{"id":11370,"date":"2023-05-29T07:09:21","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T01:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=11370"},"modified":"2025-03-30T02:11:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T20:41:34","slug":"what-is-nato-plus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-nato-plus\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Nato Plus?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Nato Plus:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>grouping of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and five countries<\/strong>, including <strong>Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Israel<\/strong>, and <strong>South Korea<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The group works toward <strong>boosting global defence cooperation<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Advantages for India by becoming a member of NATO Plus:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>India would <strong>gain access to seamless intelligence sharing<\/strong> between these countries.<\/li>\n<li>India would get <strong>access to the latest military technology<\/strong> without\u00a0 much of a time lag.<\/li>\n<li>It would further <strong>strengthen India\u2019s defence partnership with the United States.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What is North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is <strong>a transatlantic alliance of 31 <\/strong>like-minded <strong>North American and European countries<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It was <strong>established by the North Atlantic Treaty<\/strong> (also called the <strong>Washington Treaty<\/strong>) on April 4, <strong>1949<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Aim<\/strong>: To protect peace and to <strong>guarantee the territorial integrity, political independence<\/strong> and <strong>security of the member states<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Article Five of the treaty:<\/strong> <strong>If an armed attack occurs against one<\/strong> of the member states, it <strong>should be considered an attack against all members<\/strong>, and other <strong>members shall assist the attacked membe<\/strong>r, with armed forces if necessary.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Headquarters: Brussels, Belgium.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a transatlantic alliance of 31 like-minded North American and European countries. It was established by the North Atlantic Treaty (also called the Washington Treaty) on April 4, 1949.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/us-congressional-committee-recommends-strengthening-nato-plus-with-india-to-counter-chinese-communist-party-s-strategic-competition-101685210608532.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Ahead of PM Modi&#8217;s visit, US House panel suggests Nato Plus status for India<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nato Plus is a grouping of NATO and Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Israel, and South Korea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}