List of international trips made by presidents of the United States
International trips made by the President of the United States have become a valuable part of U.S. diplomacy and international relations since such trips were first made in the early 20th century. They are complicated undertakings that require months of planning along with a great deal of coordination and communication. They also involve much ceremony and fuss.
Among the 19th century American social conventions governing political travel was a taboo against international travel. Domestic travel was regarded as a welcome opportunity for presidents to talk with the people who had elected them, but foreign travel was seen in an altogether different light. The general public did not want their president mingling with royalty, visiting grand palaces, or exchanging bows with kings and queens.[1]
This taboo began to erode and break down in the early 20th century, as policy makers at the federal level began to reevaluate the nation's role in international affairs. The first international presidential trip, Theodore Roosevelt's 1906 visit to Panama, signaled a new era in how presidents conducted diplomatic relations with other countries.[2] Woodrow Wilson's trips to Europe in the Aftermath of World War I and his promotion of his own principles for world peace sealed the old taboo's fate.
Changing transportation technologies also played a role in the changing patterns of presidential travel as well. When Wilson traveled to Europe in 1919 aboard the George Washington, the voyage took nine days. Forty years later, Dwight Eisenhower made the same trip by jet in nine hours. Jet aircraft enabled American presidents to travel the globe in ways that would have been impractical if not inconceivable before.[1]
While Eisenhower was the first president to travel by jet (and the first to travel via helicopter as well), the first airplane trips by a sitting president were those of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He made multiple long distance trips abroad by plane, each one an offshoot of Allied diplomatic interactions during World War II. President John F. Kennedy had one of the most memorable trips to Europe during the summer of 1963, only a few months before he was assassinated. His successor, Lyndon B. Johnson preferred travel to Asia. Richard Nixon set a number of firsts, in particular China. Jimmy Carter spent a great deal of time in the Middle East and went on the first state visit to Africa. Ronald Reagan had a number of noteworthy state visits, particularly his summit meetings with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
The frequency and travel distance of presidential international travel has increased dramatically since George H. W. Bush became president in 1989. In 1990 the military version of the Boeing 747, the VC-25, was introduced for the use of the president. The planes have over 4,000 square feet (372 m2) of floor space, a bedroom and a shower, and enough secure communications to allow the plane to be a reasonable place to run the country. The plane is accompanied by a heavy lift aircraft that carries the helicopters and the limousines.
Presidents Bill Clinton (1993–2001) and George W. Bush (2001–09) each visited 74 different countries during their respective terms of office. All totaled, they went to 94 different countries with a combined population of 85% of the world total. As of December 2016[update], President Barack Obama (2009–present) has visited 58 different countries. Presidential visits of over 10,000 miles (16,093 km) are common. Round the world trips were first done by Johnson and Nixon and have been done by presidents Bush and Clinton. Trips to Europe and Asia are becoming almost routine in the 21st century.
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt made one international trip during his presidency.[3] Although presidents before him had traveled outside the U.S. in other diplomatic capacities prior to or after serving as president, Roosevelt was the first to do so while in office.[2]
Dates | Country | Locations | Details |
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November 14–17, 1906 | Panama | Colón, Panama City |
To inspect construction of Panama Canal. First visit abroad by any President or President-elect. Departed the U.S. November 9; returned to U.S. November 26. |
William Howard Taft
William Howard Taft made one international trip while president-elect and one during his presidency.[4] His trip while in office was to the Mexico–United States border for an exchange of visits with the President of Mexico. On the day of the summit, a man holding a palm pistol was captured and disarmed within only a few feet of the two presidents.[5]
Dates | Country | Locations | Details |
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January 29 – February 7, 1909 | Panama | Colón, Panama City |
Inspected construction of Panama Canal. Met with President José Domingo de Obaldía. (Visit made as President-elect.) |
October 16, 1909 | Mexico | Ciudad Juarez | Part of an exchange of visits with President Porfirio Díaz across the border from El Paso, Texas. |
Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson made one international trip while president-elect and two during his presidency.[6] Wilson was the first sitting president to travel to Europe. He spent nearly seven months in Europe after World War I (interrupted by a brief 9-day return stateside). He was awarded the 1919 Nobel Peace Prize for his peacemaking efforts.[7]
Dates | Country | Locations | Details | |
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1 | November 18 – December 13, 1912 |
Bermuda | Vacation. (Visit made as President-elect.) | |
2 | December 14–25, 1918 | France | Paris, Chaumont |
Attended preliminary discussions prior to the Paris Peace Conference; promoted his Fourteen Points principles for world peace. Departed the U.S. December 4. |
December 26–31, 1918 | United Kingdom | London, Carlisle, Manchester |
Met with Prime Minister David Lloyd George and King George V. | |
December 31, 1918 – January 1, 1919 | France | Paris | Stopover en route to Italy. | |
January 1–6, 1919 | Italy | Rome, Genoa, Milan, Turin |
Met with King Victor Emmanuel III and Prime Minister Vittorio Orlando. | |
January 4, 1919 | Vatican | Rome | Audience with Pope Benedict XV. | |
January 7–14, 1919 | France | Paris | Attended Paris Peace Conference. Arrived In the U.S. February 24. | |
3 | March 14 – June 18, 1919 | France | Paris | Attended Paris Peace Conference. Departed the U.S. March 5. |
June 18–19, 1919 | Belgium | Brussels, Charleroi, Malines, Louvain |
Met with King Albert I. Addressed Parliament. | |
June 20–28, 1919 | France | Paris | Attended Paris Peace Conference. Returned to U.S. July 8. |
Warren G. Harding
Warren G. Harding made one international trip while president-elect and one during his presidency.[8] In 1923, he became the first president to visit Canada while in office, stopping in Vancouver on his way back from the first-ever presidential trip to Alaska. Harding died a week later, in San Francisco.[9]
Dates | Country | Locations | Details | |
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1 | November 24, 1920 | Panama | Colón, Baihos |
Informal visit to Panama Canal Zone. (Visit made as President-elect.) |
November 30, 1920 | Jamaica | Kingston | Stopped while returning to the U.S. (Visit made as President-elect.) | |
2 | July 26, 1923 | Canada | Vancouver | Official reception during return from Alaska, hosted by British Columbia Premier John Oliver and Vancouver mayor Charles Tisdall.[10] |
Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge made one international trip during his presidency.[11]
Dates | Country | Locations | Details |
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January 15–17, 1928 | Cuba | Havana | Met with President Gerardo Machado.[12] Addressed the Sixth International Conference of American States. He extend an olive branch to Latin American leaders embittered over America's interventionist policies in Central America and the Caribbean.[13] |
Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover made one international “good will” trip, to Central and South America, during the time when he was president-elect.[14] He delivered twenty-five speeches, almost all of which stressed his plans to reduce American political and military interference in Latin American affairs. In sum, he pledged that the United States would act as a "good neighbor."[15][16] While crossing the Andes from Chile, a plot to bomb Hoover’s train as it crossed the vast Argentinian central plain was foiled.[17]
Dates | Country | Locations | Details |
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November 26, 1928 | Honduras | Amapala | Met with President-elect Vicente Mejía Colindres and Foreign Minister Augusto Coello.[18] Departed the U.S. November 19, 1928.[19] |
November 26, 1928 | El Salvador | Cutuco | Met with Minister of Foreign Affairs Francisco Martínez Suárez.[18] |
November 27, 1928 | Nicaragua | Corinto | Met with President Adolfo Díaz and President-elect José María Moncada.[19] |
November 28, 1928 | Costa Rica | San José | Met with President Cleto González Víquez.[18][20] |
December 1, 1928 | Ecuador | Guayaquil | Met with President Isidro Ayora.[18] |
December 5, 1928 | Peru | Lima | Met with President Augusto B. Leguía.[18] |
December 8–11, 1928 | Chile | Antofagasta, Santiago |
Met with President Carlos Ibáñez del Campo. Met with Bolivian diplomats to discuss the ongoing Tacna–Arica dispute.[18][21] |
December 13–15, 1928 | Argentina | Buenos Aires | Met with President Hipólito Yrigoyen.[22] Also reported to President Coolidge on the success of his tour via telegraph.[23] |
December 16–18, 1928 | Uruguay | Montevideo | Met with President Juan Campisteguy, and addressed the National Council of Administration.[18] |
December 21–23, 1928 | Brazil | Rio de Janeiro | Met with President Washington Luís; addressed the National Congress and the Supreme Federal Court.[19] Returned to U.S. January 6, 1929.[24] |
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt made one international trip while president-elect and 20 during his presidency.[25] His early travels were by ship, frequently for fishing vacations to the Bahama Banks, Canadian Maritimes or Newfoundland Island. In 1943 he became the first incumbent president to fly by airplane across the Atlantic Ocean during his secret mission to Casablanca. As a result of this trip, he also became the first president to visit North Africa while in office.
Dates | Country | Locations | Details | |
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1 | February 6–14, 1933 | The Bahamas | Fishing trip. (Visit made as President-elect.) | |
2 | June 29 – July 1, 1933 | Canada | Campobello Island | Vacation. |
3 | March 29 – April 11, 1934 | The Bahamas | Elbow Cay, Gun Cay.[26] |
Fishing trip. |
4 | July 5–6, 1934 | Haiti | Cap Haitien | Informal visit en route to vacation in Hawaii. |
July 10, 1934 | Colombia | Cartagena | ||
July 11–12, 1934 | Panama | Panama City | ||
5 | March 27 – April 6, 1935 | The Bahamas | Cat Cays, Lobos Cay, Great Inagua Island, Crooked Island[26] |
Fishing trip. |
6 | October 16, 1935 | Panama | Balboa | Informal visit with President Harmodio Arias Madrid while returning to Washington, D.C. from the U.S. West Coast. |
7 | March 24 – April 7, 1936 | The Bahamas | Great Inagua Island, Nassau |
Fishing trip. Luncheon with Governor Bede Clifford and the President of the Legislative Council, George Johnson.[27] |
8 | July 28–30, 1936 | Canada | Campobello Island | Vacation. |
July 31, 1936 | Quebec city | Official visit. Met with Governor General John Buchan. | ||
9 | November 21, 1936 | Trinidad and Tobago | Port of Spain | Stopped on the way to South America. |
November 27, 1936 | Brazil | Rio de Janeiro | Addressed Brazilian Congress. | |
November 30 – December 2, 1936 |
Argentina | Buenos Aires | Attended session of Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace. | |
December 3, 1936 | Uruguay | Montevideo | Official visit. Met with President Gabriel Terra. | |
December 11, 1936 | Trinidad and Tobago | Port of Spain | Stopped while returning to the United States. | |
10 | August 4–5, 1938 | Panama | Balboa | Informal visit with President Juan Demóstenes Arosemena during vacation in the Caribbean. |
11 | August 18, 1938 | Canada | Kingston | Received honorary degree from Queen's University and together with Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, and the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, Albert Edward Matthews, dedicated the Thousand Islands Bridge. |
12 | August 14–16, 1939 | Canada | Campobello Island, Sydney |
Vacation. |
August 17–20, 1939 | Newfoundland | Bay of Islands, Bonne Bay | ||
August 21–23, 1939 | Canada | Halifax | ||
13 | February 27, 1940 | Panama | Cristóbal, Balboa |
Met informally with President Augusto Samuel Boyd during vacation. |
14 | December 5, 1940 | Jamaica | Kingston | Inspected British base sites for possible American use. |
December 8, 1940 | Saint Lucia | Inspected British base sites for possible American use. | ||
December 8, 1940 | Martinique | Fort Saint Louis | Conferred with U.S. officials. | |
December 9, 1940 | British Leeward Islands | Antigua | Inspected British base sites for possible American use. | |
December 12–13, 1940 | The Bahamas | Eleuthera Island | Inspected British base sites for possible American use. Met with the Governor, H.R.H. the Duke of Windsor. Returned to the U.S. on December 14. | |
15 | August 9–12, 1941 | Newfoundland | Argentia | Conferred with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill aboard ship (HMS Prince of Wales and USS Augusta) in Placentia Bay. At the conclusion of the conference they issued the Atlantic Charter.[28] |
16 | January 11, 1943 | Trinidad and Tobago | Port of Spain | Overnight stop en route to Africa. |
January 12, 1943 | Brazil | Belém | ||
January 13, 1943 | The Gambia | Bathurst | ||
January 14–25, 1943 | Morocco | Casablanca | Attended Casablanca Conference with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. | |
January 25, 1943 | The Gambia | Bathurst | Overnight stop en route from Casablanca. | |
January 26–27, 1943 | Liberia | Monrovia | Informal visit. Met with President Edwin Barclay. | |
January 28, 1943 | Brazil | Natal | Informal visit. Met with President Getúlio Vargas. | |
January 29, 1943 | Trinidad and Tobago | Port of Spain | Overnight stop en route from Casablanca. | |
17 | April 20, 1943 | Mexico | Monterrey | Part of an exchange of visits with President Manuel Ávila Camacho across the border. |
18 | August 17–25, 1943 | Canada | Quebec City Ottawa |
Attended First Quebec Conference with Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Addressed senators, Members of Parliament, and the general public outside the houses of parliament.[29] |
19 | November 20–21, 1943 | Algeria | Oran | Disembarked. |
November 21–22, 1943 | Tunisia | Tunis | Overnight stop. | |
November 22–26, 1943 | Egypt | Cairo | Attended First Cairo Conference with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek. | |
November 27 – December 2, 1943 |
Iran | Tehran | Attended Tehran Conference with Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. | |
December 2–7, 1943 | Egypt | Cairo | Attended Second Cairo Conference with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Turkish President İsmet İnönü. | |
December 7–9, 1943 | Tunisia | Tunis | Conferred with General Dwight Eisenhower. | |
December 8, 1943 | Malta | Valletta | Visited Allied military installations | |
December 8, 1943 | Italy | Castelvetrano | Visited Allied military installations | |
December 9, 1943 | Senegal | Dakar | Re-embarked for the U.S. | |
20 | September 11–16, 1944 | Canada | Quebec City | Attended Second Quebec Conference with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the Allied Combined Chiefs of Staff. |
21 | February 2, 1945 | Malta | Floriana | Attended Malta Conference with Prime Minister Winston Churchill. |
February 3–12, 1945 | Soviet Union | Yalta | Attended Yalta Conference with Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. | |
February 13–15, 1945 | Egypt | Great Bitter Lake, Suez Canal, Alexandria |
Met with King Farouk, Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, Saudi Arabian King Ibn Saud, and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. | |
February 18, 1945 | Algeria | Algiers | Briefed U.S. Ambassadors to the United Kingdom, France, and Italy on the Yalta Conference. |
Harry Truman
Harry Truman made five international trips during his presidency.[30] Three months after ascending to the presidency, Truman made his only trans-Atlantic trip as president to participate in talks concerning how to administer the defeated Nazi Germany, which had agreed to unconditional surrender nine weeks earlier (V-E Day). He also visited neighboring Bermuda, Canada and Mexico, plus Brazil in South America. Truman only left the continental United States on two other occasions (to Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba, February 20-March 5, 1948; and to Wake Island, October 11–18, 1950) during his nearly eight years in office.[31]
Dates | Country | Locations | Details | |
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1 | July 15, 1945 | Belgium | Antwerp, Brussels |
Disembarked en route to Potsdam. |
July 16 – August 2, 1945 | Germany | Potsdam | Attended Potsdam Conference with British Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. | |
August 2, 1945 | United Kingdom | Plymouth | Informal meeting with King George VI. | |
2 | August 23–30, 1946 | Bermuda | Hamilton | Informal visit. Met with Governor General Ralph Leatham and inspected U.S. military facilities. |
3 | March 3–6, 1947 | Mexico | Mexico, D.F. | State visit. Met with President Miguel Alemán Valdés. |
4 | June 10–12, 1947 | Canada | Ottawa | Official visit. Met with Governor General Harold Alexander and Prime Minister Mackenzie King and addressed Parliament. |
5 | September 1–7, 1947 | Brazil | Rio de Janeiro | State visit. Addressed Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Continental Peace and Security and the Brazilian Congress. |
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower made one international trip while president-elect and 16 international trips during his presidency.[32] By the time he left office in 1961, Eisenhower had visited 26 countries.
In 1958, the Air Force added three Boeing 707 jets (designated SAM 970, 971, and 972), 707-153 models, into the presidential fleet. Starting in the summer of 1959 he made five major tours in one year to Europe, Southeast Asia, South America, Middle East, and Southern Asia. On his "Flight to Peace" Goodwill tour, from December 3 through 22, 1959, the President visited 11 nations including five in Asia, flying 22,000 miles in 19 days.
An official air traffic control call sign for a United States Air Force aircraft carrying the President was established for security purposes during Eisenhower's presidency. This came about following a 1953 incident where an Eastern Airlines commercial flight (8610) had the same call sign as the flight the president was on (Air Force 8610). The airliner accidentally entered the same airspace, and after the incident, the unique presidential aircraft call sign Air Force One was introduced in 1959.
Dates | Country | Locations | Details | |
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1 | December 2–5, 1952 | South Korea | Seoul | Visit to Korean combat zone. (Visit made as President-elect.) |
2 | October 19, 1953 | Mexico | Nueva Ciudad Guerrero | Dedication of Falcon Dam, with President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines.[33] |
3 | November 13–15, 1953 | Canada | Ottawa | State visit. Met with Governor General Vincent Massey and Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent. Addressed Parliament. |
4 | December 4–8, 1953 | Bermuda | Hamilton | Attended the Bermuda Conference with Prime Minister Winston Churchill and French Prime Minister Joseph Laniel. |
5 | July 16–23, 1955 | Switzerland | Geneva | Attended the Geneva Summit with British Prime Minister Anthony Eden, French Premier Edgar Faure and Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin. |
6 | July 21–23, 1956 | Panama | Panama City | Attended the meeting of the presidents of the American republics. |
7 | March 20–24, 1957 | Bermuda | Hamilton | Met with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. |
8 | December 14–19, 1957 | France | Paris | Attended the First NATO summit. |
9 | July 8–11, 1958 | Canada | Ottawa | Informal visit. Met with Governor General Vincent Massey and Prime Minister John Diefenbaker. Addressed Parliament. |
10 | February 19–20, 1959 | Mexico | Acapulco | Informal meeting with President Adolfo López Mateos. |
11 | June 26, 1959 | Canada | Montreal | Joined Queen Elizabeth II in ceremony opening the St. Lawrence Seaway. |
12 | August 26–27, 1959 | West Germany | Bonn | Informal meeting with Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and President Theodor Heuss. |
August 27 – September 2, 1959 |
United Kingdom | London, Balmoral, Chequers |
Informal visit. Met Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Queen Elizabeth II. | |
September 2–4, 1959 | France | Paris | Informal meeting with President Charles de Gaulle and Italian Prime Minister Antonio Segni. Addressed North Atlantic Council. | |
September 4–7, 1959 | United Kingdom | Culzean Castle | Rested before returning to the United States. | |
13 | December 4–6, 1959 | Italy | Rome | Informal visit. Met with President Giovanni Gronchi. |
December 6, 1959 | Vatican City | Apostolic Palace | Audience with Pope John XXIII. | |
December 6–7, 1959 | Turkey | Ankara | Informal visit. Met with President Celâl Bayar. | |
December 7–9, 1959 | Pakistan | Karachi | Informal visit. Met with President Ayub Khan. | |
December 9, 1959 | Afghanistan | Kabul | Informal visit. Met with King Mohammed Zahir Shah. | |
December 9–14, 1959 | India | New Delhi, Agra |
Met with President Rajendra Prasad and Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Addressed Parliament. | |
December 14, 1959 | Iran | Tehran | Met with Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Addressed Parliament. | |
December 14–15, 1959 | Greece | Athens | Official visit. Met with King Paul and Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis. Addressed Parliament. | |
December 17, 1959 | Tunisia | Tunis | Met with President Habib Bourguiba. | |
December 18–21, 1959 | France | Toulon, Paris |
Conference with President Charles de Gaulle, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. | |
December 21–22, 1959 | Spain | Madrid | Met with Generalissimo Francisco Franco. | |
December 22, 1959 | Morocco | Casablanca | Met with King Mohammed V. | |
14 | February 23–26, 1960 | Brazil | Brasília, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo |
Met with President Juscelino Kubitschek. Addressed Brazilian Congress. |
February 26–29, 1960 | Argentina | Buenos Aires, Mar del Plata, San Carlos de Bariloche |
Met with President Arturo Frondizi. | |
February 29 – March 2, 1960 |
Chile | Santiago | Met with President Jorge Alessandri. | |
March 2–3, 1960 | Uruguay | Montevideo | Met with President Benito Nardone. Returned to the U.S. via Buenos Aires and Suriname. | |
15 | May 15–19, 1960 | France | Paris | Conference with President Charles de Gaulle, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. |
May 19–20, 1960 | Portugal | Lisbon | Official visit. Met with President Américo Tomás. | |
16 | June 14–16, 1960 | Philippines | Manila | State visit. Met with President Carlos P. Garcia. |
June 18–19, 1960 | Republic of China | Taipei | State visit. Met with President Chiang Kai-shek. | |
June 19–20, 1960 | South Korea | Seoul | Met with Prime Minister Heo Jeong. Addressed the National Assembly. | |
17 | October 24, 1960 | Mexico | Ciudad Acuña | Informal visit. Met with President Adolfo López Mateos. |
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy made eight international trips during his presidency.[34] Two of these were to Europe, and the other six were to various nations in the Western Hemisphere. His second trip to Europe included the famous speech Ich bin ein Berliner at the Berlin Wall, the visit of the first Catholic president to Vatican City, and the trip to Kennedy's ancestral home in Ireland. First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy traveled with him on his 1961 visit to France and received such a popular reaction there that the President quipped "I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris – and I have enjoyed it!"[35][36]
Dates | Country | Locations | Details | |
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1 | May 16–18, 1961 | Canada | Ottawa | State visit. Met with Governor General Georges Vanier and Prime Minister John Diefenbaker. Addressed parliament. |
2 | May 31 – June 3, 1961 | France | Paris | State visit. Addressed North Atlantic Council. Met with President Charles de Gaulle. |
June 3–4, 1961 | Austria | Vienna | Met with President Adolf Schärf. held talks with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. | |
June 4–5, 1961 | United Kingdom | London | Private visit. Met with Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. | |
3 | December 16–17, 1961 | Venezuela | Caracas | Met with President Rómulo Betancourt. |
December 17, 1961 | Colombia | Bogota | Met with President Alberto Lleras Camargo. | |
4 | December 21–22, 1961 | Bermuda | Hamilton | Met with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. |
5 | June 29 – July 1, 1962 | Mexico | Mexico, D.F. | State visit. Met with President Adolfo López Mateos. |
6 | December 18–21, 1962 | The Bahamas | Nassau | Conferred with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. Concluded Nassau Agreement on nuclear defense systems. |
7 | March 18–20, 1963 | Costa Rica | San José | Attended Conference of Presidents of the Central American Republics. |
8 | June 23–25, 1963 | West Germany | Bonn, Cologne, Frankfurt, Wiesbaden |
Met with Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and other officials. |
June 26, 1963 | West Germany | West Berlin | Delivered several public addresses. | |
June 26–29, 1963 | Ireland | Dublin, Wexford, Cork, Galway, Limerick |
Addressed Irish Parliament. Visited ancestral home.[37] | |
June 29–30, 1963 | United Kingdom | Birch Grove | Informal visit with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan at his home. | |
July 1–2, 1963 | Italy | Rome, Naples |
Met with President Antonio Segni, Italian and NATO officials. | |
July 2, 1963 | Vatican City | Apostolic Palace | Audience with the newly elected Pope Paul VI. |
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson made eleven international trips during his presidency.[38] He flew 523,000 miles aboard Air Force One while in office. Eschewing Europe in favor of Southeast Asia and Latin America. One of the most unusual international trips in presidential history occurred before Christmas in 1967. The President began the trip by going to the memorial service for Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt, who had disappeared in a swimming accident and was presumed drowned. The White House did not reveal in advance to the press that the President would make the first round-the-world presidential trip. The exhausting trip was 26,959 miles completed in only 112.5 hours (4.7 days). The trip crossed the equator twice, stopped in Travis Air Force Base, Calif., then Honolulu, Pago Pago, Canberra, Melbourne, Vietnam, Karachi and Rome.
Dates | Country | Locations | Details | |
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1 | September 16, 1964 | Canada | Vancouver | Informal visit. Met with Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson in ceremonies related to the Columbia River Treaty. |
2 | April 14–15, 1966 | Mexico | Mexico, D.F. | Informal visit. Met with President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz. |
3 | August 21–22, 1966 | Canada | Campobello Island, Chamcook |
Laid cornerstone at Roosevelt Campobello International Park. Conferred informally with Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson. |
4 | October 19–20, 1966 | New Zealand | Wellington | State visit. Met with Prime Minister Keith Holyoake. |
October 20–23, 1966 | Australia | Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Townsville |
State visit. Met with Governor-General Richard Casey and Prime Minister Harold Holt. | |
October 24–26, 1966 | Philippines | Manila, Los Baños, Corregidor |
Attended the summit conference with the heads of State and government of Australia, Korea, New Zealand, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. | |
October 26, 1966 | South Vietnam | Cam Ranh Bay | Visited U.S. military personnel. | |
October 27–30, 1966 | Thailand | Bangkok | State visit. Met with King Bhumibol Adulyadej. | |
October 30–31, 1966 | Malaysia | Kuala Lumpur | State visit. Met with Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman | |
October 31 – November 2, 1966 |
South Korea | Seoul, Suwon |
State visit. Met with President Park Chung-hee and Prime Minister Chung Il-kwon. Addressed National Assembly. | |
5 | December 3, 1966 | Mexico | Ciudad Acuña | Informal meeting with President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz. Inspected construction of Amistad Dam. |
6 | April 11–14, 1967 | Uruguay | Punta del Este | Summit meeting with Latin American heads of state. |
April 14, 1967 | Suriname | Paramaribo | Refueling stop en route from Uruguay. | |
7 | April 23–26, 1967 | West Germany | Bonn | Attended the funeral of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and conversed with various heads of state. |
8 | May 25, 1967 | Canada | Montreal, Ottawa |
Met with Governor General Roland Michener. Attended Expo 67. Conferred informally with Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson. |
9 | October 28, 1967 | Mexico | Ciudad Juarez | Attended transfer of El Chamizal from the U.S. to Mexico. Conferred with President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz. |
10 | December 21–22, 1967 | Australia | Canberra | Attended the funeral of Prime Minister Harold Holt. Conferred with other attending heads of state. |
December 23, 1967 | Thailand | Khorat | Visited U.S. military personnel. | |
December 23, 1967 | South Vietnam | Cam Ranh Bay | Visited U.S. military personnel. | |
December 23, 1967 | Pakistan | Karachi | Met with President Ayub Khan. | |
December 23, 1967 | Italy | Rome | Met with President Giuseppe Saragat and Prime Minister Aldo Moro. | |
December 23, 1967 | Vatican City | Apostolic Palace | Audience with Pope Paul VI. | |
11 | July 6–8, 1968 | El Salvador | San Salvador | Attended the Conference of Presidents of the Central American Republics. |
July 8, 1968 | Nicaragua | Managua | Informal visit. Met with President Anastasio Somoza Debayle. | |
July 8, 1968 | Costa Rica | San José | Informal visit. Met with President José Joaquín Trejos Fernández. | |
July 8, 1968 | Honduras | San Pedro Sula | Informal visit. Met with President Oswaldo López Arellano. | |
July 8, 1968 | Guatemala | Guatemala City | Informal visit. Met with President Julio César Méndez Montenegro. |
Richard M. Nixon
Richard M. Nixon made fifteen international trips during his presidency.[39] He made the unusual move of going on a week-long trip to Europe only five weeks after his inauguration. His most famous voyage was to the People's Republic of China, the first by an incumbent President of the United States. He also made groundbreaking trips to other Communist-ruled nations as well, including: Romania (1969), Yugoslavia (1970), and the Soviet Union (1972 and 1974). In 1972 Nixon received delivery of the second custom outfitted jet to be used as Air Force One, VC-137C SAM 27000.
Dates | Country | Locations | Details | |
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1 | February 23–24, 1969 | Belgium | Brussels | Attended the 23rd meeting of North Atlantic Council. Met with King Baudouin I. |
February 24–26, 1969 | United Kingdom | London | Informal visit. Delivered several public addresses. | |
February 26–27, 1969 | West Germany | West Berlin Bonn |
Delivered several public addresses. Addressed the Bundestag. | |
February 27–28, 1969 | Italy | Rome | Met with President Giuseppe Saragat and Prime Minister Mariano Rumor and other officials. | |
February 28 – March 2, 1969 |
France | Paris | Met with President Charles de Gaulle. | |
March 2, 1969 | Vatican City | Apostolic Palace | Audience with Pope Paul VI. | |
2 | July 26–27, 1969 | Philippines | Manila | State visit. Met with President Ferdinand Marcos. |
July 27–28, 1969 | Indonesia | Jakarta | State visit. Met with President Suharto. | |
July 28–30, 1969 | Thailand | Bangkok | State visit. Met with King Bhumibol Adulyadej. | |
July 30, 1969 | South Vietnam | Saigon, Di An |
Met with President Nguyen Van Thieu. Visited U.S. military personnel. | |
July 31 – August 1, 1969 | India | New Delhi | State visit. Met with Acting President Mohammad Hidayatullah. | |
August 1–2, 1969 | Pakistan | Lahore | State visit. Met with President Yahya Khan. | |
August 2–3, 1969 | Romania | Bucharest | Official visit. Met with President Nicolae Ceaușescu. | |
August 3, 1969 | United Kingdom | RAF Mildenhall | Informal meeting with Prime Minister Harold Wilson. | |
3 | September 8, 1969 | Mexico | Ciudad Acuña | Dedication of Amistad Dam with President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz. |
4 | August 20–21, 1970 | Mexico | Puerto Vallarta | Official visit. Met with President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz. |
5 | September 27–30, 1970 | Italy | Rome, Naples |
Official visit. Met with President Giuseppe Saragat. Visited NATO Southern Command. |
September 28, 1970 | Vatican City | Apostolic Palace | Audience with Pope Paul VI. | |
September 30 – October 2, 1970 |
Yugoslavia | Belgrade, Zagreb |
State visit. Met with President Josip Broz Tito. | |
October 2–3, 1970 | Spain | Madrid | State visit. Met with Generalissimo Francisco Franco. | |
October 3, 1970 | United Kingdom | Chequers | Met informally with Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Edward Heath. | |
October 3–5, 1970 | Ireland | Limerick, Timahoe, Dublin |
State visit. Met with T Prime Minister Jack Lynch. | |
6 | November 12, 1970 | France | Paris | Attended the memorial services for former President Charles de Gaulle. |
7 | December 13–14, 1971 | Portugal | Terceira Island | Discussed international monetary problems with French President Georges Pompidou and Portuguese Prime Minister Marcelo Caetano. |
8 | December 20–21, 1971 | Bermuda | Hamilton | Met with Prime Minister Edward Heath. |
9 | February 21–28, 1972 | China | Shanghai, Peking, Hangchow |
State visit. Met with Party Chairman Mao Zedong and Premier Zhou Enlai. |
10 | April 13–15, 1972 | Canada | Ottawa | State visit. Met with Governor General Roland Michener and Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Addressed Parliament. Signed the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement.[40] |
11 | May 20–22, 1972 | Austria | Salzburg | Informal visit. Met with Chancellor Bruno Kreisky. |
May 22–30, 1972 | Soviet Union | Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev |
State visit. Met with Premier Alexei Kosygin and General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev. Signed the SALT I and ABM Treaties. | |
May 30–31, 1972 | Iran | Tehran | Official visit. Met with Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. | |
May 31 – June 1, 1972 | Poland | Warsaw | Official visit. Met with First Secretary Edward Gierek. | |
12 | May 31 – June 1, 1973 | Iceland | Reykjavík | Met with President Kristján Eldjárn and Prime Minister Ólafur Jóhannesson and French President Georges Pompidou. |
13 | April 5–7, 1974 | France | Paris | Attended the memorial services for former President Georges Pompidou. Met afterward with interim President Alain Poher, Italian President Giovanni Leone, British Prime Minister Harold Wilson, West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, Danish Prime Minister Poul Hartling, Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny and Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka. |
14 | June 10–12, 1974 | Austria | Salzburg | Met with Chancellor Bruno Kreisky. |
June 12–14, 1974 | Egypt | Cairo, Alexandria |
Met with President Anwar Sadat. | |
June 14–15, 1974 | Saudi Arabia | Jedda | Met with King Faisal. | |
June 15–16, 1974 | Syria | Damascus | Met with President Hafez al-Assad. | |
June 16–17, 1974 | Israel | Tel Aviv, Jerusalem |
Met with President Ephraim Katzir and Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. | |
June 17–18, 1974 | Jordan | Amman | State visit. Met with King Hussein. | |
June 18–19, 1974 | Portugal | Lajes Field | Met with President António de Spínola. | |
15 | June 25–26, 1974 | Belgium | Brussels | Attended the North Atlantic Council Meeting. Met separately with King Baudouin I and Queen Fabiola, Prime Minister Leo Tindemans, and with German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Italian Prime Minister Mariano Rumor. |
June 27 – July 3, 1974 | Soviet Union | Moscow, Minsk, Oreanda |
Official visit. Met with General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, President Nikolai Podgorny and Premier Alexei Kosygin. Signing of the Threshold Test Ban Treaty. |
Gerald Ford
Gerald Ford made seven international trips during his presidency.[41] Ford made the first visit of a sitting president to Japan, and followed it with a trip to the Republic of Korea and the Soviet Union (to attend the Vladivostok Summit).
Dates | Country | Locations | Details | |
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1 | October 21, 1974 | Mexico | Nogales, Magdalena de Kino | Met with President Luis Echeverría and laid a wreath at the tomb of Padre Eusebio Kino. |
2 | November 19–22, 1974 | Japan | Tokyo, Kyoto |
State visit. Met with Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka. |
November 22–23, 1974 | South Korea | Seoul | Met with President Park Chung-hee. | |
November 23–24, 1974 | Soviet Union | Vladivostok | Met with General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev and discussed limitations of strategic arms. | |
3 | December 14–16, 1974 | Martinique | Fort-de-France | Met with President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. |
4 | May 28–31, 1975 | Belgium | Brussels | Attended the NATO Summit Meeting. Addressed the North Atlantic Council and met separately with NATO heads of state and government. |
May 31 – June 1, 1975 | Spain | Madrid | Met with Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Received keys to city from Mayor of Madrid Miguel Angel García-Lomas Mata. | |
June 1–3, 1975 | Austria | Salzburg | Met with Chancellor Bruno Kreisky and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. | |
June 3, 1975 | Italy | Rome | Met with President Giovanni Leone and Prime Minister Aldo Moro. | |
June 3, 1975 | Vatican City | Apostolic Palace | Audience with Pope Paul VI. | |
5 | July 26–28, 1975 | West Germany | Bonn, Linz am Rhein |
Met with President Walter Scheel and Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. |
July 28–29, 1975 | Poland | Warsaw, Kraków |
Official visit. Met with First Secretary Edward Gierek. | |
July 29 – August 2, 1975 | Finland | Helsinki | Attended opening session of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Met with the heads of state and government of Finland, Great Britain, Turkey, West Germany, France, Italy and Spain. Also met with Soviet General Secretary Brezhnev. Signed the final act of the conference. | |
August 2–3, 1975 | Romania | Bucharest, Sinaia |
Official visit. Met with President Nicolae Ceaușescu. | |
August 3–4, 1975 | Yugoslavia | Belgrade | Official visit. Met with President Josip Broz Tito and Prime Minister Džemal Bijedić. | |
6 | November 15–17, 1975 | France | Rambouillet | Attended the 1st G6 summit. |
7 | December 1–5, 1975 | China | Peking | Official visit. Met with Party Chairman Mao Zedong and Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping. |
December 5–6, 1975 | Indonesia | Jakarta | Official visit. Met with President Suharto. | |
December 6–7, 1975 | Philippines | Manila | Official visit. Met with President Ferdinand Marcos. |
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter made twelve international trips during his presidency.[42] Carter was the first president to make a state visit to Sub-Saharan Africa when he went to Nigeria in 1978. His travel included five trips to Europe and one trip to Asia. He also made several trips to the Middle East to broker peace negotiations. He was awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize for his peacemaking efforts.[43] In 1978 he travelled to Panama City to sign a protocol confirming exchange of documents ratifying the Panama Canal treaties.
Dates | Country | Locations | Details | |
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1 | May 5–11, 1977 | United Kingdom | London, Newcastle |
Attended the 3rd G7 summit. Also met with the prime ministers of Greece, Belgium, Turkey, Norway, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, and with the President of Portugal. Addressed NATO Ministers meeting. |
May 9, 1977 | Switzerland | Geneva | Official visit. Met with President Kurt Furgler. Also met with Syrian President Hafez al-Assad. | |
2 | December 29–31, 1977 | Poland | Warsaw | Official visit. Met with First Secretary Edward Gierek. |
December 31, 1977 – January 1, 1978 | Iran | Tehran | Official visit. Met with Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and King Hussein of Jordan. | |
January 1–3, 1978 | India | New Delhi, Daulatpur Nasirabad[44] | Met with President Neelam Sanjiva Reddy and Prime Minister Morarji Desai. Addressed Parliament of India. | |
January 3–4, 1978 | Saudi Arabia | Riyadh | Met with King Khalid and Crown Prince Fahd. | |
January 4, 1978 | Egypt | Aswan | Met with President Anwar Sadat and German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. | |
January 4–6, 1978 | France | Paris, Normandy, Bayeux, Versailles |
Met with President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and Prime Minister Raymond Barre. | |
January 6, 1978 | Belgium | Brussels | Met with King Baudouin and Prime Minister Leo Tindemans. Attended meetings of the Commission of the European Communities and the North Atlantic Council. | |
3 | March 28–29, 1978 | Venezuela | Caracas | Met with President Carlos Andrés Pérez. Addressed Congress and signed maritime boundary agreement. |
March 29–31, 1978 | Brazil | Brasília Rio de Janeiro |
Official visit. Met with President Ernesto Geisel and addressed National Congress. | |
March 31 – April 3, 1978 | Nigeria | Lagos | State visit. Met with President Olusegun Obasanjo. | |
April 3, 1978 | Liberia | Monrovia | Met with President William R. Tolbert, Jr.. | |
4 | June 16–17, 1978 | Panama | Panama City | Invited by President Demetrio B. Lakas and General Omar Torrijos to sign protocol confirming exchange of documents ratifying Panama Canal treaties. Also met informally with Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez, Colombian President Alfonso López Michelsen, Mexican President José López Portillo, Costa Rican Rodrigo Carazo Odio and Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley of Jamaica. |
5 | July 14–15, 1978 | West Germany | Bonn, Wiesbaden-Erbenheim, Frankfurt |
State visit. Met with President Walter Scheel and Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Addressed U.S. and German military personnel. |
July 15, 1978 | West Germany | West Berlin | Spoke at the Berlin Airlift Memorial. | |
July 16–17, 1978 | West Germany | Bonn | Attended the 4th G7 summit. | |
6 | January 4–9, 1979 | Guadeloupe | Basse-Terre | Met informally with President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and British Prime Minister James Callaghan. |
7 | February 14–16, 1979 | Mexico | Mexico City | State visit. Met with President José López Portillo. Addressed the Mexican Congress. |
8 | March 7–9, 1979 | Egypt | Cairo, Alexandria, Giza |
State visit. Met with President Anwar Sadat. Addressed People's Assembly of Egypt. |
March 10–13, 1979 | Israel | Tel Aviv, Jerusalem |
State visit. Met with President Yitzhak Navon and Prime Minister Menachem Begin. Addressed the Knesset. | |
March 13, 1979 | Egypt | Cairo | Met with President Anwar Sadat. | |
9 | June 14–18, 1979 | Austria | Vienna | State visit. Met with President Rudolf Kirchschläger and Chancellor Bruno Kreisky. Met with Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev to sign SALT II Treaty. |
10 | June 25–29, 1979 | Japan | Tokyo, Shimoda |
Attended the 5th G7 summit. State visit. Met with Emperor Hirohito and Prime Minister Masayoshi Ōhira. |
June 29 – July 1, 1979 | South Korea | Seoul | State visit. Met with President Park Chung-hee and Prime Minister Choi Kyu-hah. | |
11 | June 19–24, 1980 | Italy | Rome, Venice |
Attended the 6th G7 summit. State Visit. Met with President Sandro Pertini. |
June 21, 1980 | Vatican City | Apostolic Palace | Audience with Pope John Paul II. | |
June 24–25, 1980 | Yugoslavia | Belgrade | Official visit. Met with President Cvijetin Mijatović. | |
June 25–26, 1980 | Spain | Madrid | Official visit. Met with King Juan Carlos I and Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez. | |
June 26–30, 1980 | Portugal | Lisbon | Official visit. Met with President António Ramalho Eanes and Prime Minister Francisco de Sá Carneiro. | |
12 | July 9–10, 1980 | Japan | Tokyo | Official visit. Attended memorial services for former Prime Minister Masayoshi Ōhira. Met with Emperor Hirohito, Bangla President Ziaur Rahman, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, Thai Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda and Chinese Premier Hua Guofeng. |
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan made 25 international trips during his presidency.[45] He made seven trips to continental Europe, three to Asia and one to South America. He is perhaps best remembered for his speeches at the 40th anniversary of the Normandy landings, for his impassioned speech at the Berlin Wall, his summit meetings with Mikhail Gorbachev, and riding horses with the Queen at Windsor Park.
Reagan's presidency would be transitional in international travel. During his term in office, he ordered the two special mission Boeing VC-25 that would become the new presidential transport to replace the aging Boeing 707s. Heavy lift aircraft could bring security, limousines, and helicopters. After that time, the president had access to inflight bedrooms and showers, boardrooms, and communication equipment and with refueling virtually unlimited range. Summit meetings would proliferate, and international travel would become more of a constant expectation of the presidency.
Dates | Country | Locations | Details | |
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1 | January 5, 1981 | Mexico | Ciudad Juárez | Met with President José López Portillo. (Visit made as President-elect.) |
2 | March 10–11, 1981 | Canada | Ottawa | State visit. Met with Governor General Edward Schreyer and Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Addressed parliament. |
3 | July 19–21, 1981 | Canada | Ottawa, Montebello |
Attended the 7th G7 summit. |
4 | October 21–24, 1981 | Mexico | Cancun | Attended the North–South Summit on International Cooperation and Development. Met with the heads of state and government of Algeria, Bangladesh, Canada, China, France, Guyana, India, Japan, Mexico, Nigeria, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Tanzania, the United Kingdom, Venezuela and Yugoslavia. |
5 | April 7–8, 1982 | Jamaica | Kingston | Official visit. Met with Prime Minister Edward Seaga. |
April 8–11, 1982 | Barbados | Bridgetown | Official visit. Met with the prime ministers of Barbados, Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda, St. Christopher and Nevis, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. | |
6 | June 2–7, 1982 | France | Paris | State visit. Met with President François Mitterrand and Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy. |
June 5–6, 1982 | France | Versailles | Attended the 8th G7 summit. | |
June 7, 1982 | Italy | Rome | State visit. Met with President Sandro Pertini and Premier Giovanni Spadolini. | |
June 7, 1982 | Vatican City | Apostolic Palace | Audience with Pope John Paul II. | |
June 7–9, 1982 | United Kingdom | London, Windsor Castle |
State visit. Met with Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Addressed Parliament. | |
June 9–11, 1982 | West Germany | Bonn | State visit. Met with Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and President Karl Carstens. Addressed the Bundestag and attended a meeting of the North Atlantic Council. | |
June 11, 1982 | West Germany | West Berlin | Met with Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. | |
7 | October 8, 1982 | Mexico | Tijuana | Exchange of visits with President-elect Miguel de la Madrid. |
8 | November 30 – December 3, 1982 | Brazil | Brasília, São Paulo |
Official working visit. Met with President João Figueiredo. |
December 3, 1982 | Colombia | Bogota | Official working visit. Met with President Belisario Betancur. | |
December 3–4, 1982 | Costa Rica | San José | Official working visit. Met with President Luis Alberto Monge and President Álvaro Magaña of El Salvador. | |
December 4, 1982 | Honduras | San Pedro Sula | Official working visit. Met with President Roberto Suazo Córdova and with Guatemalan President Efraín Ríos Montt. | |
9 | August 14, 1983 | Mexico | La Paz | Informal meeting with President Miguel de la Madrid. |
10 | November 9–12, 1983 | Japan | Tokyo | State visit. Met with Emperor Hirohito and Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone and addressed the Diet. |
November 12–14, 1983 | South Korea | Seoul, Demilitarized Zone |
State visit. Met with President Chun Doo-hwan. Addressed the National Assembly and visited U.S. troops. | |
11 | April 26 – May 1, 1984 | China | Beijing, Xian, Shanghai |
State visit. Met with President Li Xiannian and Premier Zhao Ziyang. |
12 | June 1–4, 1984 | Ireland | Shannon, Galway, Ballyporeen, Dublin | Met with President Patrick Hillery and Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald. Visited ancestral home. Addressed Parliament. |
June 4–10, 1984 | United Kingdom | London | Attended the 10th G7 summit. | |
June 6, 1984 | France | Normandy | Attended commemorative ceremonies of the 40th anniversary of the Allied landing in Normandy. Also present were Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, King Olav V of Norway, King Baudouin I of Belgium, French President François Mitterrand, Queen Elizabeth II and Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg. | |
13 | March 17–18, 1985 | Canada | Quebec City | Met with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. |
14 | April 30 – May 4, 1985 | West Germany | Bonn | Attended the 11th G7 summit. |
May 5–6, 1985 | West Germany | Bonn, Bergen-Belsen, Bitburg, Hambach Castle |
State visit. Attended ceremonies commemorating 40th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe. | |
May 6–8, 1985 | Spain | Madrid | State visit. Met with King Juan Carlos I and President Felipe González. | |
May 8, 1985 | France | Strasbourg | Addressed the European Parliament. | |
May 8–10, 1985 | Portugal | Lisbon | State visit. Met with President António Ramalho Eanes and Prime Minister Mário Soares. Addressed the National Assembly. | |
15 | November 16–21, 1985 | Switzerland | Geneva | Attended the Summit Meeting with Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. Met also with Swiss President Kurt Furgler. |
November 21, 1985 | Belgium | Brussels | Attended the NATO Summit Meeting. Present were the Heads of State and Government of Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Luxembourg, Portugal, Turkey and the United Kingdom. | |
16 | January 3, 1986 | Mexico | Mexicali | Informal meeting with President Miguel de la Madrid. |
17 | February 20, 1986 | Grenada | St. George's | Met with Governor General Paul Scoon and Prime Minister Herbert Blaize, and with the Prime Ministers of Barbados, Dominica, Jamaica, St. Lucia, St. Christopher and Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Antigua and Barbuda, and Trinidad and Tobago. Dedicated a memorial to U.S. servicemen. |
18 | April 29 – May 2, 1986 | Indonesia | Bali | Attended the ASEAN Ministerial Meeting. Met with Indonesian President Suharto and Philippine Vice President Salvador Laurel. |
May 2–7, 1986 | Japan | Tokyo | Attended the 12th G7 summit. | |
19 | October 9–12, 1986 | Iceland | Reykjavík | Pre-Summit Meeting with Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. Met with President Vigdís Finnbogadóttir. |
20 | April 4–5, 1987 | Canada | Ottawa | State visit. Met with Governor General Jeanne Sauvé and Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. Addressed parliament. |
21 | June 3–11, 1987 | Italy | Venice, Rome |
Attended the 13th G7 summit. Met with President Francesco Cossiga and Prime Minister Amintore Fanfani in Rome. |
June 6, 1987 | Vatican City | Apostolic Palace | Audience with Pope John Paul II. | |
June 11–12, 1987 | West Germany | West Berlin | Attended celebration’s commemorating the 750th Anniversary of the founding of Berlin. Met with Chancellor Helmut Kohl. | |
June 12, 1987 | West Germany | Bonn | Met with Chancellor Helmut Kohl. | |
22 | February 13, 1988 | Mexico | Mazatlan | Informal meeting with President Miguel de la Madrid. Signed textile agreement. |
23 | March 1–3, 1988 | Belgium | Brussels | Attended the NATO Summit Meeting. Present were the Heads of State and Government of Canada, Denmark, France, Federal Republic of Germany, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Turkey and the United Kingdom. |
24 | May 25, 1988 | Finland | Helsinki | Met with President Mauno Koivisto and Prime Minister Harri Holkeri. |
May 29 – June 2, 1988 | Soviet Union | Moscow | Summit meeting with General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. Exchanged ratifications of the INF Treaty. | |
June 2–3, 1988 | United Kingdom | London | Met with Queen Elizabeth II, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita. | |
25 | June 19–21, 1988 | Canada | Toronto | Attended the 14th G7 summit. |
George H. W. Bush
George H. W. Bush made 26 international trips during his presidency.[46] He initiated the frequent international travel pace that is the hallmark of the post–Cold War presidency. He went to Europe 11 times, Asia twice, and South America once, along with a number of shorter trips during his four years in office.
Dates | Country | Locations | Details | |
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1 | February 10, 1989 | Canada | Ottawa | Met with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. |
2 | February 23–25, 1989 | Japan | Tokyo | Attended the funeral of Emperor Hirohito. Met with Emperor Akihito of Japan, the kings of Belgium, Jordan and Spain, the presidents of Brazil, Egypt, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Israel, Italy, Nigeria, the Philippines, Portugal and Zaire, and the prime ministers of Japan, Pakistan, Singapore, Thailand and Turkey. |
February 25–27, 1989 | China | Beijing | Met with President Yang Shangkun and Premier Li Peng. Also met with Prince Sihanouk of Cambodia. | |
February 27, 1989 | South Korea | Seoul | Official visit. Addressed the National Assembly. | |
3 | May 26–28, 1989 | Italy | Rome, Nettuno |
Met with President Francesco Cossiga and Prime Minister Ciriaco De Mita. |
May 27, 1989 | Vatican City | Apostolic Palice | Audience with Pope John Paul II. | |
May 28–30, 1989 | Belgium | Brussels | Attended the NATO Summit Meeting. Present were the heads of state and government of Canada, Denmark, France, Federal Republic of Germany, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. | |
May 30–31, 1989 | West Germany | Bonn, Mainz |
Met with Chancellor Helmut Kohl. | |
May 31 – June 2, 1989 | United Kingdom | London | Met with Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. | |
4 | July 9–11, 1989 | Poland | Warsaw, Gdańsk |
Met with government and Solidarity leaders. Addressed the National Assembly. |
July 11–13, 1989 | Hungary | Budapest | Met with Hungarian officials. Delivered an address at Karl Marx University. | |
July 13–17, 1989 | France | Paris | Attended the 15th G7 summit. Also attended ceremonies for the bicentennial of the French Revolution. Met with Ivorian President Félix Houphouët-Boigny. | |
July 17–18, 1989 | Netherlands | The Hague, Leiden |
Met with Queen Beatrix and Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers. Delivered a public address. | |
5 | October 27–28, 1989 | Costa Rica | San José | Attended the Hemispheric Summit Meeting. |
6 | December 1–3, 1989 | Malta | Valletta, Marsaxlokk |
Attended the Summit Meeting with Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. Also met with Maltese Prime Minister Eddie Fenech Adami. |
December 3–4, 1989 | Belgium | Brussels | Attended the NATO Summit Meeting, and briefed leaders on the Malta U.S.-Soviet Summit Meeting. | |
7 | December 16, 1989 | Saint Martin | Marigot | Informal meeting with President François Mitterrand. |
8 | February 15, 1990 | Colombia | Cartagena | Attended the Summit Meeting on the Control of Illicit Drug Trafficking with the President Virgilio Barco Vargas, Bolivian President Jaime Paz Zamora and Peruvian President Alan García Pérez. |
9 | April 10, 1990 | Canada | Toronto | Informal meeting with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. |
10 | April 13–14, 1990 | Bermuda | Hamilton | Informal meeting with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. |
11 | July 5–6, 1990 | United Kingdom | London | Attended the NATO Summit Meeting. |
12 | September 8–9, 1990 | Finland | Helsinki | Attended Summit Meeting with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. Issued joint statement on the Persian Gulf crisis. Also met with President Mauno Koivisto. |
13 | November 17, 1990 | Czechoslovakia | Prague | Attended ceremonies commemorating the first anniversary of the Velvet Revolution. Addressed the Federal Assembly. |
November 18, 1990 | Germany | Speyer, Ludwigshafen |
Met with Chancellor Helmut Kohl. | |
November 18–21, 1990 | France | Paris | Attended the CSCE Summit Meeting and the signing of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe. | |
November 21–22, 1990 | Saudi Arabia | Jeddah, Dhahran |
Met with King Fahd and the Amir of Kuwait. Addressed U.S. and British military personnel in eastern Saudi Arabia. | |
November 22–23, 1990 | Egypt | Cairo | Discussed the Persian Gulf crisis with President Hosni Mubarak. | |
November 23, 1990 | Switzerland | Geneva | Discussed the Persian Gulf crisis with Syrian President Hafez al-Assad. | |
14 | November 26–27, 1990 | Mexico | Monterrey, Agualeguas |
State visit. met with President Carlos Salinas de Gortari. |
15 | December 3–4, 1990 | Brazil | Brasília | Met with President Fernando Collor de Mello. Addressed a Joint Session of the Brazilian Congress. |
December 4–5, 1990 | Uruguay | Montevideo | Met with President Luis Alberto Lacalle. Addressed a Joint Session of the Uruguayan Congress. | |
December 5–6, 1990 | Argentina | Buenos Aires | Met with President Carlos Menem. Addressed a Joint Session of the Argentinean Congress. | |
December 6–7, 1990 | Chile | Santiago | Met with President Patricio Aylwin. Addressed a Joint Session of the Chilean Congress. | |
December 7–8, 1990 | Venezuela | Caracas | Met with President Carlos Andres Perez. | |
16 | March 13–14, 1991 | Canada | Ottawa | Met with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. Signed an Air Quality Agreement. |
17 | March 14, 1991 | Martinique | Fort-de-France | Discussed the Middle East peace process with President François Mitterrand. |
March 14–16, 1991 | Bermuda | Hamilton | Discussed the Middle East peace process with Prime Minister John Major. | |
18 | July 9, 1991 | Canada | Toronto | Informal Meeting with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. |
19 | July 14, 1991 | France | Rambouillet | Discussed further sanctions against Iraq with President François Mitterrand. |
July 14–18, 1991 | United Kingdom | London | Attended the 17th G7 summit. Also met with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. | |
July 18–20, 1991 | Greece | Athens, Souda Bay |
Met with Prime Minister Konstantinos Mitsotakis. Addressed U.S. and Greek military personnel. | |
July 20–21, 1991 | Turkey | Ankara, Istanbul |
Met with President Turgut Ozal. | |
20 | July 29 – August 1, 1991 | Soviet Union | Moscow Kiev |
Attended the U.S.-Soviet Summit Meeting. Signed 1st Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. Addressed the Ukrainian Parliament. |
21 | October 29–30, 1991 | Spain | Madrid | Met with Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez Marquez and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. Attended the opening session of the Middle East Peace Conference. |
22 | November 6–8, 1991 | Italy | Rome | Attended the NATO Summit Meeting. |
November 8, 1991 | Vatican City | Apostolic Palace | Audience with Pope John Paul II. | |
November 8–9, 1991 | Netherlands | The Hague | Attended the European Community Summit Meeting. | |
23 | December 3, 1991 – January 3, 1992 |
Australia | Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne |
Met with Prime Minister Paul Keating and senior Australian officials. Addressed the Australian Parliament. |
January 3–5, 1992 | Singapore | Singapore | Met with President Wee Kim Wee and Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. Attended a meeting of the ASEAN Business Council. | |
January 5–7, 1992 | South Korea | Seoul | Met with President Roh Tae-woo and senior South Korean officials. Signed a science and technology agreement. Addressed the South Korean National Assembly. Visited U.S. military personnel. | |
January 7–10, 1992 | Japan | Kyoto, Kashihara, Tokyo |
Met with Emperor Akihito, Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa and senior Japanese officials. | |
24 | June 11, 1992 | Panama | Panama City | Met with President Guillermo Endara. Delivered public addresses. |
June 12–13, 1992 | Brazil | Rio de Janeiro | Attended the Earth Summit Meeting. | |
25 | July 5, 1992 | Poland | Warsaw | Met with President Lech Walesa. Attended a memorial service for former Prime Minister Ignacy Jan Paderewski. |
July 5–8, 1992 | Germany | Munich | Attended the 18th G7 summit. Also met with Russian President Boris Yeltsin. | |
July 8–10, 1992 | Finland | Helsinki | Attended the CSCE Summit Meeting. | |
26 | December 31, 1992 | Saudi Arabia | Riyadh | Met with King Fahd. |
December 31, 1992 – January 2, 1993 |
Somalia | Mogadishu, Baidoa, Baledogle |
Visited international relief workers and U.S. military personnel. | |
January 2–3, 1993 | Russia | Moscow | Signed the START II Treaty. | |
January 3–5, 1993 | France | Paris | Discussed the Bosnian crisis with President François Mitterrand. |
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton made 54 international trips to 70 different countries (in addition to visiting the West Bank and Gaza) during his presidency.[47] He made 24 trips to continental Europe, 17 to Asia, two to Africa and to Australia. His others were to nations in the Americas.
Dates | Country | Locations | Details | |
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1 | April 3–4, 1993 | Canada | Vancouver | Attended Summit Meeting with Russian President Boris Yeltsin. Also met with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. |
2 | July 6–10, 1993 | Japan | Tokyo | Attended the 19th G7 summit. Met with Russian President Boris Yeltsin. |
July 10–11, 1993 | South Korea | Seoul | Met with President Kim Young-sam. Addressed the South Korean National Assembly. Visited U.S. military personnel. | |
3 | January 9–11, 1994 | Belgium | Brussels | Attended the NATO Summit Meeting. Met with King Albert II and Prime Minister Jean-Luc Dehaene. |
January 11–12, 1994 | Czech Republic | Prague | Met with the Presidents and Prime Ministers of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. | |
January 12, 1994 | Ukraine | Kiev | Met with President Leonid Kravchuk. | |
January 12–15, 1994 | Russia | Moscow | Met with President Boris Yeltsin and senior Russian officials. Signed nuclear disarmament agreement with Ukraine. | |
January 15, 1994 | Belarus | Minsk | Met with Chairman Stanislav Shushkevich. | |
January 15–16, 1994 | Switzerland | Geneva | Met with Syrian President Hafez al-Assad. | |
4 | June 2–4, 1994 | Italy | Rome, Nettuno |
Met with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro. Visited U.S. Military Cemetery. |
June 2, 1994 | Vatican City | Apostolic Palace | Audience with Pope John Paul II. | |
June 4–5, 1994 | United Kingdom | Cambridge, London, Portsmouth |
Visited U.S. Military Cemetery. Met with Prime Minister John Major. Attended state dinner with Queen Elizabeth II and heads of state and government of Canada, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Australia, New Zealand, Norway and Belgium. Attended D-Day commemorative ceremonies. | |
June 6–8, 1994 | France | Colleville, Paris |
Attended the 50th anniversary of D-Day memorial ceremonies. Met with President François Mitterrand and senior French officials. Addressed the French National Assembly. | |
June 8, 1994 | United Kingdom | Oxford | Received honorary degree from Oxford University. | |
5 | July 6, 1994 | Latvia | Riga | Met with the Presidents of the Baltic states. |
July 6–7, 1994 | Poland | Warsaw | Addressed the Polish Parliament. Attended ceremonies commemorating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. | |
July 7–10, 1994 | Italy | Naples | Attended the 20th G7 summit. Met with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and Russian President Boris Yeltsin. | |
July 10–12, 1994 | Germany | Bonn, Ludwigshafen, Berlin |
Met with Chancellor Helmut Kohl and German political leaders. Delivered a public address at the Brandenburg Gate. Attended deactivation ceremony for the Berlin Brigade. | |
6 | October 25–26, 1994 | Egypt | Cairo | Met with President Hosni Mubarak and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat. |
October 26–27, 1994 | Jordan | Aqaba, Wadi Arava, Amman |
Attended the signing of the Israel-Jordan peace agreement. Addressed the Jordanian Parliament. | |
October 27, 1994 | Syria | Damascus | Met with President Hafez al-Assad. | |
October 27–28, 1994 | Israel | Jerusalem | Met with senior Israeli officials. Addressed the Knesset. | |
October 28, 1994 | Kuwait | Kuwait City | Met with Emir Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah. Addressed U.S. military personnel. | |
October 28, 1994 | Saudi Arabia | King Khalid Military City | Met with King Fahd. | |
7 | November 12–13, 1994 | Philippines | Manila, Corregidor Island |
State visit. Met with President Fidel V. Ramos. Visited World War II battlegrounds of Corregidor Island. |
November 13–16, 1994 | Indonesia | Jakarta, Bogor |
State visit. Attended the APEC Summit Meeting. | |
8 | December 5, 1994 | Hungary | Budapest | Attended CSCE Summit Meeting. |
9 | February 23–24, 1995 | Canada | Ottawa | State visit. Met with Governor General Roméo LeBlanc and Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. Addressed Parliament. |
10 | March 31, 1995 | Haiti | Port-au-Prince | Attended transition ceremony for United Nations Mission in Haiti. |
11 | May 9–11, 1995 | Russia | Moscow | Summit meeting. Attended the 50th anniversary of VE Day ceremonies. |
May 11–12, 1995 | Ukraine | Kiev | State visit. Met with President Leonid Kuchma. | |
12 | June 15–16, 1995 | Canada | Halifax | Attended the 21st G7 summit. Met with Russian President Boris Yeltsin. |
13 | November 5–6, 1995 | Israel | Jerusalem | Attended the funeral of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. |
14 | November 28 – December 1, 1995 |
United Kingdom | London, Belfast, Derry |
State visit. Met with Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister John Major. Addressed Parliament. Delivered several public addresses in Northern Ireland. |
December 1–2, 1995 | Ireland | Dublin | Met with President Mary Robinson and Prime Minister John Bruton. | |
December 2, 1995 | Germany | Baumholder | Addressed U.S. military personnel. Met with Chancellor Helmut Kohl. | |
December 2–3, 1995 | Spain | Madrid | Attended the European Union Summit Meeting. | |
15 | December 14, 1995 | France | Paris | Attended the signing of the Bosnian peace treaty. |
16 | January 13, 1996 | Italy | Aviano Air Base | Met with U.S. military personnel. |
January 13, 1996 | Hungary | Taszár | Met with U.S. military personnel. | |
January 13, 1996 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Tuzla | Met with President Alija Izetbegovic. Addressed U.S. military personnel. | |
January 13, 1996 | Croatia | Zagreb | Met with President Franjo Tudjman. | |
17 | March 13, 1996 | Egypt | Sharm el-Sheikh | Attended the Summit of the Peacemakers. |
March 13–14, 1996 | Israel | Jerusalem, Tel Aviv |
Discussed cooperation against terrorism with senior Israeli officials. | |
18 | April 15–16, 1996 | South Korea | Cheju Island | Met with President Kim Young-sam. Proposed four-nation peace talks. |
April 16–18, 1996 | Japan | Tokyo | State visit. Issued joint statement on U.S.-Japanese security relations. Addressed the Diet and U.S. Navy personnel. | |
April 18–21, 1996 | Russia | Saint Petersburg, Moscow |
Attended the G-7 summit on nuclear safety. Summit Meeting with President Boris Yeltsin. | |
19 | June 27–29, 1996 | France | Lyon, Pérouges, Paris |
Attended the 22nd G7 summit. Met with Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin and UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali. |
20 | November 19–23, 1996 | Australia | Sydney, Canberra, Port Douglas |
State visit. Addressed joint meeting of Parliament. Visited the Great Barrier Reef. |
November 24–25, 1996 | Philippines | Manila, Subic |
Attended the APEC Summit Meeting. | |
November 25–26, 1996 | Thailand | Bangkok | State visit. | |
21 | March 20–21, 1997 | Finland | Helsinki | Summit meeting with Russian President Boris Yeltsin. Also met with President Martti Ahtisaari. |
22 | May 5–7, 1997 | Mexico | Mexico City, Tlaxcala |
State visit. Met with President Ernesto Zedillo. |
May 7–9, 1997 | Costa Rica | San José | Attended the Summit Meeting of Presidents of the Central American Republics. Met President José María Figueres and travelled to Braulio Carrillo National Park. | |
May 9–11, 1997 | Barbados | Bridgetown | Attended the U.S.-Caribbean Community summit meeting. Signed the Partnership for Prosperity and Security in the Caribbean pact. | |
23 | May 26–27, 1997 | France | Paris | Attended the NATO Summit Meeting and the signing of the NATO-Russia Founding Act. |
May 27–28, 1997 | Netherlands | The Hague, Rotterdam |
Attended the U.S.-EU Summit Meeting. Attended the 50th anniversary of the Marshall Plan. | |
May 28–29, 1997 | United Kingdom | London | Met with Prime Minister Tony Blair. Attended a Cabinet meeting. | |
24 | July 4–10, 1997 | Spain | Palma de Majorca, Madrid, Granada |
Vacationed with King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sophia. Attended the NATO Summit Meeting in Madrid. |
July 10–11, 1997 | Poland | Warsaw | Met with President Aleksander Kwaśniewski and former President Lech Wałęsa. | |
July 11, 1997 | Romania | Bucharest | Met with President Emil Constantinescu and Romanian political leaders. | |
July 11–12, 1997 | Denmark | Copenhagen | Met with Queen Queen Margrethe II and Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen. | |
25 | October 12–13, 1997 | Venezuela | Caracas | Met with President Rafael Caldera. |
October 13–15, 1997 | Brazil | Brasília, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro |
Met with President Fernando Henrique Cardoso. Delivered several public addresses. | |
October 15–18, 1997 | Argentina | Buenos Aires, San Carlos de Bariloche |
Met with President Carlos Menem. Delivered several public addresses. | |
26 | November 23–25, 1997 | Canada | Vancouver | Attended the APEC Summit Meeting. |
27 | December 22, 1997 | Italy | Aviano Air Base | Stopped en route to and from Bosnia-Herzegovina. |
December 22, 1997 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Sarajevo, Tuzla |
Met with the Bosnian Collective Presidency and Bosnian Serb President Biljana Plavšić. Visited U.S. military personnel. | |
28 | March 23, 1998 | Ghana | Accra | Met with President Jerry Rawlings. Visited a Peace Corps project. |
March 23–25, 1998 | Uganda | Kampala, Kisowera, Mukono Town, Wanyange, Entebbe |
Met with President Yoweri Museveni and the Presidents of Ethiopia, Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya and the Congo. | |
March 25, 1998 | Rwanda | Kigali | Met with President Pasteur Bizimungu. Delivered a public address. | |
March 25–29, 1998 | South Africa | Cape Town, Johannesburg |
Met with President Nelson Mandela. Addressed joint session of Parliament. | |
March 29–31, 1998 | Botswana | Gaborone, Kasame | Met with President Quett Masire. Visited Chobe National Park. | |
March 31 – April 2, 1998 | Senegal | Dakar, Thiès, Gorée Island |
Met with President Abdou Diouf. Visited Senegalese peacekeeping troops. Delivered several public addresses. | |
29 | April 16–19, 1998 | Chile | Santiago | State visit. Attended the 2nd Summit of the Americas. |
30 | May 12–14, 1998 | Germany | Berlin, Potsdam, Frankfurt, Eisenach |
Met with Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Attended 50th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift. |
May 14–18, 1998 | United Kingdom | Birmingham, Weston-under-Lizard, London |
Attended the 24th G8 summit and the US-EU summit meetings. | |
May 18, 1998 | Switzerland | Geneva | Attended the WTO meeting commemorating the 50th anniversary of GATT. | |
31 | June 24 – July 3, 1998 | China | Xi'an, Beijing, Shanghai, Guilin, Hong Kong |
State visit. Met with President Jiang Zemin. Visited the Forbidden City and the Great Wall of China. Delivered a speech at Peking University. |
32 | September 1–3, 1998 | Russia | Moscow | Summit meeting with President Boris Yeltsin. |
September 3, 1998 | United Kingdom | Belfast, Armagh, Omagh |
Met with Prime Minister Tony Blair and Northern Irish political leaders. Addressed the Northern Ireland Assembly. | |
September 3–5, 1998 | Ireland | Dublin, Adare, Limerick, Ballybunion |
Met with Prime Minister Bertie Ahern. Delivered several public addresses and played golf. | |
33 | November 19–20, 1998 | Japan | Tokyo | Met with Emperor Akihito and Prime Minister Keizō Obuchi. Addressed American Chamber of Commerce. |
November 20–22, 1998 | South Korea | Seoul, Osan |
Met with President Kim Dae-jung. Addressed U.S. military personnel. | |
34 | December 12–15, 1998 | Israel | Jerusalem, Masada |
Met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and senior Israeli officials. |
December 14–15, 1998 | Palestinian National Authority | Gaza, Bethlehem, Erez |
Addressed Palestine National Council. Attended a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Chairman Yasser Arafat. | |
35 | February 8, 1999 | Jordan | Amman | Attended the funeral of King Hussein. |
36 | February 14–15, 1999 | Mexico | Mérida | State visit. Met with President Ernesto Zedillo. |
37 | March 8, 1999 | Nicaragua | Managua, Posoltega, El Porvenir |
Discussed reconstruction aid with President Arnoldo Aleman. |
March 8–9, 1999 | Honduras | Soto Cano Air Base, Tegucigalpa | Discussed reconstruction aid with President Carlos Roberto Flores. Addressed U.S. military personnel. | |
March 10, 1999 | El Salvador | San Salvador | Addressed Legislative Assembly. | |
March 10–11, 1999 | Guatemala | Guatemala City, Antigua |
Attended the Central American Summit. | |
38 | May 4, 1999 | Belgium | Brussels | Discussed the Kosovo War with NATO officials. |
May 4–6, 1999 | Germany | Frankfurt, Ramstein Air Base, Spangdahlem Air Base, Bonn, Ingelheim |
Addressed U.S. military personnel; met with Chancellor Gerhard Schröder; met with Kosovo War refugees. | |
39 | June 16, 1999 | Switzerland | Geneva | Addressed ILO Conference. Met with President Ruth Dreifuss. |
June 16–17, 1999 | France | Paris | Discussed peacekeeping in Kosovo with President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Lionel Jospin. | |
June 17–21, 1999 | Germany | Cologne, Bonn |
Attended the 25th G8 summit. | |
June 21–22, 1999 | Slovenia | Ljubljana | Met with President Milan Kučan, Prime Minister Janez Drnovšek and Montenegrin President Milo Đukanović. | |
June 22, 1999 | Macedonia | Skopje | Met with President Kiro Gligorov. Addressed Kosovar refugees and NATO military personnel. | |
June 22, 1999 | Italy | Aviano Air Base | Addressed U.S. military personnel. | |
40 | July 25, 1999 | Morocco | Rabat | Attended the funeral of King Hassan II. Met with Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. |
41 | July 29–30, 1999 | Italy | Aviano Air Base | Stopped en route to Sarajevo. |
July 30, 1999 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Sarajevo | Attended Stability Pact Leaders Conference. | |
42 | September 11–15, 1999 | New Zealand | Auckland, Queenstown, Christchurch |
Attended the APEC Summit Meeting. State Visit. |
43 | October 7–8, 1999 | Canada | Ottawa, Mont-Tremblant |
Met with Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and Quebec Premier Lucien Bouchard. Attended Federalism Conference at Mont Tremblant. Dedicated new U.S. Embassy building. |
44 | November 1–2, 1999 | Norway | Oslo | State visit. Held discussions with Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik[48] Attended commemorative ceremony for former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Met with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin;[47] also met with Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat and Prime Minister Ehud Barak of Israel.[49] |
45 | November 15–19, 1999 | Turkey | Ankara, İzmit, Ephesus, Istanbul |
State visit. Attended Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Summit meeting. |
November 19–20, 1999 | Greece | Athens | State visit. Met with Prime Minister Konstantinos Simitis. | |
November 20–21, 1999 | Italy | Florence | Attended conference on Progressive Governance for the 21st Century. | |
November 21–23, 1999 | Bulgaria | Sofia | Met with President Petar Stoyanov and Prime Minister Ivan Kostov. | |
November 23, 1999 | Kosovo | Pristina, Uroševac, Camp Bondsteel |
Met with Kosovar Transitional Council. Addressed the Albanian community and U.S. military personnel. | |
46 | January 29, 2000 | Switzerland | Davos | Addressed the World Economic Forum. |
47 | March 18, 2000 | Italy | Aviano Air Base | Stopped en route to India. |
March 19–25, 2000 | India | New Delhi, Agra, Jaipur, Hyderabad, Mumbai |
Met with President Kocheril Raman Narayanan. Signed Joint Statement on Energy and the Environment. Addressed the Indian Parliament. | |
March 20, 2000 | Bangladesh | Dhaka | Met with President Shahabuddin Ahmed and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. | |
March 25, 2000 | Pakistan | Islamabad | Met with President Muhammad Rafiq Tarar and General Pervez Musharraf. Delivered radio address. | |
March 25, 2000 | Oman | Muscat | Met with Sultan Qaboos bin Said. | |
March 25, 2000 | Switzerland | Geneva | Met with Syrian President Hafez al-Assad. | |
48 | May 30 – June 1, 2000 | Portugal | Lisbon | Attended the U.S.-EU Summit Meeting. Met with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. |
June 1–3, 2000 | Germany | Berlin, Aachen |
Met with President Johannes Rau and Chancellor Schröder; received Charlemagne Prize, and attended a Third Way Conference. | |
June 3–5, 2000 | Russia | Moscow | Summit meeting with President Vladimir Putin. Addressed the Duma. | |
June 5, 2000 | Ukraine | Kiev | Met with President Leonid Kuchma. | |
49 | June 8, 2000 | Japan | Tokyo | Attended the funeral of former Prime Minister Keizō Obuchi. |
50 | July 21–23, 2000 | Japan | Nago | Attended the 26th G8 summit. |
51 | August 26–28, 2000 | Nigeria | Abuja, Ushafa | Met with President Olusegun Obasanjo. Addressed the National Assembly. |
August 28–29, 2000 | Tanzania | Arusha | Met with former South African President Nelson Mandela to promote a peace agreement for Burundi. Met with President Benjamin Mkapa. | |
August 29, 2000 | Egypt | Cairo | Briefed President Hosni Mubarak on the Middle East Peace Process. | |
August 30, 2000 | Colombia | Cartagena | Met with President Andrés Pastrana Arango. | |
52 | October 16–17, 2000 | Egypt | Sharm el-Sheikh | Attended the Israeli-Palestinian Summit Meeting. |
53 | November 14–16, 2000 | Brunei | Bandar Seri Begawan | Attended the APEC Summit Meeting. |
November 16–19, 2000 | Vietnam | Hanoi, Tien Chau, Ho Chi Minh City |
Met with President Tran Duc Luong. Delivered several public addresses. | |
54 | December 12, 2000 | Ireland | Dublin, Dundalk |
Met with Prime minister Bertie Ahern. Delivered several public addresses. |
December 12–14, 2000 | United Kingdom | Belfast, London, Coventry |
Met with Prime Minister Tony Blair and Northern Irish political leaders in Belfast. Met with Queen Elizabeth II and delivered a speech at the University of Warwick. |
George W. Bush
George W. Bush made 48 international trips to 72 different countries (in addition to visiting the West Bank) during his presidency.[50] He visited six continents: Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America. On one of his two trips to Sub-Saharan Africa, he visited three of the poorest countries in the world: Liberia, Rwanda, and Benin. He also made a secret trip to Iraq on Thanksgiving Day 2003 to dine with the troops. His father had made a similar visit to the U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia in 1990. On November 15–20, 2006, Bush made the third round the world presidential flight (after Johnson and Nixon) when he went to Russia, Singapore, Vietnam, and Indonesia.
Dates | Country | Locations | Details | |
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1 | February 16, 2001 | Mexico | San Cristóbal | Met with President Vincente Fox; discussed trade, energy, migration, educational opportunities, and the battle against the illegal drug trade.[51] |
2 | April 20–22, 2001 | Canada | Quebec City | Attended the 3rd Summit of the Americas. |
3 | June 12–13, 2001 | Spain | Madrid | Met with King Juan Carlos I and Prime Minister José María Aznar. |
June 13–14, 2001 | Belgium | Brussels | Attended the NATO summit meeting. Met with King Albert II and Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt. | |
June 14–15, 2001 | Sweden | Gothenburg | Attended the U.S.-EU Summit Meeting. Met with King Carl XVI Gustaf and Prime Minister Göran Persson. | |
June 15–16, 2001 | Poland | Warsaw | State visit. Met with President Aleksander Kwaśniewski. | |
June 16, 2001 | Slovenia | Kranj | Met with Prime Minister Janez Drnovšek and Russian President Vladimir Putin. | |
4 | July 18–20, 2001 | United Kingdom | London, Chequers, Halton, Brize Norton |
Met with Prime Minister Tony Blair and Queen Elizabeth II. |
July 20–24, 2001 | Italy | Genoa, Castel Gandolfo, Rome |
Attended the 27th G8 summit. Met with Pope John Paul II. Also met with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi. | |
July 24, 2001 | Kosovo | Camp Bondsteel | Addressed U.S. military personnel. | |
5 | October 18–21, 2001 | China | Shanghai | Attended APEC Summit Meeting. |
6 | February 16–19, 2002 | Japan | Tokyo | Met with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and Emperor Akihito. Addressed the Diet. |
February 19–21, 2002 | South Korea | Seoul, Dorasan, Osan |
Met with President Kim Dae-jung. Visited the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Addressed U.S. military personnel. | |
February 21–22, 2002 | China | Beijing | Met with President Jiang Zemin and Premier Zhu Rongji. | |
7 | March 21–22, 2002 | Mexico | Monterrey | Attended the International Conference on Financing for Development. Met with President Vicente Fox. |
March 23–24, 2002 | Peru | Lima | Met with the presidents of Peru, Colombia, and Bolivia, and with the Vice President of Ecuador. | |
March 24, 2002 | El Salvador | San Salvador | Attended the Summit Meeting of Presidents of the Central American Republics. | |
8 | May 22–23, 2002 | Germany | Berlin | Met with Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. Addressed the Bundestag. |
May 23–26, 2002 | Russia | Moscow, St. Petersburg |
Summit meeting with President Vladimir Putin. Signed Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty. | |
May 26–27, 2002 | France | Paris, Sainte-Mère-Église, Colleville |
Met with President Jacques Chirac. Delivered a Memorial Day address in Normandy. | |
May 27–28, 2002 | Italy | Rome | Met with President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Attended the NATO summit meeting and inaugurated the NATO-Russia Council. | |
May 28, 2002 | Vatican City | Apostolic Palace | Audience with Pope John Paul II. | |
9 | June 25–27, 2002 | Canada | Kananaskis | Attended the 28th G8 summit. |
10 | October 26–27, 2002 | Mexico | Los Cabos | Attended the APEC summit meeting. |
11 | November 19–22, 2002 | Czech Republic | Prague | Attended the NATO and EAPC summit meetings. |
November 22, 2002 | Russia | St. Petersburg | Met with President Vladimir Putin. | |
November 22–23, 2002 | Lithuania | Vilnius | Met with the presidents of the Baltic states. | |
November 23, 2002 | Romania | Bucharest | Met with President Ion Iliescu. | |
12 | March 16, 2003 | Portugal | Terceira Island | Discussed the Iraq crisis with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar and Portuguese Prime Minister José Manuel Barroso. |
13 | April 7–8, 2003 | United Kingdom | Belfast, Hillsborough |
Met with Prime Minister Tony Blair to discuss the reconstruction of Iraq. Also met with Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and Northern Irish political leaders. |
14 | May 31, 2003 | Poland | Kraków, Oświęcim |
Met with President Aleksander Kwaśniewski and Prime Minister Leszek Miller. Visited Nazi-German Auschwitz concentration camp. |
May 31 – June 1, 2003 | Russia | St. Petersburg | Met with President Vladimir Putin. Attended ceremonies commemorating the city's 300th anniversary. | |
June 1–2, 2003 | France | Evian-les-Bains | Attended the 29th G8 summit. Met with Chinese President Hu Jintao. | |
June 2–3, 2003 | Egypt | Sharm el-Sheikh | Attended the "Red Sea Summit" with the leaders of Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, and with Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas. | |
June 4, 2003 | Jordan | Aqaba | Attended meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas. Met with King Abdullah II. | |
June 4–5, 2003 | Qatar | Doha | Met with Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani. Visited U.S. Central Command headquarters and addressed U.S. military personnel. | |
15 | July 8, 2003 | Senegal | Dakar, Goree Island |
Met with President Abdoulaye Wade. |
July 8–11, 2003 | South Africa | Pretoria | Met with President Thabo Mbeki. | |
July 10, 2003 | Botswana | Gaborone | Met with President Festus Mogae. Toured Mokolodi Nature Reserve. | |
July 11, 2003 | Uganda | Kampala | Met with President Yoweri Museveni. | |
July 11–12, 2003 | Nigeria | Abuja | Met with President Olusegun Obasanjo. | |
16 | October 17–18, 2003 | Japan | Tokyo | Met with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. |
October 18–19, 2003 | Philippines | Manila | Addressed a joint session of the Philippine Congress and met with President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. | |
October 18–21, 2003 | Thailand | Bangkok | Attended the APEC Summit Meeting. | |
October 21–22, 2003 | Singapore | Singapore | Met with Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. | |
October 22, 2003 | Indonesia | Denpasar | Met with President Megawati Sukarnoputri and Muslim religious leaders. | |
October 22, 2003 | Australia | Canberra | Met with Prime Minister John Howard. Addressed joint meeting of Parliament. | |
17 | November 18–21, 2003 | United Kingdom | London, Sedgefield |
State visit. Met with Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair. |
November 27, 2003 | Iraq | Baghdad | Met with members of the Coalition Provisional Authority and the Iraqi Governing Council. Addressed U.S. military personnel. | |
18 | January 12–13, 2004 | Mexico | Monterrey | Attended the Special Summit of the Americas. |
19 | June 4–5, 2004 | Italy | Rome | Met with President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. |
June 4, 2004 | Vatican City | Apostolic Palace | Met with Pope John Paul II. | |
June 5–6, 2004 | France | Paris, Colleville, Caen, Arromanches |
Met with President Jacques Chirac. Attended the 60th anniversary of D-Day ceremonies. | |
20 | June 25–26, 2004 | Ireland | Shannon, Dromoland Castle |
Attended the U.S.-EU summit meeting. Met with Taoiseach Bertie Ahern. |
June 26–29, 2004 | Turkey | Ankara, Istanbul |
Met with President Ahmet Necdet Sezer and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Attended the NATO Summit meeting. | |
21 | November 19–22, 2004 | Chile | Santiago | Attended the APEC summit meeting. |
November 22, 2004 | Colombia | Cartagena | Met with President Álvaro Uribe. | |
22 | November 30 – December 1, 2004 | Canada | Ottawa, Gatineau, Halifax |
Met with Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Myra Freeman and Prime Minister Paul Martin. |
23 | February 20–23, 2005 | Belgium | Brussels | Attended the NATO and EU summit meetings. |
February 23, 2005 | Germany | Mainz, Wiesbaden |
Met with Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. Visited U.S. military personnel. | |
February 23–24, 2005 | Slovakia | Bratislava | Met with Prime Minister Mikuláš Dzurinda and Russian President Vladimir Putin. | |
24 | April 6–8, 2005 | Vatican City | St. Peter's Basilica | Attended the funeral of Pope John Paul II. |
April 6–8, 2005 | Italy | Rome | Met with President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. | |
25 | May 6–7, 2005 | Latvia | Riga | Met with the Presidents of the Baltic states. |
May 7–8, 2005 | Netherlands | Maastricht, Valkenburg, Margraten |
Met with Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende. Delivered address at the Netherlands American Cemetery, marking the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe.[52] | |
May 8–9, 2005 | Russia | Moscow | Met with President Vladimir Putin. Attended the 60th anniversary of VE Day ceremonies. | |
May 9–10, 2005 | Georgia | Tbilisi | Met with President Mikheil Saakashvili. | |
26 | July 5–6, 2005 | Denmark | Kastrup, Fredensborg, Copenhagen |
Met with Queen Margrethe II and Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen. |
July 6–8, 2005 | United Kingdom | Gleneagles | Attended the 31st G8 summit. | |
27 | November 3–5, 2005 | Argentina | Mar del Plata | Attended the 4th Summit of the Americas. |
November 5–6, 2005 | Brazil | Brasília | Met with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. | |
November 6–7, 2005 | Panama | Panama City | Met with President Martín Torrijos. | |
28 | November 15–16, 2005 | Japan | Kyoto | Met with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. |
November 16–20, 2005 | South Korea | Pusan, Gyeongju, Osan |
Attended the APEC Summit. Met with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Addressed U.S. military personnel. | |
November 20–21, 2005 | China | Beijing | Met with President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao. | |
November 21, 2005 | Mongolia | Ulan Bator | Met with President Nambaryn Enkhbayar and Prime Minister Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj. | |
29 | February 28, 2006 | Ireland | Shannon | Met with U.S. Marines who were en route to Iraq. |
March 1, 2006 | Afghanistan | Bagram, Kabul |
Met with President Hamid Karzai. Dedicated new U.S. Embassy. Addressed U.S. military personnel. | |
March 1–3, 2006 | India | New Delhi, Hyderabad |
Met with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Signed U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Agreement. | |
March 3–4, 2006 | Pakistan | Islamabad | Met with President Pervez Musharraf. | |
30 | March 30–31, 2006 | Mexico | Cancun, Chichen-Itza |
Attended the 2nd North American Leaders' Summit with President Vincente Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper; visited the Chichen-Itza archaeological site. |
31 | June 13, 2006 | Iraq | Baghdad | Met with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Addressed U.S. military personnel. |
32 | June 20–21, 2006 | Austria | Vienna | Attended the U.S.-EU summit meeting. |
June 21–22, 2006 | Hungary | Budapest | Met with President László Sólyom and Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány. Attended the 50th anniversary of the Hungarian Uprising. | |
33 | July 12–14, 2006 | Germany | Stralsund, Trinwillershagen |
Met with Chancellor Angela Merkel. |
July 14–17, 2006 | Russia | St. Petersburg | Attended the 32nd G8 summit. Met with Chinese President Hu Jintao, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. | |
34 | November 15, 2006 | Russia | Moscow | Met with President Vladimir Putin. |
November 16–17, 2006 | Singapore | Singapore | Met with Acting President Pillay and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Addressed National University of Singapore. | |
November 17–20, 2006 | Vietnam | Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City |
Attended the APEC Summit meeting. | |
November 20, 2006 | Indonesia | Jakarta, Bogor |
Met with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. | |
35 | November 27–28, 2006 | Estonia | Tallinn | Met with President Toomas Hendrik Ilves. |
November 28–29, 2006 | Latvia | Riga | Attended the NATO Summit meeting. | |
November 29–30, 2006 | Jordan | Amman | Met with King Abdullah II and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. | |
36 | March 8–9, 2007 | Brazil | São Paulo | Met with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. |
March 9–11, 2007 | Uruguay | Montevideo | Met with President Tabaré Vázquez. | |
March 11, 2007 | Colombia | Bogota | Met with President Álvaro Uribe. | |
March 11–12, 2007 | Guatemala | Guatemala City, Santa Cruz Balanyá, Iximche |
Informal visit; met with President Óscar Berger. Visited Iximche archaeological site. | |
March 12–14, 2007 | Mexico | Mérida, Uxmal |
Met with President Felipe Calderón; visited the Maya ruin complex of Uxmal. | |
37 | June 4–5, 2007 | Czech Republic | Prague | Met with President Václav Klaus and Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek. Addressed Conference on Democracy and Security. |
June 5–8. 2007 | Germany | Heiligendamm | Attended the 33rd G8 summit. Met with Chinese President Hu Jintao. | |
June 8, 2007 | Poland | Gdańsk, Jurata |
Met with President Lech Kaczyński. | |
June 8–10, 2007 | Italy | Rome | Met with President Giorgio Napolitano and Prime Minister Romano Prodi. | |
June 9, 2007 | Vatican City | Apostolic Palace | Audience with Pope Benedict XVI. | |
June 10, 2007 | Albania | Tirana | Met with President Alfred Moisiu and Prime Minister Sali Berisha. | |
June 10–11, 2007 | Bulgaria | Sofia | Met with President Georgi Parvanov and Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev. | |
38 | August 20–21, 2007 | Canada | Montebello | Attended North American Leaders' Summit with Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderon. |
39 | September 3, 2007 | Iraq | Al Asad Airbase | Met with Gen. David Petraeus, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, senior U.S. officials, Iraqi political leaders. Addressed U.S military personnel. |
September 3–8, 2007 | Australia | Sydney | Attended the APEC summit meeting. | |
40 | January 9–11, 2008 | Israel | Tel Aviv, Jerusalem |
Met with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and President Shimon Peres. Visited Yad Vashem. |
January 10, 2008 | Palestinian National Authority | Ramallah, Bethlehem |
Met with President Mahmoud Abbas. Visited the Church of the Nativity. | |
January 11–12, 2008 | Kuwait | Kuwait City, Camp Arifjan |
Attended Roundtable on Democracy and Development. Met with Gen. David Petraeus and United States Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker. Addressed U.S. military personnel. | |
January 12–13, 2008 | Bahrain | Manama | Met with King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa. Addressed U.S. military personnel. | |
January 13–14, 2008 | United Arab Emirates | Abu Dhabi, Dubai | Met with President Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. | |
January 14–16, 2008 | Saudi Arabia | Riyadh, Al-Janadriyah |
Met with King Abdullah. | |
January 16, 2008 | Egypt | Sharm el-Sheikh | Met with President Hosni Mubarak. | |
41 | February 16, 2008 | Benin | Porto Novo | Met with President Yayi Boni. |
February 16–19, 2008 | Tanzania | Dar es Salaam, Arusha |
Met with President Jakaya Kikwete. Signed Millenimum Challenge agreement. | |
February 19, 2008 | Rwanda | Kigali | Met with President Paul Kagame. Dedicated new U.S. Embassy. | |
February 19–21, 2008 | Ghana | Accra | Met with President John Kufuor. | |
February 21, 2008 | Liberia | Monrovia | Met with President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. | |
42 | April 1, 2008 | Ukraine | Kiev | Met with President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. |
April 2–4, 2008 | Romania | Bucharest | Attended the NATO Summit Meeting. | |
April 4–5, 2008 | Croatia | Zagreb | Met with President Stjepan Mesić. | |
April 5–6, 2008 | Russia | Sochi | Met with President Vladimir Putin and President-elect Dmitry Medvedev. | |
43 | May 14–16, 2008 | Israel | Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Masada |
Met with President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Addressed the Knesset. Attended Israel's 60th anniversary. Visited the Masada fortification site. |
May 16–17, 2008 | Saudi Arabia | Riyadh, al-Janadriyah |
Met with King Abdullah. | |
May 17–18, 2008 | Egypt | Sharm el-Sheikh | Met with President Hosni Mubarak, King Abdullah II of Jordan, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani. Addressed the World Economic Forum. | |
44 | June 9–10, 2008 | Slovenia | Ljubljana | Met with President Danilo Türk and Prime Minister Janez Janša. Attended the EU-US Summit Meeting. |
June 10–11, 2008 | Germany | Meseberg | Met with Chancellor Angela Merkel. | |
June 11–13, 2008 | Italy | Rome | Met with President Giorgio Napolitano and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. | |
June 13, 2008 | Vatican City | Apostolic Palace | Met with Pope Benedict XVI. | |
June 13–15, 2008 | France | Paris | Met with President Nicolas Sarkozy. Addressed the OECD. Attended wreath-laying ceremonies at the Suresnes American Cemetery and Memorial and Mémorial de la France combattante. | |
June 15–16, 2008 | United Kingdom | London, Belfast |
Met with Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle. Met with Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Quartet Representative Tony Blair. In Belfast, met with First Minister Peter Robertson and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness. | |
45 | July 6–9, 2008 | Japan | Tōyako | Attended the 34th G8 summit. Met with Tanzanian President Kikwete, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Chinese President Hu Jintao and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak. |
46 | August 5–6, 2008 | South Korea | Seoul | Met with President Lee Myung-bak. Addressed U.S. military personnel. |
August 6–7, 2008 | Thailand | Bangkok | Met with Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej. | |
August 7–11, 2008 | China | Beijing | Attended the opening ceremonies of the Summer Olympics. Met with President Hu Jintao and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. | |
47 | November 21–23, 2008 | Peru | Lima | Attended the APEC summit. |
48 | December 14, 2008 | Iraq | Baghdad | Met with President Jalal Talabani and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Signed Strategic Framework and Security Agreements. Visited U.S. military personnel. |
December 14–15, 2008 | Afghanistan | Kabul | Met with President Hamid Karzai. Visited U.S. military personnel. |
Barack Obama
As of September 2024, Barack Obama has made 52 international trips to 58 different countries, plus the Palestinian West Bank, during his presidency. He set the record as the most-traveled president for any first year in office: he took the most trips, visited the most countries, and spent the most days abroad. Obama made ten trips to 21 countries (four countries were visited twice) and was out of the U.S. a total of 37 days. The previous record holder, George H. W. Bush, took seven trips to 17 countries (one country was visited twice) over 28 days during the course of his first year in office. Obama was the first sitting president to visit Cambodia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Laos, and Myanmar. In December 2010, he made an unannounced trip to Afghanistan, where he visited with U.S. troops. The surprise trip came as the U.S. and NATO withdraw most of their forces from that country ahead of a year-end deadline. In March 2016, he made a historic trip to Cuba to underscore the thaw in Cuba–United States relations following a 54-year rift.
Dates | Country | Locations | Details | |
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1 | February 19, 2009 | Canada | Ottawa | Met with Governor General Michaëlle Jean and Prime Minister Stephen Harper.[53] |
2 | March 31 – April 3, 2009 | United Kingdom | London | Attended the G-20 summit. Met with Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Gordon Brown. |
April 3–4, 2009 | France Germany |
Strasbourg, Baden-Baden, Kehl |
Attended the NATO Summit Meeting. | |
April 4–5, 2009 | Czech Republic | Prague | Attended the U.S.-EU Summit Meeting. Met with President Václav Klaus. Delivered public speech on nuclear disarmament in Hradčany Square .[54] | |
April 5–7. 2009 | Turkey | Ankara, Istanbul |
Met with President Abdullah Gül and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Delivered a speech to the Turkish Parliament. | |
April 7–8, 2009 | Iraq | Baghdad | Met with President Jalal Talabani and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Visited with U.S. troops. | |
3 | April 16–17, 2009 | Mexico | Mexico City | Met with President Felipe Calderón. |
April 17–18. 2009 | Trinidad and Tobago | Port of Spain | Attended the 5th Summit of the Americas. | |
4 | June 3–4. 2009 | Saudi Arabia | Riyadh | Met with King Abdullah. |
June 4, 2009 | Egypt | Cairo | Met with President Hosni Mubarak. Toured the Giza Pyramids. Delivered a speech at Cairo University. | |
June 4–5, 2009 | Germany | Dresden, Weimar, Landstuhl |
Met with Chancellor Angela Merkel. Visited the Buchenwald concentration camp and visited wounded U.S. military personnel. | |
June 5–7, 2009 | France | Paris, Caen, Normandy |
Met with President Nicolas Sarkozy and dedicated the new visitor center at the U.S. Military Cemetery in Normandy. | |
5 | July 6–8, 2009 | Russia | Moscow | Met with President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Also spoke to business leaders and met with dissidents and opposition leaders.[55] |
July 8–10, 2009 | Italy | L'Aquila, Rome |
Attended the 35th G8 summit. Also met with the leaders of Angola, Algeria, Australia, Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Mexico, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, and various international organizations. | |
July 10, 2009 | Vatican City | Apostolic Palace | Audience with Pope Benedict XVI. | |
July 10–11, 2009 | Ghana | Accra, Cape Coast |
Met with President John Atta Mills. Delivered a speech to the Ghanaian Parliament. Toured a former departing point of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, the Cape Coast Castle. | |
6 | August 9–10, 2009 | Mexico | Guadalajara | Attended annual North American Leaders' Summit with President Felipe Calderón and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. |
7 | October 2, 2009 | Denmark | Copenhagen | Met with Queen Margrethe II and Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen. Addressed a session of the International Olympic Committee in support of the Chicago bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics. |
8 | November 13–14, 2009 | Japan | Tokyo | Met with Emperor Akihito and Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama. |
November 14–15, 2009 | Singapore | Singapore | Attended the APEC summit. | |
November 15–18, 2009 | China | Shanghai, Beijing |
Held a town hall meeting with Shanghai students. Met with President Hu Jintao, NPC Chairman Wu Bangguo and Premier Wen Jiabao. Visited the Great Wall of China. | |
November 18–19, 2009 | South Korea | Seoul, Osan | Met with President Lee Myung-bak. Visited with U.S. troops at Osan Air Base. | |
9 | December 9–11, 2009 | Norway | Oslo | Met with King Harald V and Queen Sonja. Received the Nobel Peace Prize. |
10 | December 17–19, 2009 | Denmark | Copenhagen | Attended the United Nations Climate Change Conference. |
11 | March 27–28, 2010 | Afghanistan | Bagram, Kabul |
Met with President Hamid Karzai. Addressed U.S. military personnel. |
12 | April 8, 2010 | Czech Republic | Prague | Signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty with Russia. Also met with the Presidents of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, and Romania; and with the Prime Ministers of Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia. |
13 | June 25–27, 2010 | Canada | Toronto, Huntsville | Attended the 36th G8 summit and the G-20 summit meetings. |
14 | November 6–9, 2010 | India | Mumbai, New Delhi |
Participated in the US-India Business Council and Entrepreneurship Summit in Mumbai. Held a town hall meeting with Mumbai students. Met with President Pratibha Patil and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Addressed the Indian Parliament. Visited the Humayun's Tomb and the Raj Ghat. |
November 9–10, 2010 | Indonesia | Jakarta | Met with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Delivered a speech at the University of Indonesia. Visited the Istiqlal Mosque. | |
November 10–12, 2010 | South Korea | Seoul | Attended the G-20 summit. Met with President Lee Myung-bak. | |
November 12–14, 2010 | Japan | Yokohama, Kamakura | Attended the APEC summit. | |
15 | November 19–20, 2010 | Portugal | Lisbon | Attended the NATO summit and the U.S.-EU Summit Meeting. Met with President Aníbal Cavaco Silva and Prime Minister José Sócrates. |
16 | December 3, 2010 | Afghanistan | Bagram | Met with the leaders of the U.S. military and diplomatic missions and visited U.S. military personnel. |
17 | March 19–21, 2011 | Brazil | Brasília, Rio de Janeiro |
Met with President Dilma Rousseff. Visited the Cidade de Deus favela and the Christ the Redeemer statue. |
March 21–22, 2011 | Chile | Santiago | Met with President Sebastián Piñera. | |
March 22–23, 2011 | El Salvador | San Salvador | Met with President Mauricio Funes. | |
18 | May 23, 2011 | Ireland | Dublin, Moneygall |
Met with President Mary McAleese and Prime Minister Enda Kenny. Visited ancestral home. |
May 23–26, 2011 | United Kingdom | London | Met with Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister David Cameron | |
May 26–27, 2011 | France | Deauville, Paris |
Attended the 37th G8 summit. | |
May 27–28, 2011 | Poland | Warsaw | Met with President Bronisław Komorowski and Prime Minister Donald Tusk. Laid wreath at the Warsaw Ghetto Memorial. Visited the memorial to the victims of the Smolensk plane crash.[56] | |
19 | November 3–4, 2011 | France | Cannes | Attended the G-20 Summit Meeting. |
20 | November 16–17, 2011 | Australia | Canberra, Darwin |
Met with Prime Minister Julia Gillard. Announced a new military cooperation agreement. |
November 17–19, 2011 | Indonesia | Bali | Attended the 19th ASEAN summit and 6th East Asia Summit meetings. | |
21 | March 25–27, 2012 | South Korea | Seoul | Attended the Nuclear Security Summit. Met with President Lee Myung-bak. Visited the Korean Demilitarized Zone. |
22 | April 13–15, 2012 | Colombia | Cartagena | Attended the 6th Summit of the Americas.[53] Announced, along with President Juan Manuel Santos, that the United States–Colombia Free Trade Agreement will take effect May 15, 2012.[57] |
23 | May 1–2, 2012 | Afghanistan | Kabul | Met with President Karzai and addressed U.S. military personnel. Signed a long-term strategic partnership agreement between Afghanistan and United States. Addressed the nation from there regarding the responsible end of the Afghanistan war. |
24 | June 17–19, 2012 | Mexico | Cabo San Lucas | Attended the G-20 Summit Meeting. |
25 | November 18–19, 2012 | Thailand | Bangkok | Met with King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. Visited the Wat Pho Monastery. |
November 19, 2012 | Myanmar (Burma) | Yangon | Met with President Thein Sein and National League for Democracy Leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and representatives of Burmese civil society. | |
November 19–20, 2012 | Cambodia | Phnom Penh | Attended 21st ASEAN summit, 7th East Asia Summit, and Trans-Pacific Partnership meetings. Met with Prime Minister Hun Sen. | |
26 | March 20–22, 2013 | Israel | Tel Aviv, Jerusalem |
Met with President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Visited the Shrine of the Book and Yad Vashem, and spoke to students at the International Convention Center. |
March 21–22, 2013 | Palestinian National Authority (West Bank) |
Ramallah, Al-Bireh, Bethlehem |
Met with President Mahmoud Abbas. Visited the Church of the Nativity. | |
March 22–23, 2013 | Jordan | Amman, Petra |
Met with King Abdullah II. | |
27 | May 2–3, 2013 | Mexico | Mexico City | Met with President Enrique Peña Nieto. |
May 3–4, 2013 | Costa Rica | San José | Met with President Laura Chinchilla and leaders of the Central American Integration System. | |
28 | June 17–18, 2013 | United Kingdom | Enniskillen, Belfast |
Attended the 39th G8 summit. |
June 18–19, 2013 | Germany | Berlin | Met with President Joachim Gauck and Chancellor Angela Merkel. Delivered a speech in front of the Brandenburg Gate.[58] | |
29 | June 26–28, 2013 | Senegal | Dakar | Met with President Macky Sall.[53] |
June 28 – July 1, 2013 | South Africa | Johannesburg, Pretoria, Soweto, Cape Town |
Met with President Jacob Zuma and with members of the Mandela family. Delivered a speech on trade and investment, development, democracy and security partnerships. Visited Robben Island.[53][59] | |
July 1–2, 2013 | Tanzania | Dar es Salaam | Met with President Jakaya Kikwete. Laid a wreath at the memorial to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombing.[53] Participated in trade and investment discussions; accompanied by business leaders.[59] | |
July 2, 2013 | Senegal | Dakar | Stopped during return to Washington D.C..[53] | |
30 | September 4–5, 2013 | Sweden | Stockholm | Met with King Carl XVI Gustaf and Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt. Also met with leaders of the Nordic countries. Attended an event honoring Raoul Wallenberg at the Great Synagogue of Stockholm. |
September 5–6, 2013 | Russia | St. Petersburg | Attended the G-20 summit. | |
31 | December 7–10, 2013 | South Africa | Johannesburg | Attended the memorial service for former President Nelson Mandela. |
32 | February 14, 2014 | Mexico | Toluca | Attended the 9th North American Leaders' Summit with President Enrique Peña Nieto and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.[60] |
33 | March 24–25, 2014 | Netherlands | Amsterdam, Hague |
Attended the Nuclear Security Summit. Also attended the G-7 summit on the crisis in Ukraine and the annexation of the Crimea. Met with Prime Minister Mark Rutte. Also met with King Willem-Alexander at the Royal Palace of Amsterdam. |
March 26–27, 2014 | Belgium | Waregem, Brussels |
Attended the U.S.-EU Summit Meeting. Laid wreath and toured the Flanders Field American Cemetery and Memorial with King Philippe and Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo. Delivered a speech at the Centre for Fine Arts (BOZAR). | |
March 27, 2014 | Vatican City | Apostolic Palace | Audience with Pope Francis.[61] | |
March 27, 2014 | Italy | Rome | Met with President Giorgio Napolitano and Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. Visited the Roman Colosseum. | |
March 28, 2014 | Saudi Arabia | Riyadh | Met with King Abdullah. | |
34 | April 23–25, 2014 | Japan | Tokyo | Met with Emperor Akihito and Prime Minister Shinzō Abe. |
April 25–26, 2014 | South Korea | Seoul | Met with President Park Geun-hye. Visited with U.S. troops at Yongsan Garrison. | |
April 26–28, 2014 | Malaysia | Kuala Lumpur | Met with Prime Minister Najib Razak. Delivered a speech at the University of Malaya. | |
April 28–29, 2014 | Philippines | Manila, Taguig |
Met with President Benigno Aquino III. Visited with U.S. and Philippine troops at Fort Bonifacio. Laid wreath at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial. | |
35 | May 25–26, 2014 | Afghanistan | Bagram | Visited with U.S. troops. |
36 | June 3–4, 2014 | Poland | Warsaw | Met with President Bronisław Komorowski and Prime Minister Donald Tusk. Attended ceremonies marking the 25th anniversary of democracy in Poland. |
June 4–5, 2014 | Belgium | Brussels | Attended the 40th G7 summit. | |
June 5–6, 2014 | France | Paris, Colleville, Ouistreham |
Met with President François Hollande. Attended the 70th anniversary of D-Day memorial ceremonies. | |
37 | September 3–4, 2014 | Estonia | Tallinn | Met with the presidents of the Baltic states. Visited with U.S. and Estonian members of the military. Delivered a speech at Tallinn Airport with Prime Minister Taavi Rõivas. |
September 4–5, 2014 | United Kingdom | Newport | Attended the NATO summit. | |
38 | November 10–12, 2014 | China | Beijing | Attended the APEC summit. Met with President Xi Jinping, Premier Li Keqiang and NPC Chairman Zhang Dejiang.[62] |
November 12–15, 2014 | Myanmar (Burma) | Naypyidaw, Yangon |
Attended the 25th ASEAN Summit and the 9th East Asia Summit. Met with President Thein Sein and National League for Democracy Leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Delivered a speech at the University of Yangon. | |
November 15–16, 2014 | Australia | Brisbane | Attended the G-20 summit.[63] | |
39 | January 25–27, 2015 | India | New Delhi | Met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Participated in the Indian Republic Day celebration. Addressed an event organized by the US-India Business Council. |
January 27, 2015 | Saudi Arabia | Riyadh | Met with the newly appointed King Salman. Also paid respects to the late King Abdullah. | |
40 | April 9–10, 2015 | Jamaica | Kingston | Met with Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller. Visited the Bob Marley Museum. Attended a town hall meeting at the University of the West Indies. Laid wreath at the National Heroes Park.[64][65] |
April 10–11, 2015 | Panama | Panama City | Attended the 7th Summit of the Americas.[66] | |
41 | June 7–8, 2015 | Germany | Schloss Elmau | Attended the 41st G7 summit.[67] Met with Chancellor Angela Merkel for a traditional Frühschoppen breakfast with the village locals in Krün.[68] |
42 | July 24–26, 2015 | Kenya | Nairobi | Attended the 2015 Global Entrepreneurship Summit. Also met with President Uhuru Kenyatta.[69] |
July 26–28, 2015 | Ethiopia | Addis Ababa | Met with the government of Ethiopia. Addressed the African Union.[70][71] | |
43 | November 14–17, 2015 | Turkey | Antalya | Attended the G-20 summit. |
November 17–20, 2015 | Philippines | Manila | Attended the APEC summit. | |
November 20–22, 2015 | Malaysia | Kuala Lumpur | Attended the 26th ASEAN Summit and the 10th East Asia Summit. | |
44 | November 29 – December 1, 2015 |
France | Paris | Attended the United Nations Climate Change Conference. |
45 | March 20–22, 2016 | Cuba | Havana | Met with President Raúl Castro. Laid a wreath at the José Martí Memorial. Addressed Cuban civil society organizations at the Gran Teatro de La Habana. Toured Old Havana and visited the Havana Cathedral.[72] Attended an exhibition baseball game between the Cuba national baseball team and Tampa Bay Rays.[73] |
March 23–24, 2016 | Argentina | Buenos Aires, Bariloche |
Met with President Mauricio Macri. Laid a wreath at the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral.[74] | |
46 | April 20–21, 2016 | Saudi Arabia | Riyadh | Met with King Salman. Attended a meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council.[75] |
April 21–24, 2016 | United Kingdom | London, Windsor, Watford |
Met with Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister David Cameron. | |
April 24–25, 2016 | Germany | Hanover | Met with Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President François Hollande, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, and British Prime Minister David Cameron. Toured Hannover Messe. | |
47 | May 22–25, 2016 | Vietnam | Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City |
Met with President Trần Đại Quang and National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân. Held talks with Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc and Communist Party General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng. Visited the Jade Emperor Pagoda. |
May 25–27, 2016 | Japan | Shima, Hiroshima |
Attended the 42nd G7 summit. Visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. | |
48 | June 29, 2016 | Canada | Ottawa | State visit. Met with Governor General David Johnston and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and addressed Parliament. Attended the North American Leaders' Summit with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto. |
49 | July 8–9, 2016 | Poland | Warsaw | Attended the 27th NATO summit meeting. Also met with President Andrzej Duda, European Council President (and former Polish Prime Minister) Donald Tusk, and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker to discuss counterterrorism, and the Syrian refugee crisis.[76] |
July 9–10, 2016 | Spain | Madrid, Rota | Met with King Felipe VI and Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy. Also met with American military personnel stationed at Naval Station Rota. | |
50 | September 3–5, 2016 | China | Hangzhou | Attended the G-20 summit. |
September 5–8, 2016 | Laos | Vientiane | Attended the 27th ASEAN Summit and the 11th East Asia Summit. | |
51 | September 29–30, 2016 | Israel | Jerusalem | Attended a memorial service for former President and Prime Minister Shimon Peres. |
52 | November 15–16, 2016 | Greece | Athens | State Visit. Met with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and President Prokopis Pavlopoulos. Toured Acropolis and Acropolis Museum. |
November 16–18, 2016 | Germany | Berlin | Met with Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President François Hollande, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, and British Prime Minister Theresa May. | |
November 18–20, 2016 | Peru | Lima | Attended the APEC summit. |
See also
- Foreign policy of the United States
- Foreign relations of the United States
- International relations
- List of heads of state and government visits to the United States
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