North Atlantic Treaty Organization

noun

1. the full name of NATO

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

1. An international organization, begun in 1949. The members have pledged to settle disputes among themselves peacefully and to defend one another against outside aggressors. The founding members of NATO are Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Britain, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, and the United States. Greece, Spain, Turkey, and Germany became members later. France was a founding member, but withdrew from NATO's military command in 1967. The Warsaw Pact was signed by the Soviet Union and its allies largely in response to the formation of NATO. Since the end of the cold war, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland have joined.

Example Sentences

A member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Turkey has sent weapons to Ukraine while maintaining a robust economic relationship with Russia and attempting to act as a peacemaker.

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Russian fighter jets and drones are testing the boundaries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, engaging in gray-zone warfare in Estonia, Poland, Romania and perhaps Denmark.

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He also insisted that Nato, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, remains unified over the war in Ukraine, despite differences of opinion expressed recently by both Hungary and Slovakia.

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As for Greenland, a self-governing territory of North Atlantic Treaty Organization ally Denmark, Trump proclaimed, “One way or the other, we’re going to get it.”

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The Trump administration has ruled out contributing U.S. forces to that effort, and the president has said Ukraine can “forget about” joining North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a longtime goal of Kyiv opposed by Putin.

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