CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Indo-Pacific partners Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and the Republic of Korea participated in a NATO Summit for the first time. The European Union and Georgia also took part in the meeting, as did Finland and Sweden, who have today been invited to become NATO members.

Detailed explanation-2: -We agreed in Wales that cyber defence is part of NATO’s core task of collective defence. Now, in Warsaw, we reaffirm NATO’s defensive mandate, and recognise cyberspace as a domain of operations in which NATO must defend itself as effectively as it does in the air, on land, and at sea.

Detailed explanation-3: -They are meetings of the North Atlantic Council at its highest level possible – that of Heads of State and Government. Since 1949, there have been 32 NATO summits; the last one was in June 2022 in Madrid, Spain.

Detailed explanation-4: -The 1957 Paris summit was the first NATO summit bringing the leaders of member nations together at the same time. The formal sessions and informal meetings in Paris, France took place on 16–19 December 1957.