History of NATO Atlantic Treaty, which was signed by US President Harry S. Truman in Washington on 4 April 1949. It included the five Treaty of Brussels states plus the United States, Canada, Portugal, Italy, Norway, Denmark and Iceland. The first NATO Secretary General, Lord Ismay, stated in 1949 that the organization's goal was "to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down". Popular support for the Treaty was not unanimous, and some Icelanders participated in a pro-neutrality, anti-membership riot in March 1949. The creation of NATO can be seen as the primary institutional consequence of a school of thought
Azerbaijan–NATO relations on March 7, 2008.Azerbaijan has completed NATO-Azerbaijan IPAP documents for the first (2005-2007), second (2008-2010), third (2011-2013), and the fourth period (2015-2016). Member countries of NATO supported Azerbaijan's territorial integrity under the Declarations issued at the meeting of NAC held in Riga on 28–29 November 2006, at the NATO/EAPC and ISAF format Summits held in Bucharest on 2–4 April 2008, at the Strasbourg-Kehl Summit of NATO held on 3–4 April 2009. The President of Azerbaijan participated in the Meetings of Heads of States and Governments on Afghanistan during the NATO Summit in Chicago in 2012, in Wales in September 2014,