NATO summit

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2019 London summit of the NATO, formal meeting of the heads of state and heads of government of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

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]

NATO Summits
Year Dates Country City Host leader
1957 16–19 December  France Paris President René Coty
1974 26 June  Belgium Brussels Prime Minister Leo Tindemans
1975 29–30 May  Belgium Brussels Prime Minister Leo Tindemans
1977 10–11 May  United Kingdom London Prime Minister James Callaghan
1978 30–31 May  United States Washington, D.C. President Jimmy Carter
1982 10 June  West Germany Bonn Chancellor Helmut Schmidt
1985 21 November  Belgium Brussels Prime Minister Wilfried Martens
1988 2–3 March  Belgium Brussels Prime Minister Wilfried Martens
29–30 May  Belgium Brussels Prime Minister Wilfried Martens
1989 4 December  Belgium Brussels Prime Minister Wilfried Martens
1990 5–6 July  United Kingdom London Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
1991 7–8 November Flag of Italy (1946–2003).svg Italy Rome Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti
1994 10–11 January  Belgium Brussels Prime Minister Jean-Luc Dehaene
27 May  France Paris President Jacques Chirac
1997 8–9 July  Spain Madrid Prime Minister José María Aznar
1999 23–25 April  United States Washington, D.C. President Bill Clinton
2001 13 June  Belgium Brussels Secretary General George Robertson
2002 28 May Flag of Italy (1946–2003).svg Italy Rome Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi
2002 21–22 November  Czech Republic Prague Prime Minister Vladimír Špidla
2004 28–29 June  Turkey Istanbul Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
2005 22 February  Belgium Brussels Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt
2006 28–29 November  Latvia Riga Prime Minister Aigars Kalvītis
2008 2–4 April  Romania Bucharest President Traian Băsescu
2009 2–3 April  France
 Germany		 Strasbourg
Kehl		 President Nicolas Sarkozy
Chancellor Angela Merkel
2010 19–20 November  Portugal Lisbon Prime Minister José Sócrates
2012 20–21 May  United States Chicago President Barack Obama
2014 4–5 September  United Kingdom Newport and Cardiff Prime Minister David Cameron
2016 8–9 July  Poland Warsaw President Andrzej Duda
2017 25 May  Belgium Brussels Prime Minister Charles Michel
2018 11–12 July  Belgium Brussels Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg
2019 3–4 December  United Kingdom Watford Prime Minister Boris Johnson
2021 14 June  Belgium Brussels Prime Minister Alexander De Croo
29–30 June  Spain Madrid Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez
TBA  Lithuania Vilnius President Gitanas Nausėda

See also[]

  • EU summit
  • G7 summit

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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