A summit meeting (or just summit) is an international meeting of

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, usually with considerable media exposure, tight security, and a prearranged agenda. Notable summit meetings include those of Franklin D. Roosevelt,

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, and

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during

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ...

. However, the term summit was not commonly used for such meetings until the Geneva Summit (1955). During the

Cold War The Cold War is a term commonly used to refer to a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc. The term '' cold war'' is used because t ...

, when

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s joined with

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or Chinese counterparts for one-on-one meetings, the media labelled the event as a "summit". The post–Cold War era has produced an increase in the number of "summit" events. Nowadays, international summits are the most common expression for

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Notable summits

World War II conferences

* U.S.–British Staff Conference (ABC–1) (January 29 – March 27, 1941) * Atlantic Conference (August 9–12, 1941) * Moscow Conference (September 29 – October 1, 1941) *

Arcadia Conference The First Washington Conference, also known as the Arcadia Conference (ARCADIA was the code name used for the conference), was held in Washington, D.C., from December 22, 1941, to January 14, 1942. President Roosevelt of the United States and Prime ...

(December 22, 1941 – January 14, 1942) *Second Washington Conference (June 20–25, 1942) * Second Moscow Conference (August 12–19, 1942) *

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Conference (October 21–22, 1942) *

Casablanca Conference The Casablanca Conference (codenamed SYMBOL) or Anfa Conference was held at the Anfa Hotel in Casablanca, French Morocco, from January 14 to 24, 1943, to plan the Allied European strategy for the next phase of World War II. In attendance were ...

(January 14–24, 1943) * Bermuda Conference (April 19, 1943) *Third Washington Conference (May 12–27, 1943) * Quebec Conference (August 17–24, 1943) * Third Moscow Conference (October 18 – November 1, 1943) *

Cairo Conference The Cairo Conference (codenamed Sextant) also known as the First Cairo Conference, was one of the 14 summit meetings during World War II that occurred on November 22–26, 1943. The Conference was held in Cairo, Egypt, between the United King ...

(November 22–26, 1943) *

Tehran Conference The Tehran Conference ( codenamed Eureka) was a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill from 28 November to 1 December 1943, after the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran. It was held in the Soviet Union's embass ...

(November 28 – December 1, 1943) * Second Cairo Conference (December 4–6, 1943) *

Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conferences were biennial meetings of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom and the Dominion members of the British Commonwealth of Nations. Seventeen Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conferences were held betwee ...

(May 1–16, 1944) *

United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference The Bretton Woods Conference, formally known as the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, was the gathering of 730 delegates from all 44 Allied nations at the Mount Washington Hotel, situated in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, United ...

(Bretton Woods) (July 1–15, 1944) *

Dumbarton Oaks Conference The Dumbarton Oaks Conference, or, more formally, the Washington Conversations on International Peace and Security Organization, was an international conference at which proposals for the establishment of a "general international organization", w ...

(August 21–29, 1944) * Second Quebec Conference (September 12–16, 1944) * Fourth Moscow Conference (October 9, 1944) * Malta Conference (January 30 – February 2, 1945) *

Yalta Conference The Yalta Conference (codenamed Argonaut), also known as the Crimea Conference, held 4–11 February 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union to discuss the post ...

(February 4–11, 1945) *

United Nations Conference on International Organization The United Nations Conference on International Organization (UNCIO), commonly known as the San Francisco Conference, was a convention of delegates from 50 Allied nations that took place from 25 April 1945 to 26 June 1945 in San Francisco, Calif ...

(April 25 – June 26, 1945) *

Potsdam Conference The Potsdam Conference (german: Potsdamer Konferenz) was held at Potsdam in the Soviet occupation zone from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to allow the three leading Allies to plan the postwar peace, while avoiding the mistakes of the Paris P ...

(July 17 – August 2, 1945)

Arab League summits The Arabs (singular: Arab; singular ar, عَرَبِيٌّ, DIN 31635: , , plural ar, عَرَب, DIN 31635: , Arabic pronunciation: ), also known as the Arab people, are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in Western Asia, No ...

* 1974 – Rabat summit conference * 2002 –

Beirut Summit The Beirut Summit (also known as the Arab Summit Conference) was a meeting of the Arab League in Beirut, Lebanon in March 2002 to discuss the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. At the time Yassar Arafat, the leader of Palestine, was under house-arr ...

Earth Summit The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), also known as the Rio Conference or the Earth Summit (Portuguese: ECO92), was a major United Nations conference held in Rio de Janeiro from June 3 to June 14, 1992. Earth Su ...
s

* 1992 –

Earth Summit The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), also known as the Rio Conference or the Earth Summit (Portuguese: ECO92), was a major United Nations conference held in Rio de Janeiro from June 3 to June 14, 1992. Earth Su ...

, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil * 2002 –

, Johannesburg, South Africa, * 2012 –

, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

G–summits

;

Group of Six The Group of Seven (G7) is an intergovernmental political forum consisting of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States; additionally, the European Union (EU) is a "non-enumerated member". It is offici ...

(G6),

heads of government The head of government is the highest or the second-highest official in the executive branch of a sovereign state, a federated state, or a self-governing colony, autonomous region, or other government who often presides over a cabinet, a ...

* 1975 – 1st G6 summit, Château de Rambouillet ; Group of Seven (G7), heads of government * 1976 –

2nd G7 summit The 2nd G7 Summit, also called Rambouillet II, was held at Dorado, Puerto Rico, between June 27 and 28, 1976.Japan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( MOFA)Summit Meetings in the Past although this article is named "2nd G7 summit" because it is the ...

, San Juan * 1977 –

3rd G7 summit The 3rd G7 Summit was held in London, United Kingdom between 7–8 May 1977. The venue for the summit meetings was the British Prime Minister's official residence at No. 10 Downing Street in London.Japan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( MOFA) Summi ...

, London * 1978 –

4th G7 summit The 4th G7 Summit was held at Bonn, West Germany between 16 and 17 July 1978. The venue for the summit meeting was at the former official residence of the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bonn, the ''Palais Schaumburg.''Japan, Mi ...

, Bonn * 1979 –

5th G7 summit The 5th G7 Summit was held at Tokyo, Japan between June 28 and 29, 1979. The venue for the summit meetings was the State Guesthouse in Tokyo, Japan.Japan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( MOFA) Summit Meetings in the Past./ref> The Group of Seve ...

, Tokyo * 1980 –

6th G7 summit The 6th G7 Summit was held at Venice, Italy between 22 and 23 June 1980. The venue for the summit meetings was the island of San Giorgio Maggiore in the Venetian lagoon.Japan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( MOFA) Summit Meetings in the Past./ref> ...

, Venice * 1981 –

7th G7 summit The 7th G7 Summit was called the Ottawa Summit, and was held in Montebello, Quebec, Canada and nearby Ottawa between July 20 and 21, 1981. The venue for the summit meetings was the Château Montebello.Japan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( MOFA) S ...

, Montebello * 1982 –

8th G7 summit The 8th G7 Summit was held in Versailles, France from 4 to 6 June 1982. The venue for the summit meetings was at the Palace of Versailles.''Japan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( MOFA) Summit Meetings in the Past./ref> The Group of Seven (G7) is ...

, Versailles * 1983 – 9th G7 summit, Williamsburg * 1984 –

10th G7 summit The 10th G7 Summit was held in London, England, United Kingdom from 7 to 9 June 1984. The venue for the summit meetings was Lancaster House in London.Japan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( MOFA) Summit Meetings in the Past./ref> The Group of ...

, London * 1985 –

11th G7 summit The 11th G7 Summit was held in Bonn, West Germany between May 2 and May 4, 1985. The venue for the summit meeting was at the former official residence of the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bonn, the ''Palais Schaumburg.''Japan, ...

, Bonn * 1986 –

12th G7 summit The 12th G7 Summit was held in Tokyo, Japan between May 4 and May 6, 1986. The venue for the summit meetings was the State Guesthouse in Tokyo, Japan.Japan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( MOFA) Summit Meetings in the Past./ref> The Group of Se ...

, Tokyo * 1987 – 13th G7 summit, Venice * 1988 –

14th G7 summit The 14th G7 Summit was held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between June 19 and 21, 1988. The venue for the summit meetings was the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in Downtown Toronto.Japan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( MOFA) Summit Meetings in the ...

, Toronto * 1989 –

15th G7 summit The 15th G7 Summit was held in the business district of La Défense to the west of Paris, France between July 14 to 16, 1989. The venue for the summit meetings was the Grande ArcheJapan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( MOFA) Summit Meetings in the ...

, Grande Arche * 1990 –

16th G7 summit The 16th G7 Summit was held at Houston between July 9 and 11, 1990. The venue for the summit meetings was the campus of Rice University and other locations nearby in the Houston Museum District.Japan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( MOFA) Summit M ...

, Houston * 1991 – 17th G7 summit, London * 1992 – 18th G7 summit, Munich * 1993 – 19th G7 summit, Tokyo * 1994 – 20th G7 summit, Naples * 1995 –

21st G7 summit The 21st G7 summit was held on June 15–17, 1995 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The venue for this summit meeting was Summit Place in Halifax. It was labelled by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien as a "Chevrolet Summit", using a utilitarian auto ...

, Halifax * 1996 –

22nd G7 summit The 22nd G7 Summit was held in Lyon, France, on 27–29 June 1996. The venue for this summit meeting was the Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon (''Musée d'art Contemporain de Lyon'').Japan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( MOFA) Summit Meetings in t ...

, Lyon ;

Group of Eight (G8) The Group of Eight (G8) was an inter-governmental political forum from 1997 until 2014. It had formed from incorporating Russia into the Group of Seven, or G7, and returned to its previous name after Russia left in 2014. The forum originate ...

, heads of government * 1997 – 23rd G8 summit, Denver * 1998 – 24th G8 summit, Birmingham * 1999 –

25th G8 summit The 25th G8 Summit was held in Cologne, Germany, on June 18–20, 1999. The venue for this summit meeting was the Museum Ludwig in the central city.Japan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( MOFA) Summit Meetings in the Past./ref> Overview The Gro ...

, Cologne * 2000 – 26th G8 summit, Okinawa * 2001 –

27th G8 summit The 27th G8 summit was held in Genoa, Italy, on 20–22 July 2001 and is remembered as the peak of the worldwide anti-globalization movement as well as for human rights crimes against demonstrators. Overview The Group of Seven ( G7) was an unoff ...

, Genoa * 2002 – 28th G8 summit, Kananaskis * 2003 –

29th G8 summit The 29th G8 summit was held in Évian-les-Bains, France, on June 1–3, 2003. As is usual for G8 summits, there were a range of protests. Overview The Group of Seven ( G7) was an unofficial forum which brought together the heads of the richest ...

, Évian-les-Bains * 2004 – 30th G8 summit, Sea Island * 2005 –

31st G8 summit The 31st G8 summit was held on 6–8 July 2005 at the Gleneagles Hotel in Auchterarder, Scotland and hosted by Prime Minister Tony Blair. The locations of previous G8 summits to have been hosted by the UK include: London (1977, 1984, 1991); an ...

, Gleneagles * 2006 –

32nd G8 summit The 32nd G8 summit was held on 15–17 July 2006 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The venue was the Constantine Palace, which is located in Strelna on the Gulf of Finland. This was the first time Russia served as host nation for a G8 summit; and the ...

, Saint Petersburg * 2007 – 33rd G8 summit, Heiligendamm * 2008 – 34th G8 summit, Tōyako * 2009 – 35th G8 summit, L'Aquila, Abruzzo * 2010 –

36th G8 summit The 36th G8 summit was held in Muskoka, Ontario, Canada, on June 25–26, 2010. In this year's meeting, the G8 leaders agreed in reaffirming the group's essential and continuing role in international affairs and "assertions of new-found relevan ...

, Huntsville * 2011 –

37th G8 summit The 37th G8 summit was held on May 26–27, 2011, in Deauville, France. Previous G8 summits have been hosted by France in locations which include Rambouillet (1975); Versailles (1982); Grande Arche, Paris (1989); Lyon (1996); and Évian-les-B ...

, Deauville * 2012 – 38th G8 summit, Camp David, Maryland * 2013 – 39th G8 summit, Lough Erne in County Fermanagh ; Group of Seven (G7), heads of government * 2014 –

40th G7 summit The 40th G7 summit was held 4–5 June, 2014 in Brussels, Belgium. It was originally scheduled to be held as the “40th G8 summit” and be hosted by Russia in the Black Sea resort of Sochi. However, the other seven countries decided on 24 March ...

, Brussels * 2015 – 41st G7 summit, Schloss Elmau, Bavaria * 2016 – 42nd G7 summit, Shima, Mie Prefecture * 2017 –

43rd G7 summit The 43rd G7 summit was held on 26–27 May 2017 in Taormina ( ME), Sicily, Italy. In March 2014, the G7 declared that a meaningful discussion was currently not possible with Russia in the context of the G8. Since then, meetings have continued w ...

, Taormina, Sicily * 2018 – 44th G7 summit, La Malbaie, Quebec * 2019 –

45th G7 summit The 45th G7 summit was held on 24–26 August 2019, in Biarritz, France. In March 2014, the G7 declared that a meaningful discussion was currently not possible with Russia in the context of the G8. Since then, meetings have continued within the ...

, Biarritz, Nouvelle-Aquitaine ; Group of Twenty, heads of government * 2008 G-20 Washington summit * 2009 G-20 London summit * 2009 G-20 Pittsburgh summit * 2010 G-20 Toronto summit * 2010 G-20 Seoul summit *

2011 G-20 Cannes summit The 2011 G20 Cannes Summit was the sixth meeting of the G20 heads of government/heads of state in a series of on-going discussions about financial markets and the world economy. The G20 forum is the avenue for the G20 economies to discuss, plan ...

* 2012 G-20 Los Cabos Summit * 2013 G-20 Saint Petersburg summit * 2014 G-20 Brisbane summit * 2015 G-20 Antalya summit * 2016 G-20 Hangzhou summit * 2017 G-20 Hamburg summit * 2018 G-20 Buenos Aires summit * 2019 G-20 Osaka summit * 2020 G-20 Riyadh summit * 2021 G-20 Rome summit

European summits

* 1969 – The Hague: Foreign policy and enlargement. * 1974 – Paris: Creation of the Council. * 1985 – Milan: Initiate IGC leading to the

Single European Act The Single European Act (SEA) was the first major revision of the 1957 Treaty of Rome. The Act set the European Community an objective of establishing a single market by 31 December 1992, and a forerunner of the European Union's Common Fore ...

. * 1991 – Maastricht': Agreement on the

Maastricht Treaty The Treaty on European Union, commonly known as the Maastricht Treaty, is the foundation treaty of the European Union (EU). Concluded in 1992 between the then-twelve member states of the European Communities, it announced "a new stage in the ...

. * 1997 – Amsterdam: Agreement on the

Amsterdam Treaty The Treaty of Amsterdam, officially the Treaty of Amsterdam amending the Treaty on European Union, the Treaties establishing the European Communities and certain related acts, was signed on 2 October 1997, and entered into force on 1 May 1999; i ...

. * 1998 – Brussels: Selected member states to adopt the

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. * 1999 – Cologne: Declaration on military forces. * 1999 – Tampere: Institutional reform * 2000 – Lisbon: Lisbon Strategy * 2002 – Copenhagen: Agreement for May 2004 enlargement. * 2007 – Lisbon: Agreement on the

Lisbon Treaty The Treaty of Lisbon (initially known as the Reform Treaty) is an international agreement that amends the two treaties which form the constitutional basis of the European Union (EU). The Treaty of Lisbon, which was signed by the EU member sta ...

Inter-Korean summits

* 2000 – 1st Korean summit * 2007 – 2nd Korean summit * 2018 –

April 2018 inter-Korean summit The April 2018 Inter-Korean summit took place on 27 April 2018 on the South Korean side of the Joint Security Area, between Moon Jae-in, President of South Korea, and Kim Jong-un, Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea and Supreme Leader of ...

* 2018 –

May 2018 inter-Korean summit The May 2018 inter-Korean summit was the second inter-Korean summit in 2018. On 26 May, North Korean state chairman Kim Jong-un and South Korean president Moon Jae-in met again in the joint Security Area, this time on the North Korean side i ...

* 2018 – September 2018 inter-Korean summit

Millennium Development Goals The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were eight international development goals for the year 2015 that had been established following the Millennium Summit of the United Nations in 2000, following the adoption of the United Nations Millenn ...

* 2000 –

Millennium Summit The Millennium Summit was a meeting among many world leaders, lasting three days from 2000, held at the United Nations headquarters in New York City. Its purpose was to discuss the role of the United Nations at the turn of the 21st century. At ...

, New York City * 2005 – 2005 World Summit, New York City

South American Summits

* 2000 – 2000 South American Summit, Brasília * 2002 – South American Summit, Guayaquil * 2004 – 2004 South American Summit, Cuzco, Peru

Summits of the Americas

* 1994 –

1st Summit of the Americas The First Summit of the Americas was convened in Miami, Florida, United States, on December 9–11, 1994. Protests and demonstrations The summits which garnered most general public and media attention were the Quebec City and Mar del Plata even ...

Miami Miami ( ), officially the City of Miami, known as "the 305", "The Magic City", and "Gateway to the Americas", is a coastal metropolis and the county seat of Miami-Dade County in South Florida, United States. With a population of 442,241 at ...

in the

United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country Continental United States, primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 U.S. state, states, a Washington, D.C., ...

. * 1996—Summit of the Americas on Sustainable Development at

Santa Cruz de la Sierra Santa Cruz de la Sierra (; "Holy Cross of the Mountain Range"), commonly known as Santa Cruz, is the largest city in Bolivia and the capital of the Santa Cruz department. Situated on the Pirai River in the eastern Tropical Lowlands of Bolivia ...

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. * 1998 – 2nd Summit of the Americas at

Santiago Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whos ...

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the eas ...

. * 2001 –

3rd Summit of the Americas The 3rd Summit of the Americas was a summit held in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, on April 20–22, 2001. This international meeting was a round of negotiations regarding a proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas. The talks are perhaps bette ...

, in

Quebec City Quebec City ( or ; french: Ville de Québec), officially Québec (), is the capital city of the Canadian province of Quebec. As of July 2021, the city had a population of 549,459, and the metropolitan area had a population of 839,311. It is t ...

Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by to ...

. * 2004 –

Monterrey Special Summit of the Americas The Special Summit of the Americas was held on January 12 and 13, 2004 in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. This summit is part of the Summit of the Americas initiative which is carried on by the Organization of American States with the purpose of ...

Monterrey Monterrey ( , ) is the capital and largest city of the northeastern state of Nuevo León, Mexico, and the third largest city in Mexico behind Guadalajara and Mexico City. Located at the foothills of the Sierra Madre Oriental, the city is ancho ...

Mexico Mexico (Spanish language, Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a List of sovereign states, country in the southern portion of North America. It is borders of Mexico, bordered to the north by the United States; to the so ...

. * 2005 –

4th Summit of the Americas The 4th Summit of the Americas was held at Mar del Plata, about southeast of Buenos Aires in Argentina, on November 4–5, 2005. This summit (meeting), summit gathered together the leaders of all the countries of the Americas, American contine ...

Mar del Plata Mar del Plata is a city on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It is the seat of General Pueyrredón district. Mar del Plata is the second largest city in Buenos Aires Province. The name "Mar del Plata" is a sh ...

Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the List of South American countries by area, second-largest ...

. * 2009 –

5th Summit of the Americas The Fifth Summit of the Americas (VSOA) was held at Port of Spain in Trinidad and Tobago, on April 17–19, 2009. Organizers planned for the Fifth Summit to focus on a wide-ranging theme: "Securing Our Citizens' Future by Promoting Human Prosper ...

at Port-of-Spain in

Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago (, ), officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean. Consisting of the main islands Trinidad and Tobago, and numerous much smaller islands, it is situated south of ...

. * 2012 – 6th Summit of the Americas at Cartagena in

Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the ...

. * 2015 –

7th Summit of the Americas The seventh Summit of the Americas was held at Panama City, Panama, on April 10 – 11, 2015. Background The Summits of the Americas are a continuing series of summits bringing together the leaders of the Americas including North America (which ...

Panama City Panama City ( es, Ciudad de Panamá, links=no; ), also known as Panama (or Panamá in Spanish), is the capital and largest city of Panama. It has an urban population of 880,691, with over 1.5 million in its metropolitan area. The city is loca ...

Panama Panama ( , ; es, link=no, Panamá ), officially the Republic of Panama ( es, República de Panamá), is a transcontinental country spanning the southern part of North America and the northern part of South America. It is bordered by Co ...

. * 2018 –

8th Summit of the Americas The eighth Summit of the Americas was held in Lima, Peru, from April 13–14, 2018. The main focus of the summit was anti-corruption following the outbreak of the Odebrecht scandal, which affected numerous countries in the region, while attention w ...

Lima Lima ( ; ), originally founded as Ciudad de Los Reyes (City of The Kings) is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín Rivers, in the desert zone of the central coastal part of ...

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UN International conferences on Afghanistan

* 2001 – International Conference on Afghanistan in

Bonn The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ru ...

* 2004 – International Conference on Afghanistan in

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitu ...

* 2006 – International Conference on Afghanistan in

London London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ...

* 2007 – International Conference on the

Rule of Law The rule of law is the political philosophy that all citizens and institutions within a country, state, or community are accountable to the same laws, including lawmakers and leaders. The rule of law is defined in the ''Encyclopedia Britannic ...

Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is borde ...

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* 2008 – International Conference on Afghanistan in

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Si ...

* 2009 – International Conference on Afghanistan in

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

* 2009 – International Conference on Afghanistan in

The Hague The Hague ( ; nl, Den Haag or ) is a city and municipality of the Netherlands, situated on the west coast facing the North Sea. The Hague is the country's administrative centre and its seat of government, and while the official capital o ...

* 2010 – International Conference on Afghanistan in

Soviet Union–United States summits

* Geneva Summit, July 18–23, 1955 * Washington and Camp David Summit, September 15, 26–27, 1959 * Paris Summit, May 16–17, 1960 *

Vienna Summit The Vienna summit was a summit meeting held on June 4, 1961, in Vienna, Austria, between President John F. Kennedy of the United States and First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev of the Soviet Union. The leaders of the two superpowers of the ...

, June 3–4, 1961 *

Glassboro Summit Conference The Glassboro Summit Conference, usually just called the Glassboro Summit, was the 23–25 June 1967 meeting of the heads of government of the United States and the Soviet Union—President Lyndon B. Johnson and Premier Alexei Kosygin, respecti ...

, June 23 and 25, 1967 * Moscow Summit (SALT I), May 22–30, 1972 * Washington Summit, June 18–25, 1973 * Moscow summit, June 28 – July 3, 1974 * Vladivostok Summit Meeting on Arms Control, November 23–24, 1974 * Helsinki summit, July 30 and August 2, 1975 * Vienna summit (SALT II), June 15–18, 1979 * Geneva Summit, November 19–21, 1985 * Reykjavík Summit, October 10–12, 1986 * Washington Summit, December 7–10, 1987 * Moscow Summit, May 29 – June 1, 1988 * New York Summit, December 7, 1988 *

Malta Summit The Malta Summit was a meeting between US President George H. W. Bush and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev on December 2–3, 1989, just a few weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall. It followed a meeting that included Ronald Reag ...

, December 2–3, 1989 * Washington D.C., May 30 – June 3, 1990 * Helsinki Summit, September 9, 1990 * Paris Summit, November 19, 1990 * London Summit, July 17, 1991 * Moscow Summit (START I), July 30–31, 1991 * Madrid Summit, October 29–30, 1991

Russia–United States summits

* 2001 –

Slovenia Summit 2001 The Slovenia Summit 2001 was a summit meeting between United States President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin (hence also known as the Bush-Putin summit). It took place on June 16, 2001, on the Brdo pri Kranju estate in northe ...

* 2005 – Slovakia Summit 2005 * 2018 – Russia–United States summit * 2021 – Russia–United States summit

Miscellaneous

* 1520 – Field of the Cloth of Gold * 1955 – Geneva Summit * 1967 –

* 1985 –

Shamrock Summit The Shamrock Summit was the colloquial name given to the March 17–18, 1985 meeting between Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and US President Ronald Reagan in Quebec City. It gained this nickname because of the Irish background of the tw ...

* 1986 – Reykjavík Summit * 1989 –

* 1990 – World Summit for Children * 2001 – Agra summit * 2001 –

Taba summit The Taba Summit (also known as ''Taba Talks'', ''Taba Conference'' or short ''Taba'') were talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, held from 21 to 27 January 2001 at Taba, in the Sinai. The talks took place during a political tran ...

* 2000 –

2000 Camp David Summit The 2000 Camp David Summit was a summit meeting at Camp David between United States president Bill Clinton, Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat. The summit took place between 11 and 25 July 2000 ...

* 2003–2005 – World Summit on the Information Society * 2005 –

Sharm el-Sheikh Summit of 2005 The Sharm El Sheikh Summit of 2005 was a meeting of four Middle Eastern leaders at Sharm El Sheikh, in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, that took place on 8 February in an effort to end the four-year Second Intifada which began in September 2000. The ...

* 2015 –

Valletta Summit on Migration The Valletta Summit on Migration, also called the Valletta Conference on Migration, was a summit held in Valletta, Malta, on 11–12 November 2015, in which European and African leaders discussed the European migrant crisis. The summit resulted i ...

* 2017 –

2017 Riyadh summit The 2017 Riyadh summit ( ar, قمة الرياض 2017) was a series of three summits held on 20–21 May 2017 on the occasion of the visit of United States President Donald Trump to Saudi Arabia, his first trip overseas. The summit included one ...

* 2018 –

2018 North Korea–United States Singapore Summit The 2018 North Korea–United States Singapore Summit, commonly known as the Singapore Summit, was a summit meeting between North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un and U.S. President Donald Trump, held at the Capella Hotel, Sentosa, Singapore, ...

* 2019 –

2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit The 2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, commonly known as the Hanoi Summit, was a two-day summit meeting between North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong-un and U.S. president Donald Trump, held at the French Colonial Hôtel Métrop ...

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