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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.

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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:

The following lists non-NATO states and organisations currently participating:

List of NATO summits

NATO summits2
Year Date 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 May3 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 May3 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
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
2018 11–12 July Belgium Brussels Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg
2021 14 June 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 24–25 June Netherlands The Hague Prime Minister Dick Schoof
2026 7–8 July Turkey Ankara President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
2027 TBD Albania Tirana Prime Minister Edi Rama

Extraordinary summits and meetings

Year Date Country City Type Context Host leader
2001 13 June Belgium Brussels Special meeting4 Formalisation of "Membership Action Plans" Secretary General George Robertson
2002 28 May Italy Rome NATO–Russia summit5 Upgrading of Russia–NATO relations to NATO–Russia Permanent Joint Council. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi
2015 28 July Belgium Brussels Special meeting6 Activation of Article 4 by Turkey following the Suruç bombing. Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg
2017 25 May Belgium Brussels Prime Minister Charles Michel
2019 3–4 December United Kingdom Watford Prime Minister Boris Johnson
2022 25 February Virtual summit Extraordinary summit7 Activation of Article 4 by 8 Eastern European states following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg
2022 24 March Belgium Brussels Extraordinary summit8 Russian invasion of Ukraine Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg
See also

See also

References

References

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  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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  5. "NATO-Russia Council (NRC)". NATO. Retrieved 31 May 2025.
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  7. "Extraordinary virtual summit of NATO Heads of State and Government - Brussels, 25 February 2022". NATO. Retrieved 31 May 2025.
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