Italy is amongst the 12 founding members of NATO, established in 1949 with the Washington Treaty signed by Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. Since the beginning, Italy has been a driving force in the Alliance, particularly during the Cold War, thus showing full adherence to the principles of unity and solidarity.<\/p>\n
In the last 30 years, NATO\u2019s internal structure and objectives have been transformed: from the bipolar world created by the Cold War to a comprehensive approach to security. In this regard, Italy has been fully committed not only by taking part to deterrence and defence activities and NATO operations and missions around the world, but also by strengthening NATO\u2019s partnership relations with Partnership for Peace (PfP)<\/a> nations, the Mediterranean Dialogue<\/a>, the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative<\/a> and Partners across the globe<\/a>, as well as with other international organizations such as the United Nations, the European Union and the OSCE.<\/p>\n From Afghanistan to Kosovo, from Iraq to Libya, passing through counter-piracy and the fight against international terrorism, Italy has always provided its support in terms of economic and human resources to NATO\u2019s main operations and missions<\/a>, especially in light of its crucial role in ensuring stability to the borders of the Alliance, actively working in the entire Mediterranean basin, in the Balkans and in the Middle East.<\/p>\n Specifically, on the operational level, Italy firmly supported the missions in Bosnia in the 90s, in Afghanistan (2001-2021) and it still plays a key role in Iraq<\/a> and Kosovo<\/a>. Today, Italy confirms its crucial role in the Mediterranean, also thanks to the establishment of the Hub for the South<\/a> at the Allied Joint Force Command Naples<\/a>, with essential functions of monitoring and gathering of strategic information in the Southern Flank. Besides, Italy plays a fundamental role in Air Policing operations in different areas, such as the Balkans and the Baltic States.<\/p>\n Italy hosts on its territory several Allied bodies, such as:<\/p>\n Moreover, several NATO Centres of Excellence have been accredited in Italy: the Modelling and Simulation Centre<\/a> in Rome, the Security Force Assistance Centre<\/a> in Cesano (Rome) and the Stability Policing Centre<\/a> in Vicenza.<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Italy is amongst the 12 founding members of NATO, established in 1949 with the Washington Treaty signed by Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. Since the beginning, Italy has been a driving force in the Alliance, particularly during the Cold War, […]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-32","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rappnato.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rappnato.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rappnato.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rappnato.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rappnato.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rappnato.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1585,"href":"https:\/\/rappnato.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions\/1585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rappnato.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n