NATO summit
A NATO summit is a summit meeting that is regarded as a periodic opportunity for heads of state and heads of government of NATO member countries to evaluate and provide strategic direction for Alliance activities.[1]
NATO summits are not regular meetings like the more frequent NATO ministerial meetings, but rather are important junctures in the alliance's decision-making process on the highest level. Summits are often used to introduce new policy, invite new members into the alliance, launch major new initiatives, and build partnerships with non-NATO countries.
List of NATO summits
From the founding of NATO in 1949, there have been a total of thirty-one NATO summits; the last of which was the Brussels summit held in June 2021. Only the traditional summits have received an official number, thereby excluding the exceptional summits of 2001 in NATO headquarters and of March 2022 in Brussels.[2]
Year | Dates | Country | City | Host leader |
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1957 | 16–19 December | France | Paris | President René Coty |
1974 | 26 June | Belgium | Brussels | Prime Minister Leo Tindemans |
1975 | 29–30 May | Belgium | Brussels | Prime Minister Leo Tindemans |
1977 | 10–11 May | United Kingdom | London | Prime Minister James Callaghan |
1978 | 30–31 May | United States | Washington, D.C. | President Jimmy Carter |
1982 | 10 June | West Germany | Bonn | Chancellor Helmut Schmidt |
1985 | 21 November | Belgium | Brussels | Prime Minister Wilfried Martens |
1988 | 2–3 March | Belgium | Brussels | Prime Minister Wilfried Martens |
1989 | 29–30 May | Belgium | Brussels | Prime Minister Wilfried Martens |
1989 | 4 December | Belgium | Brussels | Prime Minister Wilfried Martens |
1990 | 5–6 July | United Kingdom | London | Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher |
1991 | 7–8 November | Italy | Rome | Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti |
1994 | 10–11 January | Belgium | Brussels | Prime Minister Jean-Luc Dehaene |
1997 | 27 May | France | Paris | President Jacques Chirac |
1997 | 8–9 July | Spain | Madrid | Prime Minister José María Aznar |
1999 | 23–25 April | United States | Washington, D.C. | President Bill Clinton |
2001 | 13 June | Belgium | Brussels | Secretary General George Robertson |
2002 | 28 May | Italy | Rome | Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi |
2002 | 21–22 November | Czech Republic | Prague | Prime Minister Vladimír Špidla |
2004 | 28–29 June | Turkey | Istanbul | Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan |
2005 | 22 February | Belgium | Brussels | Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt |
2006 | 28–29 November | Latvia | Riga | Prime Minister Aigars Kalvītis |
2008 | 2–4 April | Romania | Bucharest | President Traian Băsescu |
2009 | 2–3 April | France Germany |
Strasbourg Kehl |
President Nicolas Sarkozy Chancellor Angela Merkel |
2010 | 19–20 November | Portugal | Lisbon | Prime Minister José Sócrates |
2012 | 20–21 May | United States | Chicago | President Barack Obama |
2014 | 4–5 September | United Kingdom | Newport and Cardiff | Prime Minister David Cameron |
2016 | 8–9 July | Poland | Warsaw | President Andrzej Duda |
2017 | 25 May | Belgium | Brussels | Prime Minister Charles Michel |
2018 | 11–12 July | Belgium | Brussels | Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg |
2019 | 3–4 December | United Kingdom | Watford | Prime Minister Boris Johnson |
2021 | 14 June | Belgium | Brussels | Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg |
2022 | 25 February | Virtual summit | Virtual summit | Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg |
2022 | 24 March | Belgium | Brussels | Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg |
2022 | 28–30 June | Spain | Madrid | Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez |
2023 | TBA | Lithuania | Vilnius | President Gitanas Nausėda |
See also
References
- ^ "NATO Summit Meetings". NATO.int. NATO. Archived from the original on 4 October 2006. Retrieved 27 September 2013.
- ^ "NATO Summit Meetings". NATO.int. NATO. 4 October 2011. Retrieved 29 November 2011.