Press Release (97)126 15 Oct. 1997

NATO's Headquarters celebrates 30 years in Belgium On 16 October 1967, NATO's International Staff and the then 15 national delegations to the North Atlantic Council (NAC) settled into their new Headquarters, over the former runways of the old Brussels airport. The decision to move the Council and International Staff to Brussels was taken by the Council meeting in Paris in December 1966. The construction of the new Headquarters started in March 1967 and was completed in only 29 weeks. NATO has put together a photo exhibition in its Media Centre to commemorate the event.