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A summit or summit meeting is an international meeting of heads of state or government, usually with considerable media exposure, tight security, and a prearranged agenda.

Notable summit meetings include those of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin during World War II, although the term summit was not commonly used for such meetings until the 1955 Geneva Summit.^[1] Following World War II, the Cold War saw American presidents join up with either Soviet or Chinese counterparts for one-on-one meetings, which saw the media label these events off as a summit. The post–Cold War era has produced an increase in the number of events described as summits. International summits are now the most common expression for global governance.^[2] Summit diplomacy fosters interpersonal trust between leaders and reinforces system trust in the state-as-person construct, which is identified as the implicit glue holding the international system together.^[3]

Notable summits

Allied 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 (December 22, 1941 – January 14, 1942)
Second Washington Conference (June 20–25, 1942)
Second Moscow Conference (August 12–19, 1942)
Cherchell Conference (October 21–22, 1942)
Casablanca Conference (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 (November 22–26, 1943)
Tehran Conference (November 28 – December 1, 1943)
Second Cairo Conference (December 4–6, 1943)
Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference (May 1–16, 1944)
United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference (Bretton Woods) (July 1–15, 1944)
Dumbarton Oaks Conference (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 (February 4–11, 1945)
United Nations Conference on International Organization (April 25 – June 26, 1945)
Potsdam Conference (July 17 – August 2, 1945)

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 (June 3–4, 1961)
Glassboro Summit Conference (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)
Governors Island Summit (December 7, 1988)
Malta Summit (December 2–3, 1989)
Washington Summit (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

1993 – Moscow Summit (START II)
1998 – Moscow Summit
2001 – Slovenia Summit 2001
2002 – Moscow Summit (SORT)
2005 – Slovakia Summit 2005
2018 – Russia–United States summit
2021 – Russia–United States summit
2025 – Russia–United States summit

African Union summits

2014 – United States–Africa Leaders Summit 2014
2019 – 2019 Russia–Africa Summit
2022 – United States–Africa Leaders Summit 2022
2023 – 2023 Russia–Africa Summit
2024 – 2024 South Korea–Africa Summit

Arab League summits

1974 – Rabat summit conference

2002 – Beirut Summit

Earth Summits

1992 – Earth Summit, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2002 – Earth Summit, Johannesburg, South Africa,
2012 – Earth Summit, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

G–summits

Group of Six (G6), heads of government

1975 – 1st G6 summit, Château de Rambouillet

Group of Seven (G7), heads of government

1976 – 2nd G7 summit, San Juan
1977 – 3rd G7 summit, London
1978 – 4th G7 summit, Bonn
1979 – 5th G7 summit, Tokyo
1980 – 6th G7 summit, Venice
1981 – 7th G7 summit, Montebello
1982 – 8th G7 summit, Versailles
1983 – 9th G7 summit, Williamsburg
1984 – 10th G7 summit, London
1985 – 11th G7 summit, Bonn
1986 – 12th G7 summit, Tokyo
1987 – 13th G7 summit, Venice
1988 – 14th G7 summit, Toronto
1989 – 15th G7 summit, Grande Arche
1990 – 16th G7 summit, 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, Halifax
1996 – 22nd G7 summit, Lyon

Group of Eight (G8), heads of government

1997 – 23rd G8 summit, Denver
1998 – 24th G8 summit, Birmingham
1999 – 25th G8 summit, Cologne
2000 – 26th G8 summit, Okinawa
2001 – 27th G8 summit, Genoa
2002 – 28th G8 summit, Kananaskis, Alberta
2003 – 29th G8 summit, Évian-les-Bains
2004 – 30th G8 summit, Sea Island, Georgia
2005 – 31st G8 summit, Gleneagles
2006 – 32nd G8 summit, Saint Petersburg
2007 – 33rd G8 summit, Heiligendamm
2008 – 34th G8 summit, Tōyako
2009 – 35th G8 summit, L'Aquila, Abruzzo
2010 – 36th G8 summit, Huntsville, Ontario
2011 – 37th G8 summit, 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, Brussels
2015 – 41st G7 summit, Schloss Elmau, Bavaria
2016 – 42nd G7 summit, Shima, Mie Prefecture
2017 – 43rd G7 summit, Taormina, Sicily
2018 – 44th G7 summit, La Malbaie, Quebec
2019 – 45th G7 summit, Biarritz, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
2021 – 47th G7 summit, Cornwall, South West England
2022 – 48th G7 summit, Schloss Elmau, Bavaria
2023 – 49th G7 summit, Hiroshima
2024 – 50th G7 summit, Fasano, Apulia
2025 – 51st G7 summit, Kananaskis, Alberta
2026 – 52nd G7 summit, Évian-les-Bains

Group of Twenty (G20), heads of government

European summits

1969 – The Hague: Foreign policy and enlargement.
1974 – Paris: Creation of the Council.
1985 – Milan: The initiating of the IGC which leads to the Single European Act.
1991 – Maastricht: Agreement on the Maastricht Treaty.
1997 – Amsterdam: Agreement on the Amsterdam Treaty.
1998 – Brussels: Selected member states to adopt the euro.

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.

European Political Community summits

2022 – 1st EPC Summit, Czechia
2023 – 2nd EPC Summit, Moldova
2023 – 3rd EPC Summit, Spain
2024 – 4th EPC Summit, United Kingdom

2024 – 5th EPC Summit, Hungary
2025 – 6th EPC Summit, Albania
2025 – 7th EPC Summit, Denmark
2026 – 8th EPC Summit, Armenia

European Union–African Union Summits

2000 – 1st European Union–African Union Summit
2007 – 2nd European Union–African Union Summit
2010 – 3rd European Union–African Union Summit
2014 – 4th European Union–African Union Summit
2017 – 5th European Union–African Union Summit
2022 – 6th European Union–African Union Summit
2025 – 7th European Union–African Union Summit

Inter-Korean summits

2018 – May 2018 inter-Korean summit
2018 – September 2018 inter-Korean summit
2019 – 2019 Koreas–United States DMZ Summit

Millennium Development Goals

2000 – Millennium Summit, 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 at Miami in the United States.
1996—Summit of the Americas on Sustainable Development at Santa Cruz de la Sierra in Bolivia.
1998 – 2nd Summit of the Americas at Santiago in Chile.
2001 – 3rd Summit of the Americas, in Quebec City, Canada.
2004 – Monterrey Special Summit of the Americas at Monterrey in Mexico.

2005 – 4th Summit of the Americas at Mar del Plata in Argentina.
2009 – 5th Summit of the Americas at Port-of-Spain in Trinidad and Tobago.
2012 – 6th Summit of the Americas at Cartagena in Colombia.
2015 – 7th Summit of the Americas at Panama City in Panama.
2018 – 8th Summit of the Americas at Lima in Peru.
2022 – 9th Summit of the Americas at Los Angeles in the United States.

UN international conferences on Afghanistan

2001 – International Conference on Afghanistan in Bonn
2004 – International Conference on Afghanistan in Berlin
2006 – International Conference on Afghanistan in London
2007 – International Conference on the Rule of Law in Afghanistan in Rome

2008 – International Conference on Afghanistan in Paris
2009 – International Conference on Afghanistan in Moscow
2009 – International Conference on Afghanistan in The Hague
2010 – International Conference on Afghanistan in London

Miscellaneous

1335 – Congress of Visegrád
1520 – Field of the Cloth of Gold
1808 – Congress of Erfurt
1814 - 1815 – Congress of Vienna
1919 - 1920 – Paris Peace Conference
1938 – Munich Agreement
1955 – Geneva Summit
1966 – Manila Summit Conference
1967 – Glassboro Summit Conference
1978 – Camp David Accords
1985 – Shamrock Summit
1986 – Reykjavík Summit
1989 – Malta Summit
1990 – World Summit for Children
2000 – 2000 Camp David Summit
2001 – Agra Summit
2001 – Taba Summit
2003, 2005 – World Summit on the Information Society
2005 – Sharm el-Sheikh Summit of 2005
2015 – Valletta Summit on Migration
2017 – 2017 Riyadh summit
2018 – 2018 North Korea–United States Singapore Summit
2019 – 2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit
2022 – 2022 China-Arab States Summit
2023 – 2023 France-China Summit
2025 – 2025 European Union–Central Asia summit
2025 – August 2025 White House multilateral meeting on Ukraine

See also

References

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