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Article 5 of the Washington Treaty, which is the foundational agreement 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 regarded as one of the cornerstones for NATO and has been invoked only once - after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, against the United States.
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