page_title: 2014 Nuclear Security Summit
section_title: Participants
hierarchical_section_title: 2014 Nuclear Security Summit / Participants
caption_attribution_description: English: Participant nations of Nuclear Security Summit held in The Hague, Netherlands, March 24-25, 2014. &#160;&#160; Host nation (Netherlands) &#160;&#160; Participating nations &#160;&#160; European Union members represented by the President of the European Council and the President of the European Commission only (as observer) Nederlands: Deelnemende landen aan de Nuclear Security Summit in Den Haag, 24-25 maart 2014. &#160;&#160; Gastland (Nederland) &#160;&#160; Deelnemende landen &#160;&#160; Lidstaten van de Europese Unie die alleen vertegenwoordigd zijn door de voorzitter van de Europese Raad en de voorzitter van de Europese Commissie (als waarnemer)
context_page_description: The 2014 Nuclear Security Summit was a summit held in The Hague, the Netherlands, on March 24 and 25, 2014. It was the third edition of the conference, succeeding the 2012 Nuclear Security Summit. The 2014 summit was attended by 58 world leaders, some 5,000 delegates and some 3,000 journalists. The representatives attending the summit included U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
  The main goal of the conference was generally to improve international cooperation and more specifically to assess which of the objectives that were set at the previous summits in Washington, D.C. and Seoul had not been accomplished in the previous four years and proposing ways of achieving them.
  The Nuclear Security Summit aimed to prevent nuclear terrorism by:
  reducing the amount of dangerous nuclear material in the world – especially highly enriched uranium
  improving the security of all nuclear material and radioactive sources
  improving international cooperation
  Countries that participated were interested in leading a certain security theme to a higher level.
context_section_description: The 2014 Nuclear Security Summit was the largest conference ever held in the Netherlands at the time. The 53 participated countries and 4 observing organizations of the 2014 Nuclear Security Summit were:
caption:   Host nation (Netherlands)   Participating nations   European Union members represented by the President of the European Council and the President of the European Commission only (as observer)
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