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Article 5 of the Washington Treaty, which is the basic agreement of NATO and defines the principle of collective defense. This means that an attack on one of the NATO member countries is considered an attack on all member countries.
This principle is considered one of the main ones for NATO and was used only once - after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 against the United States.
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