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21/03/24 05:21 AM IST

NATO’s DIANA Program

In News
  • Recently, the DIANA initiative board approved a proposal to establish an accelerator and two test centers in Finland, with a mission to foster technology, innovation, and business development for both civil and defence purposes.
About DIANA
  • DIANA is a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) established organization to accelerate dual-use innovation capacity across the Alliance.
  • It provides companies with resources, networks, and guidance to develop deep technologies for critical defence and security challenges.
  • All NATO nations are members of DIANA.
  • The DIANA Board of Directors is responsible for governance and comprises representatives from every Allied country.
About NATO
  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is a military alliance established by the North Atlantic Treaty (also called the Washington Treaty) of April, 1949, by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union.
  • There are currently 30 member states.
  • Its original members were Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
  • Joining the original signatories were Greece and Turkey (1952), West Germany (1955, from 1990 as Germany), Spain (1982), the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland (1999), Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia (2004), Albania and Croatia (2009), Montenegro (2017), and North Macedonia (2020).
  • France withdrew from the integrated military command of NATO in 1966 but remained a member of the organization, it resumed its position in NATO’s military command in 2009.
  • Recently, Finland and Sweden have shown interest to join NATO.
  • Headquarters: Brussels, Belgium.
Source- Financial Express

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