity needed to undertake crisis-management operations. These are carried out under Article 5 of the Washington Treaty - NATO’s founding treaty - or under a United Nations mandate, alone or in cooperation with other countries and international organizations.
From Wikipedia:
"NATO was little more than a political association until the Korean War galvanized the organization's member states, and an integrated military structure was built up under the direction of two US supreme commanders. The course of the Cold War led to a rivalry with nations of the Warsaw Pact, which formed in 1955. Doubts over the strength of the relationship between the European states and the United States ebbed and flowed, along with doubts over the credibility of the NATO defense against a prospective Soviet invasion—doubts that led to the development of the independent French nuclear deterrent and the withdrawal of France from NATO's military structure in 1966 for 30 years. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the organization was drawn into the breakup of Yugoslavia, and conducted its first military interventions in Bosnia from 1992 to 1995 and later Yugoslavia in 1999. Politically, the organization sought better relations with former Warsaw Pact countries, several of which joined the alliance in 1999 and 2004.
"Article 5 of the North Atlantic treaty, requiring member states to come to the aid of any member state subject to an armed attack, was invoked for the first and only time after the September 11 attacks,[6] after which troops were deployed to Afghanistan under the NATO-led ISAF. The organization has operated a range of additional roles since then, including sending trainers to Iraq, assisting in counter-piracy operations[7] and in 2011 enforcing a no-fly zone over Libya in accordance with U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973. The less potent Article 4, which merely invokes consultation among NATO members, has been invoked five times: by Turkey in 2003 over the Iraq War; twice in 2012 by Turkey over the Syrian Civil War, after the downing of an unarmed Turkish F-4 reconnaissance jet, and after a mortar was fired at Turkey from Syria;[8] in 2014 by Poland, following the Russian intervention in Crimea;[9] and again by Turkey in 2015 after threats by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant to its territorial integrity.[10]"