1978 Washington summit

1978 NATO summit meeting in Washington, D.C., United States

Washington summit
Host country	United States
Dates	May 30–31, 1978

The 1978 Washington summit was the 5th NATO summit bringing the leaders of member nations together at the same time. The formal sessions and informal meetings in Washington, D.C. took place on May 30–31, 1978.^[1] This event was only the fifth meeting of the NATO heads of state following the ceremonial signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on April 4, 1949.^[2]

Background

In this period, the organization faced unresolved questions concerned whether a new generation of leaders would be as committed to NATO as their predecessors had been.^[2]

Synopsis

Meeting with participation of Heads of State and Government^[3]
Long-term trends in east–west relations
Berlin and Germany
Review of CSCE implementation at Belgrade
Achievement of NATO Science Committee, 20th Anniversary
Need to strengthen South Eastern flanks
Concern at continual Warsaw Pact expansion of offensive capabilities
SALT
MBFR
Leaders of States participating in NATO integrated defence approve LTDP and call for follow-through action by national authorities.

Notes

^ NATO. "NATO summit meetings". Archived from the original on May 9, 2009. Retrieved March 21, 2009.
^ ^a ^b Thomas, Ian Q.R. (1997). The promise of alliance: NATO and the political imagination, p. 101.
^ "Final Communiqué". NATO On-Line Library. October 24, 2000. Archived from the original on August 24, 2000.

References

Thomas, Ian Q. R. (1997). The promise of alliance: NATO and the political imagination. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-8476-8581-3. OCLC 36746439.