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 twenty-four NATO summits; the last of which was the 2010 Lisbon summit held in November 2010. Only the traditional summits have received an official number, thereby excluding the exceptional summit of 2001 in NATO headquarters^[2]

	Summit	Date	Host country	Summary / Highlights
1	1957 Paris summit	December 16–19, 1957	Paris, France
2	1974 Brussels summit	June 26, 1974	Brussels, Belgium
3	1975 Brussels summit	May 29–30, 1975	Brussels, Belgium
4	1977 London summit	May 10–11, 1977	London, United Kingdom	First simultaneous summit with G7
5	1978 Washington summit	May 30–31, 1978	Washington, D.C., United States
6	1982 Bonn summit	June 10, 1982	Bonn, West Germany
7	1985 Brussels summit	November 21, 1985	Brussels, Belgium
8	1988 Brussels summit	March 2–3, 1988	Brussels, Belgium
9	1989 Brussels summit (May)	May 29–30, 1989	Brussels, Belgium	40th anniversary of NATO
10	1989 Brussels summit (December)	December 4, 1989	Brussels, Belgium
11	1990 London summit	July 5–6, 1990	London, United Kingdom
12	1991 Rome summit	November 7–8, 1991	Rome, Italy
13	1994 Brussels summit	January 10–11, 1994	Brussels, Belgium
14	1997 Paris summit	May 27, 1997	Paris, France
15	1997 Madrid summit	July 8–9, 1997	Madrid, Spain
16	1999 Washington summit	April 23–25, 1999	Washington, D.C., United States	50th anniversary of NATO
	2001 NATO Headquarters summit	April 23–25, 2001	Brussels, Belgium
17	2002 Rome summit	May 28, 2002	Rome, Italy
18	2002 Prague summit	November 21–22, 2002	Prague, Czech Republic	First summit in a former Warsaw Pact country
19	2004 Istanbul summit	June 28–29, 2004	Istanbul, Turkey
20	2005 NATO Headquarters summit	February 22, 2005	Brussels, Belgium
21	2006 Riga summit	November 28–29, 2006	Riga, Latvia	First summit in a former Soviet republic
22	2008 Bucharest summit	April 2–4, 2008	Bucharest, Romania	Croatia and Albania invited to join the alliance
23	2009 Strasbourg-Kehl summit	April 3–4, 2009	Strasbourg, France Kehl, Germany	60th anniversary of NATO
24	2010 Lisbon summit	November 19–20, 2010	Lisbon, Portugal	[3] [4]
25	2012 Chicago Summit	May 15-22, 2012	Chicago, Illinois, United States	Second simultaneous summit with G8.[3] [4]

Source: NATO, Summits & Ministerial Meetings

See also

• EU summit
• G8 summit

References

1. ^ NATO, NATO Summit Meetings, December 4, 2006
2. ^ NATO Summit Meetings
3. ^ [1]
4. ^ [2]