 | Sean Kay - 1998 - 226 pages
...to the security of the North Atlantic area to accede to this Treaty."50 The relevant principles are "to safeguard the freedom, common heritage and civilization...of democracy, individual liberty, and the rule of law."51 NATO expanded three times during the Cold War — to include Greece and Turkey (1952), West... | |
 | Paul Cornish - 1997 - 150 pages
...Certainly, the preamble to the North Atlantic Treaty of April 1949 expressed the signatories' determination to 'safeguard the freedom, common heritage and civilization...principles of democracy, individual liberty and the rule of law'. And in Article 2 of the treaty the evangelizing signatories committed themselves to 'bringing... | |
 | Gerald Irving Anthony Dare Draper - 1998 - 322 pages
...which we may be engaged. These purposes are well expressed in the North Atlantic Treaty preamble: " ... to safeguard the freedom, common heritage and civilization...of democracy, individual liberty, and the rule of law". The Geneva Conventions and the Law of War are part of that rule of law and are likely to remain... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations - 1998 - 184 pages
...since its establishment by the 1949 Washington Treaty, NATO has always identified itself as an alliance founded on the principles of democracy, individual liberty and the rule of law. During the accession process, each new member will reiterate its support for these principles.... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations - 1999 - 176 pages
...organization to defend the territories of its member states against all external threats; Whereas NATO, founded on the principles of democracy, individual liberty, and the rule of law, has proved an indispensable instrument for forging a trans-Atlantic community of nations working... | |
 | Martin A. Smith - 2000 - 194 pages
...'the Parties to this Treaty are determined to safeguard the freedom, common heritage and civilisation of their peoples, founded on the principles of democracy, individual liberty and the rule of law'. NATO's critics can point, with some justification, to member states such as Portugal, Greece... | |
 | Christopher Hill, Karen Elizabeth Smith - 2000 - 518 pages
...and all governments. They are determined to safeguard the freedom, common heritage and civilisation of their peoples, founded on the principles of democracy, individual liberty and the rule of law. They seek to promote stability and well-being in the North Atlantic area. They are revived to... | |
 | Alex Roney - 2000 - 374 pages
...some Baltic states. NATO's aims are to safeguard the freedom, common heritage, and civilization of its peoples, founded on the principles of democracy, individual liberty and the rule of law. The Organization is intended to be an insurance for peace. Defence has priority, but the NATO... | |
 | Peter Duignan - 2000 - 164 pages
...community was determined "to safeguard the freedom, common heritage and civilization of their people founded on the principles of democracy, individual liberty and the rule of law." English became NATO's unofficial language. Traditional national jurisdictions had to be modified... | |
 | John Ashley Soames Grenville - 2001 - 482 pages
...Nations and their desire to live in peace with all peoples and all Governments. They are determined to safeguard the freedom, common heritage and civilization...principles of democracy, individual liberty and the rule of law. They seek to promote stability and wellbeing in the North Atlantic area. They are resolved to... | |
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They are determined to safeguard the freedom, common heritage and civilization of their peoples, founded on the principles of democracy, individual liberty and the rule of law. 
