Emory International Law Review Volume 34 Issue 0 The North Atlantic Treaty Organization's Seventieth Anniversary 2019 Scope and Historical Developments of Article 6 Antoaneta Boeva Ivan Novotny Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarlycommons.law.emory.edu/eilr Recommended Citation Antoaneta Boeva & Ivan Novotny, Scope and Historical Developments of Article 6, 34 Emory Int'l L. Rev. 121 (2019). Available at: https://scholarlycommons.law.emory.edu/eilr/vol34/iss0/8 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at Emory Law Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Emory International Law Review by an authorized editor of Emory Law Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. NOVOTNYBOEVAPROOFS2_10.24.19 11/19/2019 10:02 AM SCOPE AND HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS OF ARTICLE 6† Antoaneta Boeva* Ivan Novotny** Article 61 For the purpose of Article 5, an armed attack on one or more of the Parties is deemed to include an armed attack: 1. on the territory of any of the Parties in Europe or North America, on the Algerian Departments of France,2 on the territory of Turkey or on the Islands under the jurisdiction of any of the Parties in the North Atlantic area north of the Tropic of Cancer; 2. on the forces, vessels, or aircraft of any of the Parties, when in or over these territories or any other area in Europe in which occupation forces of any of the Parties were stationed on the date when the Treaty entered into force or the Mediterranean Sea or the North Atlantic area north of the Tropic of Cancer.3 INTRODUCTION As stressed many times in this special series of articles and commentaries, the North Atlantic Treaty (“Treaty”), which celebrates its 70th anniversary this year, is in many ways unique.