...the Western Hemisphere against aggression. The essence of the treaty was expressed in the commitment that 'an armed attack by any State against an American...State shall be considered as an attack against all'. Chile was one of the 20 Latin American states that joined the US in signing the Rio Treaty.92 More...

...OF 87TH CONG.— 2ND SESS. Oct. 3 CUBA— US POLICY PUBLIC LAW 87-733 ; 76 STAT. 697 [SJ Res. 230] Joint Resolution expressing the determination of the...against all the American States, and. consequently, pach one of the said contracting parties undertakes to assist in meeting the attack in the exercise...

...regional collective security mechanism for the Western Hemisphere. Article 1 of the Rio Treaty specifies that "an armed attack by any state against an American...State shall be considered as an attack against all of the American States," and each of the signatories undertook to help repel such an assault. Article...

...collective security operations in the Americas. Article 3 of the Treaty states that the signatories 'agree that an armed attack by any state against an American state shall be considered an attack against all the 49 French, HW, 'As war factions shatter, Liberia falls into chaos', New York...

...September 2, 1947. Under the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, 19 Republics have now agreed that an armed attack by any state against an...as an attack against all the American states, and each undertakes to assist in meeting that attack.13 For the first time, we have attempted a definition...

...North Atlantic Treaty of 1949. The basic purpose of the Rio Treaty, stated in Article 3, is that 'an attack by any State against an American State shall...as an attack against all the American States,' and that each of the Contracting Parties undertakes to assist in meeting the attack in the inherent right...

...and to deal with threats of aggression against any of them. In Article 3(1), the signatories agree that "an armed attack by any State against an American...considered as an attack against all the American States"; consequently, each of them undertakes to assist the other in repelling the attack, in the exercise...

...foreshadowed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) (qv) by providing that an armed attack against any American state shall be considered as an attack against all the American states. In effect, like NATO, the military power of the United States provided a guarantee to defend the signatories...

...Cuba. Havana withdrew in 1960. By Article 3, signatories "agree that an armed attack by any States against an American State shall be considered as an attack against all the American States," and each signatory "undertakes to assist in meeting the attack."12 The United States is duty-bound to defend...

...through the OAS and through the Rio Treaty. That treaty gave expression to the fraternal principle "that an armed attack by any State against an American...considered as an attack against all the American States." That principle of interdependence became the basis for other collective-defense associations, such...