The anniversary comes as the now-32-nation alliance weighs a plan to provide more predictable longer-term military support to Ukraine.
marked on Thursday 75 years of collective defense across Europe and North America, with its top diplomats vowing to stay the course in Ukraine as better-armed Russian troops assert control on the battlefield. Plagued by ammunition shortages, Ukraine this week lowered the military conscription age from 27 to 25 in an effort to replenish its depleted ranks and appealed for additional air defenses to counter Russian ballistic missile attacks.
's founding treaty was signed: April 4, 1949, in Washington. A bigger celebration is planned when Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said with a smile. “Just 14 paragraphs over a few pages. Never has a single document with so few words meant so much to so many people. So much security. So much prosperity, and so much peace.” Sweden’s foreign minister, Tobias Billström, was taking part in the first ministerial-level meeting since his country became
was expanding closer to Russia’s borders. The alliance’s ranks have almost tripled from its 12 founding members, but Finland and Sweden joined in record time to shelter under would count its 1999 air campaign against former Yugoslavia to end a bloody crackdown on separatist ethnic Albanians and its effort to avert near civil war in Macedonia in 2001. At the other end of the scale lies the operation in Afghanistan.
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