Greece is the only NATO member state that has strong traditional military ties with Russia.

Just because Turkey is a NATO member state does not mean that the country should also be able to join the European Union.

But there are also many nations that supported the military operation known as Desert Storm, including Egypt, Syria and even Turkey, a NATO member state.

On of its main aims was to keep the Italian Communist Party - the biggest communist party in a NATO member state - away from power.

For this purpose, every NATO member state delegates its military formations - fast response, well-armed and well-equipped units capable to operate beyond the NATO's borders.

On Sept. 17, Polish inspectors in the Netherlands carried out the first inspection of a NATO member state by a unit from a Warsaw Pact country.

The ruling Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro and Social Democratic Party of Montenegro maintain a strong desire for Montenegro to become NATO member state.

The president of a troubled NATO member state that was the rump of a once great empire sought out his opposite number from stable, prosperous Sweden and made small talk about his last visit to Stockholm.

It also served as an important strategic area during the Cold War, sharing borders with both Turkey (a NATO member state) and Iran (a close ally of the West until the Iranian Revolution of 1979).

Péter Balázs Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs - cutting his vacation short - called in the Slovak ambassador Peter Weiss and protested the unprecedented act coming from an EU and NATO member state.

- (SK) Madam President, even if the negotiations of NATO member state representatives in Lisbon have resolved a number of serious topics regarding security risks in today's world, the significance of some of the conclusions and decisions will surely have a more dramatic effect on the current political world.