United States presidential visits to South Asia
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Eight presidents of the United States have made presidential visits to South Asia. The first trip by a sitting president to South Asia was by Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1959. Of the eight countries in the region, only 4 of them have been visited by a sitting American president: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. The other four countries, Bhutan (which has no formal diplomatic relations with the US), the Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka, have never been visited by a sitting American president.
Table of visits
[edit]President | Dates | Countries | Locations | Key details |
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Dwight D. Eisenhower[1] | December 7–9, 1959 | ![]() |
Karachi | Informal visit. Met with President Ayub Khan. |
December 9, 1959 | ![]() |
Kabul | Informal visit. Met with King Mohammed Zahir Shah. | |
December 9–14, 1959 | ![]() |
New Delhi, Agra | Met with President Rajendra Prasad and Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Addressed Parliament. | |
Lyndon B. Johnson[2] | December 23, 1967 | ![]() |
Karachi | Met with President Ayub Khan. |
Richard Nixon[3] | July 31 – August 1, 1969 | ![]() |
New Delhi | State visit. Met with Acting President Mohammad Hidayatullah. Prime Minister is Indira Gandhi |
August 1–2, 1969 | ![]() |
Lahore | State visit. Met with President Yahya Khan. | |
Jimmy Carter[4] | January 1–3, 1978 | ![]() |
New Delhi, Daulatpur Nasirabad[5] | Met with President Neelam Sanjiva Reddy and Prime Minister Morarji Desai. Addressed Parliament of India. |
Bill Clinton[6] | March 19–25, 2000 | 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 | ![]() |
Dhaka | Met with President Shahabuddin Ahmed and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. | |
March 25, 2000 | ![]() |
Islamabad | Met with President Muhammad Rafiq Tarar and General Pervez Musharraf. Delivered radio address. | |
George W. Bush[7] | March 1, 2006 | ![]() |
Bagram, Kabul | Met with President Hamid Karzai. Dedicated new U.S. Embassy. Addressed U.S. military personnel. |
March 1–3, 2006 | ![]() |
New Delhi, Hyderabad | Met with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Signed U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Agreement. | |
March 3–4, 2006 | ![]() |
Islamabad | Met with President Pervez Musharraf. | |
December 14–15, 2008 | ![]() |
Kabul | Met with President Hamid Karzai. Visited U.S. military personnel. | |
Barack Obama[8] | March 27–28, 2010 | Bagram, Kabul | Met with President Hamid Karzai. Addressed U.S. military personnel. | |
November 6–9, 2010 | ![]() |
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. | |
December 3, 2010 | ![]() |
Bagram | Met with the leaders of the U.S. military and diplomatic missions and visited U.S. military personnel. | |
May 1–2, 2012 | 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. | ||
May 25–26, 2014 | Bagram | Visited with U.S. troops. | ||
January 25–27, 2015 | ![]() |
New Delhi | Met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Participated in the Indian Republic Day celebration, becoming the first US President to do so.[9] Addressed an event organized by the US-India Business Council | |
Donald Trump | November 28, 2019 | ![]() |
Bagram | Visited with U.S military personnel serving in Eastern Afghanistan. |
February 24–25, 2020 | ![]() |
Ahmedabad, Agra, New Delhi | Met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Attend Namaste Trump Event at Sardar Patel Stadium. Visited the Taj Mahal at Agra. | |
Joe Biden | September 8–10, 2023 | New Delhi | Attended the 2023 G20 summit. |
See also
[edit]- Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs
- Foreign policy of the United States
- South Asian foreign policy of the Barack Obama administration
References
[edit]- ^ Travels of President Dwight D. Eisenhower U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian Archived 2011-12-05 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Travels of President Lyndon B. Johnson U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian WebCitation archive
- ^ "Travels of President Richard M. Nixon". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
- ^ "Travels of President Jimmy Carter". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
- ^ Joseph, Joel (November 4, 2010). "How Daulatpur Nasirabad became Carterpuri". The Times of India. Archived from the original on May 25, 2013. Retrieved October 21, 2013.
Daulatpur Nasirabad in Gurgaon was a sleepy nondescript village on the outskirts of Delhi but it found a prominent place on the global map after Carter paid a visit to this village...This village has since then been renamed Carterpuri.
- ^ "Travels of President William J. Clinton". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
- ^ "Travels of President George W. Bush". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
- ^ "Travels of President Barack Obama". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
- ^ "Obama attends India's Republic Day". BBC News. 2015. Retrieved 10 August 2018.