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Major non-NATO ally

February 7, 2022
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In news– Recently,  the United States has decided to designate Qatar as a major non-NATO ally.

About Major Non-NATO Allies (MNNA) status-

  • It is a designation under U.S. law that provides foreign partners with certain benefits in the areas of defense trade and security cooperation.
  • It is a powerful symbol of the close relationship the United States shares with those countries and demonstrates our deep respect for the friendship for the countries to which it is extended.  
  • Unlike a NATO ally, whose defence becomes the collective responsibility of the alliance, the designation does not entail a defence commitment — but it enables a country to access military and financial advantages.
  • The MNNA status was first created in 1987. The initial MNNAs were Australia, Egypt, Israel, Japan, and South Korea.
  • Brazil was the latest country to be granted this status in 2020. 
  • More than 18 nations, including Australia, Bahrain, Japan, Kuwait, and the Philippines, are currently designated as major non-NATO allies by the United States.

Benefits of MNNA status-

    • It confers a variety of military and financial advantages that otherwise are not obtainable by non-NATO countries, depending on the version of the amendment that is eventually signed by the President. 
    • It permits firms of a country to bid on certain US government contracts for maintenance, repair or overhaul of Department of Defence (DOD) equipment outside the continental US.
    • Makes a country eligible for certain joint counterterrorism research and development projects.
    • Allows DOD to enter into cooperative R&D projects with the country to improve conventional defence capabilities on an equitable cost-sharing basis.
    • Makes a nation eligible for priority delivery of excess defence articles if it is on the South or Southeastern flank of NATO.
    • Makes a nation eligible to buy depleted uranium ammunition.
    • Makes the country eligible to have U.S.-owned War Reserve Stockpiles on its territory outside of US military installations.
    • Allows the country to use US-provided foreign military financing for commercial leasing of certain defence articles.
    • Makes a country eligible for loans of materials, supplies and equipment for cooperative R&D projects and testing and evaluation.
    • Makes a country eligible for expedited processing of export licenses of commercial satellites, their technologies, components, and systems.

About NATO-

  • The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) is an intergovernmental military alliance of 30 North American and European states.
  • The alliance came into existence following the 1949 North Atlantic Treaty.
  • NATO’s Headquarters are located in Evere, Brussels, Belgium, while the headquarters of Allied Command Operations is near Mons, Belgium.
  • The aim of the alliance is to constitute a system of collective defence whereby members agree to mutual defence in response to an external attack.

Further reading: https://journalsofindia.com/north-atlantic-treaty-organization-nato/

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Source: Hindustan Times
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