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  • initialism Alternative spelling of NATO.

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Examples

  • The Pan African Parliament, the legislative body of the African Union, plans an emergency session next week to discuss what it calls Nato's "military aggression".

    WalesOnline - Home 2011

  • This did give me an idea, how about a bob sleigh with a long shield, four officers (all in Nato helmets) and an enforcer tied on the back for extra weight?

    Inspector Gadget – 3 Million Hits! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

  • Balkenende has international ambitions and embarrassing Nato is not a good way to get an international promotion.

    Matthew Yglesias » Amateurish Dutch Political Analysis 2010

  • She is absolutely right when she says that each country has to be able to make its appropriate contribution to common defence in Nato and Britain will always do that.

    Hillary Clinton 'worried' by UK defence cuts Nicholas Watt 2010

  • Pakistan blocked the main Nato supply route into Afghanistan this morning after reports that a Nato helicopter killed three of its soldiers in the second cross-border intrusion in five days.

    Pakistan blocks Nato supply route to Afghanistan Declan Walsh in Islamabad 2010

  • Fox dismissed media concerns about British forces potentially coming under French command, pointing out that they could already come under orders from a range of countries in Nato operations and had served under French command as part of the Nato force in the Balkans.

    Liam Fox: Anglo-French defence treaty will not compromise UK sovereignty Richard Norton-Taylor 2010

  • Nato is negotiating with Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan to allow supplies for Nato forces, including fuel, to cross borders into Afghanistan from the north.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Strategy Gap in Afghanistan 2008

  • Just as a new understanding of a post-Soviet Russia has to be absorbed, so also, a new realisation of what Nato is and does and does not do has to be discovered.

    18 « August « 2008 « Niqnaq 2008

  • The first indication we had that in Nato we were not dealing simply with a military protocol was when the Canadian General in Bosnia under Nato mandate raped a Muslim girl.

    18 « August « 2008 « Niqnaq 2008

  • The US Atlantic Council began its report with the words: “Nato is not winning in Afghanistan” and talks of a stalemate.

    Balloon Juice » 2008 » January 2008

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