| NATO Summit Wales 2014 2014 Newport Summit | |
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 Logo of the 2014 Wales Summit | |
| Host country | United Kingdom |
| Date | 4–5 September 2014 |
| Cities | Newport,Cardiff |
| Venues | Celtic Manor,Newport |
| Website | NATO Summit Wales 2014 |
The2014 Wales Summit of theNorth Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was the summit of theheads of state andheads of government of the NATO countries, held inNewport, Wales on 4 and 5 September 2014. Suchsummits are sporadically held and allow leaders and officials from NATO Allies to discuss current issues of mutual concern and to plan strategic activities. The 2014 summit has been described by US Navy AdmiralJames G. Stavridis as the most important since the fall of theBerlin Wall.[1]
The summit was hosted by British prime ministerDavid Cameron. Attendees included Canadian prime ministerStephen Harper, US presidentBarack Obama, German chancellorAngela Merkel, French presidentFrançois Hollande, Italian prime ministerMatteo Renzi and Spanish prime ministerMariano Rajoy.
There were another 180 VIPs, and 4,000 delegates and officials from approximately 60 countries.[2]
The official logo for the summit included a panel with four quadrants, each bearing a stylised symbol of Newport or Wales: aCeltic knot, theWelsh Dragon,Newport Transporter Bridge and aWelsh castle.[3] The entrance to the venue was fronted by a full-scale replica of aEurofighter Typhoon.[4][5]
World leaders met at theCeltic Manor, and informally at other locales in and aroundCardiff. They discussed ongoing events in the world, such as terrorism,cyberwarfare, and other areas of national security interest to the member states.
Ukrainian presidentPetro Poroshenko had a joint discussion withEU big four leaders and US president Barack Obama before the official start of the Summit, to discuss the crisis with Russia.[6][7][8]
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The following declarations and agreements were made at the Summit:
Immediately prior to the summit on 3 September 2014 French presidentFrançois Hollande announced the postponement of delivery of the firstMistral-class amphibious assault ship which had been sold to Russia, a ship provisionally namedVladivostok, due to theRusso-Ukrainian War.[26][27]
At the end of the summit Ukrainian president Poroshenko announced theMinsk Protocol, a ceasefire which had been agreed with the separatist leaderAlexander Zakharchenko under terms proposed by Russian presidentVladimir Putin. The protocol was cautiously welcomed by NATO leaders.[28]
On 12 September 2014 the EU announced a much wider expansion of its sanctions programme over the Russian involvement in the war in Ukraine.[29]
On 12 September a communiqué of the US Treasury announced a sweeping ban on the Russian defense sector.[30]
For the first time, the Allies formally pledged to aim to move towards what had previously been an informal guideline based onArticle 3 of spending 2% of their gross domestic products on defense, and 20% of that on new equipment.[31] For countries which spend less than 2% they agreed upon that these countries "aim to move towards the 2% guideline within a decade".[9] This pledge was the brainchild of USSecretary of DefenceChuck Hagel. In 2015, five of its 28 members met that goal.[32][33][34] In the aftermath of the pledge, defense spending increased among NATO members.[35] At the beginning of 2018, eight of the 29 members either were meeting the target or were close to it; six others had laid out plans to reach the target by 2024 as promised; and Norway and Denmark had unveiled plans to substantially boost defense spending (including Norway's planned purchase 52 newF-35 fighter jets).[36]
On 5 September 2014, the U.S., Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Turkey, and the United Kingdom, agreed to support anti-ISIL forces inIraq andSyria with supplies and air support.[37]
On the initiative of the UK, the multinationalJoint Expeditionary Force was officially launched with a Letter of Intent at and peripheral to the Summit.[38] It was subsumed under the new "Framework Nations Concept" rubric.[39][40] Germany, the UK and Italy were to act as framework nations for groups of Allies coming together to work multi-nationally for the joint development of forces and capabilities required by NATO.[41][10]
A retired German politician,Walther Stützle [de], formerdefense Parliamentary Secretary of State (until 2002) in theSPD'sFirst Schröder cabinet and former head of theStockholm International Peace Research Institute (until 1991), criticized the summit agenda for its focus on military details and not political perspectives. Stützle said that the Russian Federation was not a military threat to NATO but criticized that new NATO members' policies were notdétente and negotiation with the Russian Federation.[42]
In both Newport and Cardiff, road closures and security measures, starting weeks in advance of the summit, created widespread disruption.[43] Thirteen miles (21 km) of security fencing, 2.7 m (9 ft) high, was erected around the Newport hotel venue[43] and 10 miles (16 km) of fencing put up around Cardiff city centre. Businesses in the vicinity of security fencing in Cardiff reported a drop in trade by up to a third.[44] This fencing was based on and expanded, the 'National Barrier Asset' which is held in reserve for similar events.
Security included around 9,500 specially trained police officers patrolling the streets of the two cities, military helicopters including USOsprey V22s and theRoyal Navy's new £1bnType 45 destroyerHMS Duncan stationed inCardiff Bay.[45]
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Protests, demonstrations, and marches took place in Newport and Cardiff involving several hundred people, though the turnout was much lower than predicted.[46]
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Albania –Minister of Foreign AffairsDitmir Bushati
Belgium –Minister of Foreign AffairsDidier Reynders
Bulgaria –Minister of Foreign AffairsDaniel Mitov
France –Minister of Foreign AffairsLaurent Fabius
Germany – Foreign MinisterFrank-Walter Steinmeier
Italy – Foreign MinisterFederica Mogherini[47]
Norway –Minister of Foreign AffairsBørge Brende
Spain –Minister of Foreign Affairs and CooperationJosé Manuel García-Margallo
United Kingdom –Foreign SecretaryPhilip Hammond
United States – Secretary of StateJohn Kerry
{{cite news}}:Missing or empty|title= (help){{cite news}}:Missing or empty|title= (help)A month before [the alliance's summit in Riga in 2006], Victoria Nuland, then the U.S. ambassador to NATO, called the 2 percent metric the "unofficial floor" on defense spending in NATO. But never had all governments of NATO's 28 nations officially embraced it at the highest possible political level—a summit declaration.
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