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Main article: Foreign relations of Italy Massimo D'Alema, the Italian Foreign Minister and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Italy was a founding member of the European Community - now Union European Union (EU). Italy was admitted into the UN in 1955 and is a member as well as a strong supporter of the Organization of the North Atlantic Treaty (NATO), Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) , the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade / World Trade Organization (GATT / WTO), the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the Council of Europe. It has held the chairmanship of CSCE (predecessor of the OSCE) in 1994, the EU in 1996 and the G-8 in 2001 and held the EU presidency from July to December 2003. The United Nations and support activities international security activities of this organization. Italy has deployed troops in support of the peacekeeping operation of the United Nations in Somalia, Mozambique and East Timor and provides support for NATO and UN operations in Bosnia, Kosovo and Albania. Italy has 1,000 troops deployed to Afghanistan in support Alpini Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in February 2003. Italy still supports international efforts to reconstruct and stabilize Iraq, some 3,200 troops, also as officials and humanitarian officials. This army remained in Iraq under UN mandate and at the request of the Iraqi government in December 2006 to August 2006 Italy sent about 3,000 troops to join Lebanese peacekeeping force UNIFIL ONU [16]. In addition, from February 2, 2007 an Italian, Claudio Graziano, became commander of the United Nations force in the country. See also: Italian Foreign Minister
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