2008 Bucharest summit

Bucharest summit
Bucharest summit logo
Host countryRomania
Dates2–4 April 2008
Venue(s)Palace of the Parliament, Bucharest

The 2008 Bucharest Summit or the 21st NATO Summit was a NATO summit organized in the Palace of the Parliament, Bucharest, Romania on 2 – 4 April 2008.[1][2]

Among other business, Croatia and Albania were invited to join the Alliance. The Republic of Macedonia (now North Macedonia) was not invited to join NATO due to its ongoing naming dispute with Greece. Georgia and Ukraine had hoped to join the NATO Membership Action Plan,[3] but, while welcoming the two countries’ aspirations for membership and agreeing that "these countries will become members of NATO", the NATO members decided to review their request in December 2008.[4][5]

  1. ^ Bucharest to host 2008 NATO Summit, NATO, 27 April 2007,
  2. ^ Romania to host NATO summit in spring 2008 Archived 29 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine, Romanian Information Center in Brussels, 2007
  3. ^ "George W. Bush: The Bucharest Summit will be one "marked by success"". summitbucharest.gov.ro.
  4. ^ Nato denies Georgia and Ukraine. The BBC News. 3 April 2008.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference buchdeclar was invoked but never defined (see the help page).