List of NATO Summits
From the founding of NATO in 1949, there have been a total of twenty-five NATO summits; the last of which was the 2012 Chicago summit held in May 2012. 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 | |
| 25 | 2012 Chicago Summit | 20-21 May 2012 | Chicago, Illinois, United States | First summit in the United States outside of Washington D.C.
Proposed second simultaneous summit with G8 until last minute location change of G8 |
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