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NATO Leaders gathered in Madrid, Spain to discuss important issues facing the Alliance. The Madrid Summit has set NATO’s strategic direction for the future, ensuring that the Alliance will continue to adapt to a changing world and keep its one billion people safe.

Allied leaders agreed on a fundamental shift in NATO’s deterrence and defence, with strengthened forward defences, enhanced multinational battlegroups in the eastern part of the Alliance, and an increase in the number of high readiness forces to well over 300,000. Leaders also agreed to invest more in NATO and to increase common funding.

During the Summit, NATO’s closest partners Finland and Sweden were invited to join the Alliance, a significant boost to Euro-Atlantic security. Allies further agreed on long-term support for Ukraine through a strengthened Comprehensive Assistance Package.

Leaders also endorsed a new NATO Strategic Concept, the blueprint for the Alliance in a more dangerous and competitive world. It sets out NATO’s approach to Russia and to other threats, including terrorism, cyber and hybrid. For the first time, the Strategic Concept addresses the challenges posed by China.

Leaders agreed on steps to fight climate change, including targets to cut NATO greenhouse gas emissions and move towards Net Zero by 2050. And a new NATO Innovation Fund to help the Alliance sharpen its technological edge was also launched at the Summit.

And for the for the first time, Indo-Pacific partners Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and the Republic of Korea participated together in a NATO Summit, as Allies met with key partners to address global challenges.

Allies also recommitted to the fight against terrorism, and addressed NATO’s response to threats and challenges from the Middle East, North Africa and Sahel.

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At the Madrid Summit, NATO Leaders took important and transformative decisions that set the Alliance's strategic direction for the near and long-term future. See the key points below, and read the full Summit Declaration by Allied Heads of State and Government for more information.

2022 Strategic Concept > .

• NATO's guiding document, reflecting the new security reality that has emerged since the previous Strategic Concept was agreed in 2010
• identifies Russia as the most significant and direct threat to Allied security, addresses China for the first time and includes other challenges like terrorism, cyber and hybrid
• download the 2022 Strategic Concept

Strengthened deterrence and defence

• the biggest overhaul of Allied collective defence and deterrence since the Cold War
• upgraded defence plans, with more forces at high readiness and specific forces pre-assigned to defend specific Allies
• more troops and more pre-positioned equipment and weapon stockpiles in the east of the Alliance, enhancing NATO's eight multinational battlegroups

Investing more in defence

• reaffirmed commitment by Allies to spending at least 2 per cent of GDP on defence by 2024
• more common funding for NATO

Support to Ukraine and other partners at risk

• a strengthened Comprehensive Assistance Package for Ukraine, including support in areas like secure communications, anti-drone systems and fuel
• long-term help for Ukraine to transition from Soviet-era military equipment to modern NATO equipment
• new support packages for other partners at risk, including Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, and the Republic of Moldova

Adapting the Alliance to emerging challenges

• agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions by NATO as an organisation by at least 45 per cent by 2030, down to net zero by 2050
• launch of the NATO Innovation Fund, which will invest EUR 1 billion over the next 15 years in start-ups developing dual-use emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence
• pledge to continue enhancing national and collective resilience, so that Allied societies are prepared for any threat or challenge
• Australia, Japan, New Zealand and the Republic of Korea joined a NATO summit for the first time, to deepen cooperation and address global challenges

Finland and Sweden membership

• official invitation to Finland and Sweden to become NATO members
• reaffirmed commitment to NATO's Open Door policy for aspiring members

Challenges from the south

• recommitment to the fight against terrorism and NATO's 360-degree approach to deterrence and defence
• discussion of the food crisis caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and Russia's and China's increasing influence in the Alliance's southern neighbourhood
• new support packages for partner countries Mauritania and Tunisia

Reaffirming NATO's common values

• a reaffirmed, iron-clad commitment from Allies to collective defence and the importance of the transatlantic bond that unites NATO
• an equally strong commitment to the rules-based international order and Allies' shared values of individual liberty, human rights, democracy and the rule of law
• agreement to continue advancing gender equality, and to integrate human security and the Women, Peace and Security agenda across NATO's core tasks