and
NATO Quint leaders (Hollande, Obama, Cameron, Renzi and Merkel) discussing the crisis with Russia The following declarations and agreements were made at the Summit: • Wales Summit Declaration • Framework Nation Concept (FNC) • FNC/UK - see
Joint Expeditionary Force • FNC/DE - German-led FNC on: • Deployable Headquarters • Joint Fires • Air and Missile Defence • Joint Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance • FNC/IT - Italian-led FNC on stabilization operations •
NATO Readiness Action Plan • Armed Forces Declaration • Joint Statement of the NATO-Ukraine Commission • Declaration on Afghanistan • The Wales Declaration on the Transatlantic Bond
Russia and Ukraine Immediately prior to the summit on 3 September 2014 French president
François Hollande announced the postponement of delivery of the first
Mistral-class amphibious assault ship which had been sold to Russia, a ship provisionally named , due to the
Russo-Ukrainian War. At the end of the summit Ukrainian president Poroshenko announced the
Minsk Protocol, a ceasefire which had been agreed with the separatist leader
Alexander Zakharchenko under terms proposed by Russian president
Vladimir Putin. The protocol was cautiously welcomed by NATO leaders. On 12 September 2014 the EU announced a much wider expansion of its sanctions programme over the Russian involvement in the war in Ukraine. On 12 September a communiqué of the US Treasury announced a sweeping ban on the Russian defense sector.
Wales Pledge For the first time, the Allies formally pledged to aim to move towards what had previously been an informal guideline based on
Article 3 of spending 2% of their gross domestic products on defense, and 20% of that on new equipment. For countries which spend less than 2% they agreed upon that these countries "aim to move towards the 2% guideline within a decade". In the aftermath of the pledge, defense spending increased among NATO members. At the beginning of 2018, eight of the 29 members either were meeting the target or were close to it; six others had laid out plans to reach the target by 2024 as promised; and Norway and Denmark had unveiled plans to substantially boost defense spending (including Norway's planned purchase 52 new
F-35 fighter jets).
Support for Military Intervention Against ISIL On 5 September 2014, the U.S., Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Turkey, and the United Kingdom, agreed to support anti-ISIL forces in
Iraq and
Syria with supplies and air support.
Joint Expeditionary Force (FNC/UK) On the initiative of the UK, the multinational
Joint Expeditionary Force was officially launched with a Letter of Intent at and peripheral to the Summit. It was subsumed under the new "Framework Nations Concept" rubric. Germany, the UK and Italy were to act as framework nations for groups of Allies coming together to work multi-nationally for the joint development of forces and capabilities required by NATO. ==Criticism==