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 2018 Brussels summit held in July 2018. Only the traditional summits have received an official number, thereby excluding the exceptional summit of 2001 in NATO headquarters.[2]

YearDatesCountryCity
195716–19 December FranceParis
197426 June BelgiumBrussels
197529–30 May
197710–11 May United KingdomLondon
197830–31 May United StatesWashington, D.C.
198210 June West GermanyBonn
198521 November BelgiumBrussels
19882–3 March
198929–30 May
19894 December
19905–6 July United KingdomLondon
19917–8 November ItalyRome
199410–11 January BelgiumBrussels
199727 May FranceParis
19978–9 July SpainMadrid
199923–25 April United StatesWashington, D.C.
200113 June BelgiumBrussels
200228 May ItalyRome
200221–22 November Czech RepublicPrague
200428–29 June TurkeyIstanbul
200525 February BelgiumBrussels
200628–29 November LatviaRiga
20082–4 April RomaniaBucharest
20092–3 April France/  GermanyStrasbourg/Kehl
201019–20 November PortugalLisbon
201220–21 May United StatesChicago
20144–5 September United KingdomNewport/Cardiff
20168–9 July PolandWarsaw
201725 May BelgiumBrussels
201811–12 July

Source: NATO, Summits & Ministerial Meetings (outdated)

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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