Leaders from NATO countries are to meet in Chicago in May 2012, the military alliance's chief confirmed on Friday, dpa reported. "We'll have the next NATO summit in Chicago on May 20-21 next year," Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Rasmussen said leaders would discuss Afghanistan, cooperation on missile defence with Russia, pooling defence resources between NATO allies and partnerships with North African and Middle Eastern countries. -- SPA