Albanian Prime Minister Rama Says on November 12 That NATO Will Not Hold Its Summit in Tirana in 2027: He Says a 2028 Summit Would Be in Tirana, and a NATO Official Says the Next Summit Will Still Be Held in Albania With the Date Undecided
BRUSSELS — NATO will not hold a summit in Albania next year despite previous plans to do so, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said on Thursday, November 12, Reuters reported. Speaking in Dublin ahead of a gathering of European leaders, Rama said there is not yet a common position on when the summit will happen, and that it will for sure not be in 2027.
He added that in 2028, if there will be a summit, it will be in Tirana. A NATO official said on Thursday that the next NATO summit will be held in Albania, and that a decision on the date has yet to be made.
Reuters reported in June that plans for an alliance summit in Albania next year had been thrown into doubt due to resistance from the Trump administration and dissatisfaction among NATO members with Tirana's low defence spending. NATO has been considering ending its recent practice of holding annual summits, a move that could avoid a potentially tense encounter with United States President Donald Trump later in his term.
In a declaration adopted at the June 2025 NATO summit in The Hague, the alliance's leaders wrote that they looked forward to their next meeting in Turkiye in 2026, followed by a meeting in Albania.
Source: Reuters
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