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]
| Year | Dates | Country | City | Host leader |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | 16–19 December |  | Paris | President René Coty |
| 1974 | 26 June | .svg.png){kind=small} | Brussels | Prime Minister Leo Tindemans |
| 1975 | 29–30 May | | Brussels | Prime Minister Leo Tindemans |
| 1977 | 10–11 May |  | London | Prime Minister James Callaghan |
| 1978 | 30–31 May |  | Washington, D.C. | President Jimmy Carter |
| 1982 | 10 June |  | Bonn | Chancellor Helmut Schmidt |
| 1985 | 21 November | | Brussels | Prime Minister Wilfried Martens |
| 1988 | 2–3 March | | Brussels | Prime Minister Wilfried Martens |
| 1989 | 29–30 May | | Brussels | Prime Minister Wilfried Martens |
| 1989 | 4 December | | Brussels | Prime Minister Wilfried Martens |
| 1990 | 5–6 July | | London | Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher |
| 1991 | 7–8 November |  | Rome | Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti |
| 1994 | 10–11 January | | Brussels | Prime Minister Jean-Luc Dehaene |
| 1997 | 27 May | | Paris | President Jacques Chirac |
| 1997 | 8–9 July |  | Madrid | Prime Minister José María Aznar |
| 1999 | 23–25 April | | Washington, D.C. | President Bill Clinton |
| 20011 | 13 June | | Brussels | Secretary General George Robertson |
| 2002 | 28 May | | Rome | Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi |
| 2002 | 21–22 November |  | Prague | Prime Minister Vladimír Špidla |
| 2004 | 28–29 June |  | Istanbul | Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan |
| 2005 | 22 February | | Brussels | Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt |
| 2006 | 28–29 November |  | Riga | Prime Minister Aigars Kalvītis |
| 2008 | 2–4 April |  | Bucharest | President Traian Băsescu |
| 2009 | 2–3 April | | Strasbourg Kehl | President Nicolas Sarkozy Chancellor Angela Merkel |
| 2010 | 19–20 November |  | Lisbon | Prime Minister José Sócrates |
| 2012 | 20–21 May | | Chicago | President Barack Obama |
| 2014 | 4–5 September | | Newport and Cardiff | Prime Minister David Cameron |
| 2016 | 8–9 July |  | Warsaw | President Andrzej Duda |
| 2017 | 25 May | | Brussels | Prime Minister Charles Michel |
| 2018 | 11–12 July | | Brussels | Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg |
| 2019 | 3–4 December | | Watford | Prime Minister Boris Johnson |
| 1 Extraordinary summit hosted at NATO headquarters | ||||
Source: NATO, Summits & Ministerial Meetings (until 2009)
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.