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Norway and NATO

Jens Stoltenberg

  • 13th Secretary General of NATO
  • successor of Anders Fogh Rasmussen
  • Stoltenberg is the first Norwegian to serve as Secretary-General
  • Stoltenberg stated that Russia's invasion of Ukraine was a "brutal reminder of the necessity of NATO," stating that Russia's actions in Ukraine represented "the first time since the Second World War that a country has annexed a territory belonging to another country."
  • He emphasized the necessity for NATO to have a strong military and nuclear power in order to stop Russia from breaking international law

Background Information on Norway and NATO

Contributions Norway has Made

Why is Norway a part of NATO?

  • Norway is among the 12 founding countries of the Northern Atlantic Treaty.
  • Was the first NATO country to enlist women into the army
  • As of October 1, 2014, Jens Stoltenberg was appointed to become the the treaty organization's secretary general and chairman of the North Atlantic Council
  • Norway's bounty of energy resources which has been able to spare its armed forces from drastic cuts, which have been the order of the day across much of the Alliance
  • Norway has managed to keeps its politics civil
  • Enables effective decision making and political leadership
  • Among the other countries, issues are turbulent on how to solve for a positive outcome
  • An example of this is the attack by a right-wing extremist in the summer of 2011, which killed close to 70 people
  • Due to Norway's calm and effective neutrality, the issue was easily solved among the countries of NATO
  • Norway has also been an active player in the transatlantic community on the political front
  • On April 4, 1949 Norway among 11 other countries formed a union
  • NATO was established to discourage Communist aggression, and also to keep the peace among former enemies in Western Europe
  • Specifically designed to deter an attack and keep peace
  • Among NATO there is an agreement, each member country is to treat an attack on any other member as an attack on itself, henceforth defend on another
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