{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2019}} {{short description|2002 NATO summit meeting in Prague, Czech Republic}} {{Use American English|date = April 2019}} {{More citations needed|date=October 2016}} {{Infobox summit | summit_name = Prague Summit | image = NATO-2002-Summit.jpg | caption =2002 NATO Summit | country = Czech Republic | venues = Prague Congress Centre | dates = 21–22 November 2002 | website = {{url|www.nato.int}} | follows = 2002 Rome summit | precedes = 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".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nato.int/docu/speech/2002/s021120b.htm|title=Press Conference by US President George W. Bush and Vaclav Havel, President of the Czech Republic|website=|publisher=NATO|access-date=19 May 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.think.cz/english/politics/media-endures-separation|title=Media Endures Separation|website=|date=27 December 2002 |publisher=The Prague Post Archive On Think Magazine|access-date=22 March 2023}}</ref>

==See also== * Individual Partnership Action Plan

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