2004 Istanbul summit

2004 Istanbul summit
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Host countryTurkey
Dates28–29 June 2004
Venue(s)Istanbul Lütfi Kırdar International Convention and Exhibition Center

The 2004 Istanbul summit was held in Istanbul, Turkey from 28 to 29 June 2004. It was the 17th NATO summit in which NATO's Heads of State and Governments met to make formal decisions about security topics. In general, the summit is seen as a continuation of the transformation process that began in the 2002 Prague summit, which hoped to create a shift from a Cold War alliance against Soviet aggression to a 21st-century coalition against new and out-of-area security threats.[1][2] The summit consisted of four meetings.

NATO members welcomed seven new alliance members during the North Atlantic Council meeting, decided to expand the alliance's presence in the War in Afghanistan and to end its presence in Bosnia, agreed to assist Iraq with training, launched a new partnership initiative and adopted measures to improve NATO's operational capabilities.[3]

The NATO-Russia Council meeting was mostly noted by the absence of both Russian president Vladimir Putin and of any progress concerning the ratification of the adapted CFE treaty or the withdrawal of Russian troops from Georgia and Moldova.[4] NATO leaders further welcomed progress made by Ukraine towards membership in the NATO-Ukraine Commission meeting[5] and discussed some general and mostly symbolic topics with its non-NATO counterparts during the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council meeting.[6]

Due to Turkish government fears of a terrorist attack, security measures during the summit were tight. Demonstrators from around the world gathered to protest against NATO or the American foreign policy under the George W. Bush Administration, while the summit itself was blown off the front pages of the world press by the unexpected transfer of Iraqi sovereignty, coinciding with the first day of the NATO summit on 28 June.[7]

  1. ^ "UNITED STATES MISSION TO NATO, NATO Summit, n.d." Archived from the original on 27 September 2007.
  2. ^ F. BONNART, "Istanbul summit : NATO could find its new purpose in Iraq" in The International Herald Tribune, 26 June 2004, [1] Archived 20 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference NATO2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ V. SOCOR, "Putin fails to win concessions from NATO: Russia at the NATO summit: cooperative rhetoric, zero-sum practice NATO" in Eurasia Daily Monitor, 1, (2004), 43, "Russia, NATO Summit - CDI RW 2 July 2004". Archived from the original on 9 May 2007. Retrieved 16 May 2007.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference NATO3 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference NATO4 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ N. BUTLER, "Deep Divisions over Iraq at NATO's Istanbul Summit" in Disarmament Diplomacy, (2004), 78, [2] Archived 20 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine

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