Silent Procedure

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The silence procedure enables NATO to take decisions without prior decision-making in the NATO Council . Instead, a deadline is set by which any NATO member can object to a proposal. In the case of silence, the objection of a single NATO member is enough to stop the process ( veto right).

The silence procedure was used, for example, in the Iraq conflict in February 2003 to initiate military aid for Turkey . In this case, Belgium and France vetoed.