Slovakia Summit 2005

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Slovakia Summit 2005
Host country	Slovakia
Date	February 24, 2005 (2005-02-24)
Cities	Bratislava, Slovakia
Participants	George W. Bush Vladimir Putin
Website	www.slovakiasummit.com

The Slovakia Summit 2005 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 February 24, 2005, in Bratislava, Slovakia. This marked the first occasion when a sitting President of the United States visited Slovakia since its independence in 1993. The previous "Bush-Putin summit" had taken place in Slovenia on 16 June 2001.

Also attending was Condoleezza Rice (U.S. Secretary of State) and Sergey Lavrov (Russian Foreign Minister) as well as the first ladies of both countries, Laura Bush and Lyudmila Putina.