| NATO Summit Warsaw 2016 2016 Warsaw Summit | |
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 Logo of the Warsaw Summit | |
| Host country | Poland |
| Date | 8–9 July 2016 |
| Venue(s) | National Stadium [1] [2] |
| Cities | Warsaw |
| Website | http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/events_132023.htm/ |
The 2016 Warsaw Summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was the 27th formal meeting of the heads of state and heads of government of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, held at the National Stadium in Warsaw, Poland, on 8 and 9 July 2016. [3] [4]
Polish president Andrzej Duda announced in August 2015 that NATO bases in Central Europe were a priority for the Warsaw Summit, and wanted for Poland to be included in the Normandy Format talks. Members of NATO on its eastern flank, who in November 2015 convened into a group called the Bucharest Nine, felt threatened by a revanchist Russia, and he said he will raise the issue with Angela Merkel, who had "previously blocked efforts to place NATO troops in central and eastern Europe, saying it might strain relations with Russia." [5]
Normally NATO summits take place every two years, but after the Warsaw summit it was announced that the next alliance summit (28th) would take place in 2017 in Brussels to inaugurate the new €1 billion NATO headquarters building. [13]
The next major summit (28th) took place in Brussels in 2017. [14]
Jens Stoltenberg held his first NATO summit as 
NATO – Secretary General.
Albania – Prime Minister Edi Rama 
Belgium – Prime Minister Charles Michel 
Bulgaria – President Rosen Plevneliev 
Canada – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau 
Croatia – President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović 
Czech Republic – President Miloš Zeman 
Denmark – Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen 
Estonia – Prime Minister Taavi Rõivas 
France – President François Hollande 
Germany – Chancellor Angela Merkel 
Greece – Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras 
Hungary – Prime Minister Viktor Orbán 
Iceland – Prime Minister Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson 
Italy – Prime Minister Matteo Renzi 
Latvia – President Raimonds Vējonis 
Lithuania – President Dalia Grybauskaitė 
Luxembourg – Prime Minister Xavier Bettel 
Netherlands – Prime Minister Mark Rutte 
Norway – Prime Minister Erna Solberg 
Poland – President Andrzej Duda 
Portugal – Prime Minister António Costa 
Romania – President Klaus Iohannis 
Slovakia – President Andrej Kiska 
Slovenia – Prime Minister Miro Cerar 
Spain – Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy 
Turkey – President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 
United Kingdom – Prime Minister David Cameron 
United States – President Barack Obama 
Afghanistan – President Ashraf Ghani [15] 
Armenia – President Serzh Sargsyan [16] 
Australia – Ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg, the European Union and NATO Mark Higgie [17] 
Austria – Minister for Defence and Sports Hans Peter Doskozil [18] 
Azerbaijan – President Ilham Aliyev [19] 
Bosnia and Herzegovina – Chairman of the Presidency Bakir Izetbegović [20] 
European Union – President of the European Council Donald Tusk [21] European Union – President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker [21] 
Finland – President Sauli Niinistö [22] 
Georgia – President Giorgi Margvelashvili [23] 
Ireland – Minister of State for Defence Paul Kehoe [24] 
Jordan – Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriate Affairs Nasser Judeh [25] [26] 
Macedonia – Minister of Defence Zoran Jolevski [27] 
Republic of Moldova – Minister of Defence Anatol Șalaru 
Montenegro – Prime Minister Milo Đukanović [28] 
Sweden – Prime Minister Stefan Löfven [22] 
Switzerland – Minister of Defence, Civil Protection and Sports Guy Parmelin [29] 
Ukraine – President Petro Poroshenko [30] 
United Arab Emirates – Minister of State for Defence Affairs Mohammed Ahmad Al Bowardi [31] 
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