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.

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-five NATO summits; the last of which was the 2012 Chicago summit held in May 2012. Only the traditional summits have received an official number, thereby excluding the exceptional summit of 2001 in NATO headquarters

	Summit	Date	Host country	Summary / Highlights
1	1957 Paris summit	16–19 December 1957	France
2	1974 Brussels summit	26 June 1974	Belgium
3	1975 Brussels summit	29–30 May 1975	Belgium
4	1977 London summit	10–11 May 1977	United Kingdom	First simultaneous summit with G7
5	1978 Washington summit	30–31 May 1978	United States
6	1982 Bonn summit	10 June 1982	West Germany
7	1985 Brussels summit	21 November 1985	Belgium
8	1988 Brussels summit	2–3 March 1988	Belgium
9	1989 Brussels summit (May)	29–30 May 1989	Belgium	40th anniversary of NATO
10	1989 Brussels summit (December)	4 December 1989	Belgium
11	1990 London summit	5–6 July 1990	United Kingdom
12	1991 Rome summit	7–8 November 1991	Italy
13	1994 Brussels summit	10–11 January 1994	Belgium
14	1997 Paris summit	27 May 1997	France
15	1997 Madrid summit	8–9 July 1997	Spain
16	1999 Washington summit	23–25 April 1999	United States	50th anniversary of NATO
	2001 NATO Headquarters summit	23–25 April 2001	Belgium
17	2002 Rome summit	28 May 2002	Italy
18	2002 Prague summit	21–22 November 2002	Czech Republic	First summit in a former Warsaw Pact country
19	2004 Istanbul summit	28–29 June 2004	Turkey
20	2005 NATO Headquarters summit	22 February 2005	Belgium
21	2006 Riga summit	28–29 November 2006	Latvia	First summit in a former Soviet republic
22	2008 Bucharest summit	2–4 April 2008	Romania	Croatia and Albania invited to join the alliance
23	2009 Strasbourg-Kehl summit	3–4 April 2009	France, Germany	60th anniversary of NATO
24	2010 Lisbon summit	19–20 November 2010	Portugal	[1] [2]
25	2012 Chicago Summit	20–21 May 2012	United States	First summit in the United States outside of Washington D.C. Proposed second simultaneous summit with G8 until last minute location change of G8 [3] [4]
26	2014 Newport Summit	4–5 September 2014	United Kingdom	65th anniversary of NATO. First summit in the United Kingdom outside of London.

They Speak on Many World Issues

Source: NATO, Summits & Ministerial Meetings

See also

• EU summit
• G8 summit