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NATO TIMELINE SINCE 1992 - Coggle Diagram
NATO TIMELINE SINCE 1992
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1993 - Nato agrees to offer former Warsaw Pact members limited associations with the alliance in the form of the Partnership for Peace programme.
1995 - Nato embarks on its first-ever military operation by launching a campaign of air strikes against Bosnian Serb positions to force the Bosnian Serbs to negotiate a peace settlement; Nato deploys thousands of troops - the Implementation Force (Ifor) - to monitor and enforce a ceasefire in Bosnia
1997 - Ifor is replaced by a smaller force called the Stabilisation Force (Sfor); Nato and Russia sign the Founding Act to establish a framework for security cooperation Nato-Russia Permanent Joint Council set up to give Russia "a voice but no veto"..
1999 - The Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland become the first former Soviet bloc states to join Nato, taking the alliance's borders some 400 miles towards Russia.
2003 October - Nato launches 9,000-member rapid-reaction force which can be deployed anywhere in the world at short notice.
2001 September - After 11 September attacks on targets in the US, Secretary-General Robertson invokes Article Five of the alliance's constitution spelling out that an attack on one is seen as an attack on all. However, Washington chooses not to involve Nato in the US-led military campaign which follows.
2003 February - France, Germany and Belgium temporarily block US move to offer military support to Turkey in event of war in Iraq. They say it amounts to military planning and thus could undermine diplomatic efforts to avoid conflict.
2004 March - Bulgaria, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia formally welcomed in Washington as new members.
2004 December - Nato hands over peacekeeping duties in Bosnia to a new European Union-led force, Eufor. International Court of Justice says it has no jurisdiction in a case brought by Serbia and Montenegro challenging the legality of Nato's 1999 bombing of the then Yugoslavia during the Kosovo crisis.
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2005 December - Nato foreign ministers agree to expand the alliance's role in Afghanistan. Plans include the deployment of thousands more troops in the south.
2008 May - Nato members Germany, Slovakia, Latvia, Lithuania, Italy and Spain to staff and fund new cyber defence centre in Estonia, which last year blamed Russia for weeks of attacks on its internet structure.
2009 March - Nato says that high-level contacts with Russia will be resumed after Nato's 60th anniversary summit. French President Nicolas Sarkozy announces that France is to return to Nato's military command.
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2009 April - Nato's 60th anniversary summit. Albania and Croatia are formally inducted, increasing membership to 28.
2010 October - Nato foreign and defence ministers meet to discuss a proposed new "strategic concept" or mission statement for the alliance, drawn up by Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
2011 March - UN Security Council approves imposition of no-fly zone over Libya to protect civilians from Col Gaddafi's forces. Nato agrees to take on responsibility for enforcing the no-fly zone.
2011 July - Nato Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen says the Libya missions is extended for another three months and will continue to be extended for as long as necessary. He says the Gaddafi government should not try to "wait Nato out".
2011 October - Nato formally ends its Libya mission after the fall of the last Gaddafi stronghold, and offers to help the new government with security matters.
2011 November - Pakistan halts Nato ground supplies to Afghanistan after a Nato airstrike kills 24 of its troops.
2012 February - A leaked Nato reports says the Afghan Taliban are helped by Pakistani security services and enjoy wide public support, causing a rift with the Pakistani government and raising questions about the organisation's continuing role in Afghanistan.
2014 September - US President Barack Obama visits Estonia to reassure the Baltic states that they can count on Nato protection, amid concerns about Russia's recent seizure of Crimea in Ukraine.
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