2016 Warsaw summit

The 2016 Warsaw Summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was the 26th formal summit 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]

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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 NATO summit was held at the National Stadium in Warsaw

Agenda

Poland

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]

Outcomes

One of 16 NATO Boeing E-3 Sentry AWACS aircraft that will monitor ISIL activities from Turkish and international airspace

At an altitude of 30,000 feet a single E-3A has over 312,000 km² in its field of view and can continuously survey airspace within a radius of more than 400 km

• Strengthening the alliance's military presence in the east, with four battalions in Poland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania on a rotational basis – to be in place by 2017. This became known as NATO Enhanced Forward Presence.
• Allies declared Initial Operational Capability of NATO's Ballistic Missile Defence to counter threats posed by Iran and further afield, North Korea, to the European continent.^[6]
• Pledge to strengthen individual nations' and collective cyber defences, and recognise cyberspace as a new operational domain.
• Commitment to improve member state resilience.^[7]
• Start training and capacity building inside Iraq.
• NATO Boeing E-3 Sentry AWACS surveillance planes to provide information and intelligence to the Global Coalition to counter ISIL from Turkish and international airspace.^[8]
• Agreed to an expanded maritime presence in the Mediterranean Sea to cope with the European migrant crisis and human trafficking.
• Continue the Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan beyond 2016, confirmed funding commitments for Afghan forces until 2020.
• NATO-Ukraine Commission reviewed the security situation in Ukraine, endorsed government plans for reform, agreed a Comprehensive Assistance Package for Ukraine.
• NATO Secretary General signed a Joint Declaration with the Presidents of the European Council and the European Commission to take partnership between NATO and the European Union to a higher level. Declaration sets out areas where NATO and the EU will step up cooperation – including maritime security and countering hybrid threats posed by a more aggressive Russia.^{[9][10][11][12]}

Future summits

Normally NATO summits take place every two years, but after the Warsaw summit it was announced that the next alliance summit (27th) would take place in 2017 in Brussels to inaugurate the new €1 billion NATO headquarters building.^[13]

The next major summit (27th) took place in Brussels in 2017.^[14]

Leaders and other dignitaries in attendance

Countries in attendance

Country leaders, family photo

NATO Defence Ministers gather at the 2016 Warsaw summit in Poland

Key

Non-NATO member

Country or organization	Head of Delegation	Title	Ref.
NATO	Jens Stoltenberg	Secretary General
Afghanistan[a]	Ashraf Ghani	President	[15]
Albania	Edi Rama	Prime Minister
Armenia[a]	Serzh Sargsyan	President	[16]
Australia[a]	Mark Higgie	Ambassador	[17]
Austria[a]	Hans Peter Doskozil	Defence Minister	[18]
Azerbaijan[a]	Ilham Aliyev	President	[19]
Belgium	Charles Michel	Prime Minister
Bulgaria	Rosen Plevneliev	President
Bosnia and Herzegovina[a]	Bakir Izetbegović	Chairman of the Presidency	[20]
Canada	Justin Trudeau	Prime Minister
Croatia	Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović	President
Czech Republic	Miloš Zeman	President
Denmark	Lars Løkke Rasmussen	Prime Minister
Estonia	Taavi Rõivas	Prime Minister
European Union[a]	Donald Tusk	Council President	[21]
	Jean-Claude Juncker	Commission President	[21]
Finland[a]	Sauli Niinistö	President	[22]
France	François Hollande	President
Georgia[a]	Giorgi Margvelashvili	President
Germany	Angela Merkel	Chancellor
Greece	Alexis Tsipras	Prime Minister
Hungary	Viktor Orbán	Prime Minister
Iceland	Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson	Prime Minister
Ireland[a]	Paul Kehoe	Defence Minister	[23]
Italy	Matteo Renzi	Prime Minister
Jordan[a]	Nasser Judeh	Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister	[24][25]
Latvia	Raimonds Vējonis	President
Lithuania	Dalia Grybauskaitė	President
Luxembourg	Xavier Bettel	Prime Minister
Macedonia[a]	Zoran Jolevski	Defence Minister	[26]
Moldova[a]	Anatol Șalaru	Defence Minister
Montenegro[a]	Milo Đukanović	Prime Minister	[27]
Netherlands	Mark Rutte	Prime Minister
Norway	Erna Solberg	Prime Minister
Poland	Andrzej Duda (host)	President
Portugal	António Costa	Prime Minister
Romania	Klaus Iohannis	President
Slovakia	Andrej Kiska	President
Slovenia	Miro Cerar	Prime Minister
Spain	Mariano Rajoy	Prime Minister
Sweden[a]	Stefan Löfven	Prime Minister	[22]
Switzerland[a]	Guy Parmelin	Defence Minister	[28]
Turkey	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	President
Ukraine[a]	Petro Poroshenko	President	[29]
United Arab Emirates[a]	Mohammed Ahmad Al Bowardi	Defence Minister	[30]
United Kingdom	David Cameron	Prime Minister
United States	Barack Obama	President

See also

• Article 3 of the North Atlantic Treaty

Notes

1. Afghanistan, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Finland, Georgia, Ireland, Jordan, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine and United Arab Emirates were not member states of NATO but were invited to attend and participate in the summit. The presidents of the European Council and European Commission were also invited,

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Further reading

• New Polish President Makes NATO Bases in Central Europe a Priority for Warsaw Summit
• NATO: The Enduring Alliance 2016. Twenty Vital Defence Planning and Related Questions the NATO Warsaw Summit Should Address

External links

• 2016 Warsaw Summit – NATO