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-six NATO summits; the last of which was the 2014 Newport summit held in September 2014. Only the traditional summits have received an official number, thereby excluding the exceptional summit of 2001 in NATO headquarters. The next NATO summit will take place in Warsaw, Poland in July 2016.

Year	Dates	Country	City
1957	16–19 December	France	Paris
1974	26 June	Belgium	Brussels
1975	29–30 May
1977	10–11 May	United Kingdom	London
1978	30–31 May	United States	Washington, D.C.
1978	10 June	West Germany	Bonn
1985	21 November	Belgium	Brussels
1988	2–3 May
1989	29–30 May
	4 December
1990	5–6 July	United Kingdom	London
1991	7–8 November	Italy	Rome
1994	10–11 January	Belgium	Brussels
1997	27 May	France	Paris
	8–9 July	Spain	Madrid
1999	23–25 April	United States	Washington, D.C.
2001	13 June	Belgium	Brussels
2002	28 May	Italy	Rome
2002	21–22 November	Czech Republic	Prague
2004	28–29 June	Turkey	Istanbul
2005	25 February	Belgium	Brussels
2006	28–29 November	Latvia	Riga
2008	2–4 April	Romania	București
2009	2–3 April	France/Germany	Strasbourg-Kehl
2010	19–20 November	Portugal	Lisbon
2012	20–21 May	United States	Chicago
2014	4–5 September	United Kingdom	Newport/Cardiff, Wales
2016	8–9 July	Poland	Warsaw

Source: NATO, Summits & Ministerial Meetings

See also

• EU summit
• G8 summit