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2023 Vilnius summit

April 12, 2024

The 2023 Vilnius summit was a meeting of the heads of state and heads of government of the thirty-one members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), their partner countries, and the European Union, held in Vilnius, Lithuania, on 11–12 July 2023. The summit was officially proposed during the previous 2022 Madrid summit and its dates were fixed on 9 November 2022.[1][2] It was notable for the discussions about the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine as well as Sweden and Ukraine's prospective memberships into the alliance.[3]

NATO Summit Vilnius 2023
2023 Vilnius Summit
Host countryLithuania
Date11–12 July 2023
Venue(s)LITEXPO
CitiesVilnius
Follows2022 Madrid summit
Precedes2024 Washington summit
Websitewww.nato.int

Background edit

The summit was held in the context of an ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. In his January 2023 address to the Lithuanian Parliament, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy described the summit as fateful.[4] Ukraine expressed the desire to be formally invited to NATO at the Vilnius summit.[5] On 8 July 2023, US President Joe Biden said that Ukraine is not ready to join NATO at that time.[6] By the time of the summit there were 24 member states that had formally declared their support for Ukraine's NATO membership.[7][8] Before the summit, on 4 July 2023, the former President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė criticized the Western leaders who failed to prevent the Russian aggression and said that the refusal to invite Ukraine to NATO would be a mistake.[9]

Following the accession of Finland to NATO earlier in 2023, there had been an expectation among many NATO member states that Turkey and Hungary will complete the ratification process and allow the accession of Sweden before the summit.[10] However, due to Turkish objections, it was unclear if Turkey would support Sweden's application by the time of the summit.[11]

Australia, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea attended the summit to strengthen their ties with NATO due to increasing tensions with China and Russia.[12][13]

Security edit

 
US Air Force One lands in Vilnius Airport. MIM-104 Patriot air defence systems visible in the background.
 
President of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda and the First Lady of Lithuania meet UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak

According to a representative of the Dignitary Protection Service of Lithuania, 40 heads of state and up to 150 other high-ranking officials will attend the summit and will require personal protection.[14] To ensure the safety and security, Lithuania committed around 1,500 police officers, including the anti-terrorist unit ARAS and the Criminal Police Bureau, as well as over 3,000 troops of the Lithuanian Armed Forces.[14] Additionally, police officers from Latvia and Poland aided in security and around 1,000 troops from NATO states additionally joined as well, including the Polish Special Forces to aid the Lithuanian Special Operations Force.[14][15] Overall, up to 12,000 officers and soldiers were.[14] In addition to security personnel, Spain is reported to have temporarily moved its NASAMS air defense system from its long-term position in Latvia to Vilnius, in addition to Lithuania's own NASAMS systems.[14] Similarly, German Armed Forces have deployed their MIM-104 Patriot long-range air defense system, placing it in Vilnius International Airport.[16][17] NATO sent additional warships to the Baltic Sea.[18] CBRN task force was also deployed.[14]

The Lithuanian State Border Guard Service announced that, from 7 to 13 July, internal Schengen Area border control would be reinstated at Lithuania's border checkpoints with member nations Latvia and Poland, as well as its airports and seaports.[19] For the duration of the event, as well as the days leading up to and after the event, many traffic restrictions were announced by the Vilnius City Municipality, including the closure of the entirety of the Vilnius Old Town and many parts of the city center for vehicles.[20] Additionally, from 11 to 12 July, all flights over Vilnius and the surrounding airspace were prohibited and scheduled flights from Vilnius Airport were suspended.[21] According to a representative of Lithuanian Airports, the other two civilian airports in Lithuania – Kaunas Airport and Palanga Airport – would continue to work but could experience delays.[22]

Summit edit

 
NATO–Ukraine Council
 
The signing of the F-16 training coalition memorandum

US President Joe Biden and a number of other leaders began arriving in Vilnius on Monday, the eve of the summit.[23] In the evening, the Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg hosted a meeting between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson. Following multiple hours of negotiations, Stoltenberg announced that Erdoğan agreed to unblock Swedish accession to NATO and ensure the ratification as soon as possible.[24] Soon after the announcement, Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, stated that Hungary would no longer block the entry of Sweden and would also support their membership into the defence bloc.[25]

On 11 July, the three Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) signed an agreement on joint airspace defense.[26]

On 11 July, a memorandum was signed between 11 nations and Ukraine to form the F-16 training coalition. As part of the signed memorandum, Ukrainian pilots, technicians, and support personnel will participate in the training program. The coalition consisted of Canada, Belgium, Denmark, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.[27] According to the US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Denmark and the Netherlands took leadership of the formed coalition and the two nations are to outline the training plan.[28]

Stoltenberg stated that Ukraine will not become a NATO member while the Russo-Ukrainian War remains ongoing and that the summit was not meant to be a formal invitation for it to join NATO, although countries remain divided on whether Ukraine should be able to join after the war ends.[29] Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that he wanted NATO to allow Ukraine to join as soon as possible after the war ends. However, other nations feared that such quick admittance of Ukraine to NATO could potentially increase Russian aggression and drag out the war even farther.[30] Stoltenberg has also stated that he expects the summit to create a program of long-term aid over several years for Ukraine: "We have already pledged 500 million euros [US$548m] for critical needs, including fuel, medical supplies, de-mining equipment and pontoon bridges. We will also help build Ukraine's security and defence sector, including with military hospitals. And we will help Ukraine transition from Soviet-era to NATO equipment and standards."[3]

Following the summit, Biden gave a speech at Vilnius University that touched on themes of unity between liberal democracies in the face of Russian aggression.[31]

Participants edit

 
Family photo of the 2023 Vilnius summit
 
Joe Biden met with Jens Stoltenberg at the summit
 
Participants of the summit attend the Lithuanian President's dinner
Key
Non-NATO member
Country or
organization 		Head of Delegation Title Ref.
  NATO Jens Stoltenberg Secretary General [32]
  Albania Edi Rama Prime Minister [33]
  Australia Anthony Albanese Prime Minister [34][35]
  Belgium Alexander De Croo Prime Minister
  Bosnia and Herzegovina Josip Brkić Deputy Foreign Minister
  Bulgaria Nikolai Denkov Prime Minister [36]
  Canada Justin Trudeau Prime Minister [37]
  Croatia Zoran Milanović President [38]
  Czech Republic Petr Pavel President
  Denmark Mette Frederiksen Prime Minister [39]
  Estonia Kaja Kallas Prime Minister [40]
  European Union Charles Michel Council President [41]
Ursula von der Leyen Commission President [42]
  Finland Sauli Niinistö President [43]
  France Emmanuel Macron President [34][44]
  Georgia Ilia Darchiashvili Foreign Minister [45]
  Germany Olaf Scholz Chancellor [46]
  Greece Kyriakos Mitsotakis Prime Minister [47]
  Hungary Viktor Orbán Prime Minister
  Iceland Katrín Jakobsdóttir Prime Minister
  Italy Giorgia Meloni Prime Minister
  Japan Fumio Kishida Prime Minister [34][48]
  Latvia Krišjānis Kariņš Prime Minister [49]
  Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda (host) President
  Luxembourg Xavier Bettel Prime Minister [50]
  Moldova Nicu Popescu Foreign Minister
  Montenegro Jakov Milatović President
  Netherlands Mark Rutte Prime Minister
  New Zealand Chris Hipkins Prime Minister [34][35]
  North Macedonia Dimitar Kovačevski Prime Minister
  Norway Jonas Gahr Støre Prime Minister [51]
  Poland Andrzej Duda President [52]
  Portugal António Costa Prime Minister [53]
  Romania Klaus Iohannis President [54]
  Slovakia Zuzana Čaputová President
  Slovenia Robert Golob Prime Minister [55]
  South Korea Yoon Suk Yeol President [34][56]
  Spain Pedro Sánchez Prime Minister
  Sweden Ulf Kristersson Prime Minister
  Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan President [47]
  Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy President [57]
  United Kingdom Rishi Sunak Prime Minister [58]
  United States Joe Biden President [59]

Reactions edit

In a 12 July CNN interview, Boris Johnson, prime minister of the United Kingdom at the onset of the war, criticized the ambiguity about Ukraine's future membership and supported President Biden's decision to send cluster munitions to Ukraine.[60]

British Secretary of Defence Ben Wallace made a remark that "we are not Amazon" and that Ukraine should show more thanks for international military aid.[61][62] British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, however, distanced himself from the comment and said that Ukrainians repeatedly expressed the gratitude.[63]

See also edit

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External links edit

  • Overview – 2023 NATO Summit Vilnius

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The 2023 Vilnius summit was a meeting of the heads of state and heads of government of the thirty one members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO their partner countries and the European Union held in Vilnius Lithuania on 11 12 July 2023 The summit was officially proposed during the previous 2022 Madrid summit and its dates were fixed on 9 November 2022 1 2 It was notable for the discussions about the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine as well as Sweden and Ukraine s prospective memberships into the alliance 3 NATO Summit Vilnius 20232023 Vilnius SummitHost countryLithuaniaDate11 12 July 2023Venue s LITEXPOCitiesVilniusFollows2022 Madrid summitPrecedes2024 Washington summitWebsitewww wbr nato wbr int Contents 1 Background 2 Security 3 Summit 4 Participants 5 Reactions 6 See also 7 References 8 External linksBackground editThe summit was held in the context of an ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine In his January 2023 address to the Lithuanian Parliament President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy described the summit as fateful 4 Ukraine expressed the desire to be formally invited to NATO at the Vilnius summit 5 On 8 July 2023 US President Joe Biden said that Ukraine is not ready to join NATO at that time 6 By the time of the summit there were 24 member states that had formally declared their support for Ukraine s NATO membership 7 8 Before the summit on 4 July 2023 the former President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaite criticized the Western leaders who failed to prevent the Russian aggression and said that the refusal to invite Ukraine to NATO would be a mistake 9 Following the accession of Finland to NATO earlier in 2023 there had been an expectation among many NATO member states that Turkey and Hungary will complete the ratification process and allow the accession of Sweden before the summit 10 However due to Turkish objections it was unclear if Turkey would support Sweden s application by the time of the summit 11 Australia Japan New Zealand and South Korea attended the summit to strengthen their ties with NATO due to increasing tensions with China and Russia 12 13 Security edit nbsp US Air Force One lands in Vilnius Airport MIM 104 Patriot air defence systems visible in the background nbsp President of Lithuania Gitanas Nauseda and the First Lady of Lithuania meet UK Prime Minister Rishi SunakAccording to a representative of the Dignitary Protection Service of Lithuania 40 heads of state and up to 150 other high ranking officials will attend the summit and will require personal protection 14 To ensure the safety and security Lithuania committed around 1 500 police officers including the anti terrorist unit ARAS and the Criminal Police Bureau as well as over 3 000 troops of the Lithuanian Armed Forces 14 Additionally police officers from Latvia and Poland aided in security and around 1 000 troops from NATO states additionally joined as well including the Polish Special Forces to aid the Lithuanian Special Operations Force 14 15 Overall up to 12 000 officers and soldiers were 14 In addition to security personnel Spain is reported to have temporarily moved its NASAMS air defense system from its long term position in Latvia to Vilnius in addition to Lithuania s own NASAMS systems 14 Similarly German Armed Forces have deployed their MIM 104 Patriot long range air defense system placing it in Vilnius International Airport 16 17 NATO sent additional warships to the Baltic Sea 18 CBRN task force was also deployed 14 The Lithuanian State Border Guard Service announced that from 7 to 13 July internal Schengen Area border control would be reinstated at Lithuania s border checkpoints with member nations Latvia and Poland as well as its airports and seaports 19 For the duration of the event as well as the days leading up to and after the event many traffic restrictions were announced by the Vilnius City Municipality including the closure of the entirety of the Vilnius Old Town and many parts of the city center for vehicles 20 Additionally from 11 to 12 July all flights over Vilnius and the surrounding airspace were prohibited and scheduled flights from Vilnius Airport were suspended 21 According to a representative of Lithuanian Airports the other two civilian airports in Lithuania Kaunas Airport and Palanga Airport would continue to work but could experience delays 22 Summit edit nbsp NATO Ukraine Council nbsp The signing of the F 16 training coalition memorandumUS President Joe Biden and a number of other leaders began arriving in Vilnius on Monday the eve of the summit 23 In the evening the Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg hosted a meeting between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson Following multiple hours of negotiations Stoltenberg announced that Erdogan agreed to unblock Swedish accession to NATO and ensure the ratification as soon as possible 24 Soon after the announcement Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban stated that Hungary would no longer block the entry of Sweden and would also support their membership into the defence bloc 25 On 11 July the three Baltic States Estonia Latvia and Lithuania signed an agreement on joint airspace defense 26 On 11 July a memorandum was signed between 11 nations and Ukraine to form the F 16 training coalition As part of the signed memorandum Ukrainian pilots technicians and support personnel will participate in the training program The coalition consisted of Canada Belgium Denmark Luxembourg the Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Sweden and the United Kingdom 27 According to the US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin Denmark and the Netherlands took leadership of the formed coalition and the two nations are to outline the training plan 28 Stoltenberg stated that Ukraine will not become a NATO member while the Russo Ukrainian War remains ongoing and that the summit was not meant to be a formal invitation for it to join NATO although countries remain divided on whether Ukraine should be able to join after the war ends 29 Ukraine s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that he wanted NATO to allow Ukraine to join as soon as possible after the war ends However other nations feared that such quick admittance of Ukraine to NATO could potentially increase Russian aggression and drag out the war even farther 30 Stoltenberg has also stated that he expects the summit to create a program of long term aid over several years for Ukraine We have already pledged 500 million euros US 548m for critical needs including fuel medical supplies de mining equipment and pontoon bridges We will also help build Ukraine s security and defence sector including with military hospitals And we will help Ukraine transition from Soviet era to NATO equipment and standards 3 Following the summit Biden gave a speech at Vilnius University that touched on themes of unity between liberal democracies in the face of Russian aggression 31 Participants edit nbsp Family photo of the 2023 Vilnius summit nbsp Joe Biden met with Jens Stoltenberg at the summit nbsp Participants of the summit attend the Lithuanian President s dinnerKey Non NATO memberCountry ororganization Head of Delegation Title Ref nbsp NATO Jens Stoltenberg Secretary General 32 nbsp Albania Edi Rama Prime Minister 33 nbsp Australia Anthony Albanese Prime Minister 34 35 nbsp Belgium Alexander De Croo Prime Minister nbsp Bosnia and Herzegovina Josip Brkic Deputy Foreign Minister nbsp Bulgaria Nikolai Denkov Prime Minister 36 nbsp Canada Justin Trudeau Prime Minister 37 nbsp Croatia Zoran Milanovic President 38 nbsp Czech Republic Petr Pavel President nbsp Denmark Mette Frederiksen Prime Minister 39 nbsp Estonia Kaja Kallas Prime Minister 40 nbsp European Union Charles Michel Council President 41 Ursula von der Leyen Commission President 42 nbsp Finland Sauli Niinisto President 43 nbsp France Emmanuel Macron President 34 44 nbsp Georgia Ilia Darchiashvili Foreign Minister 45 nbsp Germany Olaf Scholz Chancellor 46 nbsp Greece Kyriakos Mitsotakis Prime Minister 47 nbsp Hungary Viktor Orban Prime Minister nbsp Iceland Katrin Jakobsdottir Prime Minister nbsp Italy Giorgia Meloni Prime Minister nbsp Japan Fumio Kishida Prime Minister 34 48 nbsp Latvia Krisjanis Karins Prime Minister 49 nbsp Lithuania Gitanas Nauseda host President nbsp Luxembourg Xavier Bettel Prime Minister 50 nbsp Moldova Nicu Popescu Foreign Minister nbsp Montenegro Jakov Milatovic President nbsp Netherlands Mark Rutte Prime Minister nbsp New Zealand Chris Hipkins Prime Minister 34 35 nbsp North Macedonia Dimitar Kovacevski Prime Minister nbsp Norway Jonas Gahr Store Prime Minister 51 nbsp Poland Andrzej Duda President 52 nbsp Portugal Antonio Costa Prime Minister 53 nbsp Romania Klaus Iohannis President 54 nbsp Slovakia Zuzana Caputova President nbsp Slovenia Robert Golob Prime Minister 55 nbsp South Korea Yoon Suk Yeol President 34 56 nbsp Spain Pedro Sanchez Prime Minister nbsp Sweden Ulf Kristersson Prime Minister nbsp Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan President 47 nbsp Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy President 57 nbsp United Kingdom Rishi Sunak Prime Minister 58 nbsp United States Joe Biden President 59 Reactions editIn a 12 July CNN interview Boris Johnson prime minister of the United Kingdom at the onset of the war criticized the ambiguity about Ukraine s future membership and supported President Biden s decision to send cluster munitions to Ukraine 60 British Secretary of Defence Ben Wallace made a remark that we are not Amazon and that Ukraine should show more thanks for international military aid 61 62 British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak however distanced himself from the comment and said that Ukrainians repeatedly expressed the gratitude 63 See also edit49th G7 summit Government and intergovernmental reactions to the 2022 Russian invasion of UkraineReferences edit Madrid Summit Declaration NATO 29 June 2022 Archived from the original on 6 July 2022 Retrieved 15 February 2023 NATO Secretary General announces 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