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-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

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

Source: NATO, Summits & Ministerial Meetings

See also

• EU summit
• G8 summit