2002 Prague NATO summit

December 2019 2002 NATO summit meeting in Prague, Czech Republic April 2019 October 2016 Prague Summit NATO-2002-Summit.jpg 2002 NATO Summit Czech Republic Prague Congress Centre 21–22 November 2002 www.nato.int 2002 Rome summit 2004 Istanbul summit The 2002 Prague summit was the NATO summit held at the Prague Congress Centre where the heads of state and government of the NATO member states met. Seven states at the summit were invited there to begin accession talks with NATO: Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. NATO's post-Cold War Open Door Policy was also reaffirmed at the meeting. A NATO Response Force was considered and planned, a force that was officially declared ready at the 2006 Riga summit. At a press conference, then-president of the United States George W. Bush declared that the US would "disarm" Saddam Hussein together with a "coalition of the willing".https://www.nato.int/docu/speech/2002/s021120b.htm Press Conference by US President George W. Bush and Vaclav Havel, President of the Czech Republic NATO 19 May 2015https://www.think.cz/english/politics/media-endures-separation Media Endures Separation 27 December 2002 The Prague Post Archive On Think Magazine 22 March 2023 See also Individual Partnership Action Plan References Summit of 2002 2002 Prague summit Category:2002 in politics Category:Diplomatic conferences in the Czech Republic Category:2002 diplomatic conferences Category:2002 in international relations Category:2002 in the Czech Republic Category:2000s in Prague Category:Czech Republic and NATO Category:November 2002 in Europe