1982 Bonn summit

Bonn summit
Map of NATO members
Host country West Germany
Dates June 10, 1982

The 1982 Bonn summit was the 6th NATO summit bringing the leaders of member nations together at the same time. The formal sessions and informal meetings in Bonn took place on June 10, 1982.[1] This event was only the fifth meeting of the NATO heads of state following the ceremonial signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on April 4, 1949.[2] When the summit was held, there were sixteen members of NATO.

Background

In this period, the organization faced unresolved questions concerned whether a new generation of leaders would be as committed to NATO as their predecessors had been.[2] The Bonn Summit addressed many issues and discussed many topics. Most notable of these topics was the accession of Spain to NATO, as the summit was held years after the fall of Francisco Franco.[3] The summit also voiced concern to the perceived threat the Soviet Union posed to members of NATO.

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ NATO. "NATO summit meetings". Archived from the original on 2009-05-04. Retrieved 2009-03-18.
  2. 1 2 Thomas, Ian Q.R. (1997). The promise of alliance: NATO and the political imagination, p. 101.
  3. ↑

References

  • Thomas, Ian Q.R. (1997). The promise of alliance: NATO and the political imagination. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-8476-8581-3; OCLC 36746439 (Archived 2009-05-06)
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