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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

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

The last NATO summit took place in Washington, D.C., 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^[3]	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^[3]	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	24–26 June	Netherlands	The Hague	Prime Minister Dick Schoof
2026	TBD	Turkey	TBD	President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
2027	TBD	Albania	TBD	Prime Minister

References

^ "NATO Summit Meetings". NATO.int. NATO. Archived from the original on 4 October 2006. Retrieved 27 September 2013.
^ "NATO Summit Meetings". NATO.int. NATO. 4 October 2011. Archived from the original on 3 April 2009. Retrieved 29 November 2011.
^ ^a ^b NATO. "NATO summits". NATO. Retrieved 15 August 2024.