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 NATO summits; the last of which was the UK summit in Watford held in December 2019. Only the traditional summits have received an official number, thereby excluding the exceptional summit of 2001 in NATO headquarters.[2]

NATO Summits
YearDatesCountryCityHost leader
195716–19 December FranceParisPresident René Coty
197426 June BelgiumBrusselsPrime Minister Leo Tindemans
197529–30 May BelgiumBrusselsPrime Minister Leo Tindemans
197710–11 May United KingdomLondonPrime Minister James Callaghan
197830–31 May United StatesWashington, D.C.President Jimmy Carter
198210 June West GermanyBonnChancellor Helmut Schmidt
198521 November BelgiumBrusselsPrime Minister Wilfried Martens
19882–3 March BelgiumBrusselsPrime Minister Wilfried Martens
198929–30 May BelgiumBrusselsPrime Minister Wilfried Martens
19894 December BelgiumBrusselsPrime Minister Wilfried Martens
19905–6 July United KingdomLondonPrime Minister Margaret Thatcher
19917–8 November ItalyRomePrime Minister Giulio Andreotti
199410–11 January BelgiumBrusselsPrime Minister Jean-Luc Dehaene
199727 May FranceParisPresident Jacques Chirac
19978–9 July SpainMadridPrime Minister José María Aznar
199923–25 April United StatesWashington, D.C.President Bill Clinton
2001113 June BelgiumBrusselsSecretary General George Robertson
200228 May ItalyRomePrime Minister Silvio Berlusconi
200221–22 November Czech RepublicPraguePrime Minister Vladimír Špidla
200428–29 June TurkeyIstanbulPrime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
200522 February BelgiumBrusselsPrime Minister Guy Verhofstadt
200628–29 November LatviaRigaPrime Minister Aigars Kalvītis
20082–4 April RomaniaBucharestPresident Traian Băsescu
20092–3 April France
 Germany		Strasbourg
Kehl		President Nicolas Sarkozy
Chancellor Angela Merkel
201019–20 November PortugalLisbonPrime Minister José Sócrates
201220–21 May United StatesChicagoPresident Barack Obama
20144–5 September United KingdomNewport and CardiffPrime Minister David Cameron
20168–9 July PolandWarsawPresident Andrzej Duda
201725 May BelgiumBrusselsPrime Minister Charles Michel
201811–12 July BelgiumBrusselsSecretary General Jens Stoltenberg
20193–4 December United KingdomWatfordPrime Minister Boris Johnson
1 Extraordinary summit hosted at NATO headquarters

Source: NATO, Summits & Ministerial Meetings (until 2009)

See also

References
  1. "NATO Summit Meetings". NATO.int. NATO. Archived from the original on 4 October 2006. Retrieved 27 September 2013.
  2. "NATO Summit Meetings". NATO.int. NATO. 4 October 2011. Retrieved 29 November 2011.
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