NATO summit

2022 Madrid 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.

Participating countries

The following lists current NATO member states:

List of NATO summits

From the founding of NATO in 1949, there have been a total of thirty-one NATO summits. Only the traditional summits have received an official number, thereby excluding the exceptional summits of 2001 in NATO headquarters and of March 2022 in Brussels.[2]

The last NATO summit was held in Vilnius, Lithuania from 11 to 12 July 2023.

The next NATO summit will be held in Washington DC, United States from 9 to 11 July 2024.

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
1989 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 Italy Rome Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti
1994 10–11 January  Belgium Brussels Prime Minister Jean-Luc Dehaene
1997 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 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 3–4 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 Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg
2022 25 February Virtual summit Virtual summit Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg
2022 24 March  Belgium Brussels Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg
2022 29–30 June  Spain Madrid Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez
2023 11–12 July  Lithuania Vilnius President Gitanas Nausėda
2024 9–11 July  United States Washington, D.C. President Joe Biden
2025 TBA  Netherlands TBA Subject to 2023–2024 Dutch cabinet formation

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. Archived from the original on 3 April 2009. Retrieved 29 November 2011.
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