North Atlantic Pact NATO celebrated its 75th anniversary in Brussels on Thursday.
NATO Foreign Ministers met at NATO Headquarters on Thursday to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty, the Alliance's founding document.
The alliance, which included a dozen countries when it was founded in 1949, now includes 32 Allies and a billion people on both sides of the Atlantic.
This year's NATO Day comes just weeks after Sweden joined the Alliance as its thirty-second member.
Making a speech on the occasion of the anniversary, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said he welcomed the fact that "NATO is bigger, stronger and more united than ever".
Welcoming that the celebrations, normally held in Washington, were held for the first time at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Stoltenberg said: "Never has a single document with so few words meant so much to so many people." So much security, so much prosperity and so much peace. “All of this is thanks to our solemn promise to stand together and protect each other, as we have for 75 years.” said.