Organization ( NATO ) is a military cooperative consisting of 28 countries between North America , South America , and Europe . The stated goals of NATO are to use democratic means to work through struggle and prevent conflict , and , when necessary , to band together in military support of a member country . The treaty compels each member nation to respond in support of another member nation when they are attacked .
As reported earlier , Russian State Duma members Valery Rashkin and Sergei Obukhov petitioned to President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov , and proposed to sever the brotherhood and friendship treaty ( Treaty of Moscow ) , which the then Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ( Bolshevist Russia ) and Turkey had signed in 1921 . In their respective letter , the said Russian MPs point to the consistency in Turkey ’s aggressive behavior . Pursuant to the 1921 Treatygovernment.agreements.violateagreementof Moscow , most of Kars Province , southern part of former Batumi Province , and Surmalu District — along with Mount Ararat — of Yerevan Province were given to Turkey .
Join 159 other nations in signing the Ottawa treaty banning the use of anti - personnel land mines . Lead on global nuclear disarmament : Rejoin the Anti - Ballistic Missile Treatygovernment.agreements.violateagreement, which the US dropped out of in 2002 when it installed missiles and missile bases in Turkey , Romania , and Poland . Agree to Russia ’s proposal to jointly reduce US and Russian nuclear arsenals to 1,000 nuclear weapons each . Also call for all countries to the table to negotiate a treaty for the complete elimination of nuclear weapons .
In 2014 , the Marshall Islands – a Pacific Ocean territory with 55,000 people – accused nine countries of “ not fulfilling their obligations with respect to the cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament ” . They included China , Britain , France , India , Israel , North Korea , Pakistan , Russia and the United States . The government , based in the Marshall Islands capital of Majuro , said by not stopping the nuclear arms race , the countries continued to breach their obligations under the Nuclear Non - Proliferation Treatygovernment.agreements.violateagreement( NPT ) – even if the treaty has not been signed by countries such as India and Pakistan . The Marshall Islands had decided to sue the world ’s nuclear heavyweights as “ it has a particular awareness of the dire consequences of nuclear weapons ” , it said . Between 1946 and 1958 the United States conducted repeated nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands , Majuro ’s representatives said in papers filed in court .