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List of international presidential trips made by Mahmoud Abbas

Mahmoud Abbas, the second Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the second President of the State of Palestine, has made international trips to countries since he assumed the presidency on 9 January 2005.

2005 edit

Country Areas visited Date(s) Notes
  Egypt Cairo 28–29 January State visit. Met with President Hosni Mubarak.[1]
  Turkey Ankara 1–2 February State visit. Met with President Ahmet Necdet Sezer, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.[2]
  Algeria Algiers 22–23 March Working Visit. Attended the Arab League Summit.[3]
  Japan Tokyo 15–17 May State visit. Met with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.[4]
  China Beijing 17–19 May State visit. Met with President Hu Jintao.[5]
  Pakistan Islamabad 19–20 May State visit. Met with President Pervez Musharraf[6][7]
  India New Delhi 20–21 May State visit. Met with President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh[8]
  United States Washington D.C. 25–27 May State visit. Met with President George W. Bush.[9]
  Mauritania Nouakchott 2–3 July [10]
  Syria Damascus 6–7 July State visit. Met with President Bashar al-Assad[11]
  Lebanon Beirut 8–10 July State visit. Met with President Émile Lahoud[12]
  Saudi Arabia Riyadh 1–2 August The funeral of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia[13]

2006 edit

Country Areas visited Date(s) Notes
  Sudan Khartoum 27–30 March Working visit. Attended the Arab League Summit.[14]
  South Africa Cape Town, Johannesburg 29 March – 1 April State visit. Met with President Thabo Mbeki[15]
  Tanzania Zanzibar 1 April State visit. Met with President Jakaya Kikwete[15]
  Morocco Casablanca 12–14 April State visit. Met with King Mohammed VI[15]
  Turkey Ankara 23–25 April State visit. Met with President Ahmet Necdet Sezer, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan[16]
  Norway Oslo 25–26 April State visit. Met with Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg[17]
  Finland Helsinki 26–27 April State visit. Met with President Tarja Halonen[18]
  France Paris 27–29 April State visit. Met with President Jacques Chirac[19]
  Jordan Amman 29 April – 1 May State visit. Met with King Abdullah II, Prime Minister Marouf al-Bakhit[15]
  Russia Sochi 14–15 May State visit. Met with President Vladimir Putin[15]
  France Strasbourg 15–17 May Working visit.[15]
  Egypt Sharm El Sheikh 19–21 May Working visit. Attended the World Economic Forum.[20]
  Tunisia Tunis 30 May – 1 June State visit. Met with President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali[21]
  Algeria Algiers 26 July Working visit. Met with Prime Minister Abdelaziz Belkhadem[22]
  Italy Rome 27 July Working visit. Met with Prime Minister Romano Prodi[22]
  Egypt Alexandria 28–29 July State visit. Met with President Hosni Mubarak[23]
  Saudi Arabia Jeddah 30 July State visit. Met with King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia[24]
  Kuwait Kuwait City 30–31 July Working visit. Met with Crown Prince Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah[25]
  Yemen Sana'a 5 August State visit. Met with President Ali Abdullah Saleh[26]
  Sudan Khartoum 6 August State visit. Met with President Omar al-Bashir[22]
  Tunisia Tunis 7–8 August State visit. Met with President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali[27]
  Libya Tripoli 9 August State visit. Met with Leader Muammar Gaddafi[22]
  Bahrain Manama 4–5 September State visit. Met with King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa[28]
  United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi 5 September State visit. Met with King Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan[22]
  United States New York City 19–22 September Working visit. Attended the Sixty-first session of the United Nations General Assembly, met Presidents of South Africa, France, the U.S., Prime Ministers of Italy, Malaysia.[22]

2007 edit

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2008 edit

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2009 edit

Country Areas visited Date(s) Notes
  Libya Tripoli 1–5 September Attending the 40th anniversary of the Libyan Revolution

2010 edit

2011 edit

Date Country Location Details
28–29 June 2011   Azerbaijan Baku [29]

2012 edit

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2014 edit

2015 edit

Date Country Location Details
10–11 February 2015   Sweden Stockholm Met with King Carl XVI Gustaf and Prime Minister Stefan Löfven and opened the Palestinian embassy[30]
12 February 2015   Belgium Brussels Working visit. Met with EU leaders
14 February 2015   Luxembourg Luxembourg City Met with Luxembourg leaders[31]
9 March 2015    Switzerland Bern Met with President Simonetta Sommaruga[32]
7 April 2015   Qatar Doha
16 May 2015   Holy See Vatican City Met with Pope Francis[33]
22 September 2015   Russia Moscow [34]
30 September 2015   USA New York
28 October 2015    Switzerland Geneva
20 December 2015   Greece Athens Met with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras[35]

2016 edit

Date Country Location Details
14–17 February 2016   Japan Tokyo Working Visit. Met with Japanese leaders[36]
21 February 2016   Jordan Amman
15 April 2016   Russia Moscow Met with President Vladimir Putin[37]
25 May 2016   South Africa Cape Town Met with President Jacob Zuma[38]
28 May 2016   Egypt Cairo Met with President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi[39]
23 June 2016   Belgium Brussels Met with European Council President Donald Tusk[40]
6–7 September 2016   Poland Warsaw [41]
14–15 September 2016   Mauritania Nouakchott
22 September 2016   USA New York [42]
24 October 2016   Turkey Ankara Met with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

2017 edit

Date Country Location Details
13 January 2017   Holy See Vatican City [43]
30 January–1 February 2017   Pakistan Islamabad
1–3 February 2017   Bangladesh Dhaka
23–25 February 2017   Lebanon Beirut [44]
27 March 2017   Belgium Brussels
29 April 2017   Egypt
30 April 2017   Jordan
3 May 2017   USA Washington D.C.
11 May 2017   Russia Moscow
15–18 May 2017   India New Delhi [45]
17 July 2017   China
27–29 August 2017   Turkey
11 November 2017   Kuwait Kuwait City [46]
10 December 2017   Egypt Cairo [47]
12 December 2017   Turkey Istanbul Attended the Sixth Extraordinary Session of the Islamic Summit[48]
19 December 2017   Saudi Arabia Riyadh [49]
22 December 2017   France Paris [50]

2018 edit

 
Mahmoud Abbas and Karin Kneissl in Brüssels, January 2018.
 
President Abbas during his visit to Chile, May 2018
Date Country Location Details
29 January 2018   Jordan Amman
20 February 2018   USA New York
7–8 May 2018   Venezuela Caracas [citation needed]
9–10 May 2018   Chile Havana
10–12 May 2018   Cuba Santiago
13 May 2018   India New Delhi
14–15 July 2018   Russia Moscow Held talks with President Vladimir Putin[51]
21–27 September 2018   USA New York Met with state leaders and addressed the 73rd session of the General Assembly
21 October 2018   Oman Muscat
2 December 2018   Italy Rome [52]

2019 edit

Date Country Location Details
March 2019   Iraq Baghdad
April 2019   Egypt Cairo
May 2019   Qatar Doha
September 2019   Norway Oslo
September 2019   USA New York Met with French President Emmanuel Macron[53]
October 2019   Saudi Arabia Riyadh Met with King Salman bin Abdulaziz[54]
October 2019   Japan Tokyo Met with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe[55]

2020 edit

Date Country Location Details
November 2020   Jordan Amman
November 2020   Egypt Cairo
December 2020   Qatar Doha

2021 edit

Date Country Location Details
July 2021   Turkey
September 2021   Egypt
October 2021   Italy
November 2021   Russia
November 2021   Qatar
December 2022   Algeria
December 2021   Tunisia

2022 edit

Date Country Location Details
9 January 2022   Egypt Cairo
27 April 2022   Jordan Amman
15 May 2022   UAE Abu Dhabi Offer condolences on the death of Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
26 June 2022   Jordan Amman
5 July 2022   Algeria Attended the commemoration of the 60th anniversary of Algeria's independence
19 July 2022   Romania Bucharest [56]
20 July 2022   France Paris Met with President Emmanuel Macron
16 August 2022   Germany Berlin Met with Chancellor Olaf Scholz
22–24 August 2022   Turkey Ankara State visit. Met with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan[57]
23 September 2022   United States New York Addressed the General Assembly
13 October 2022   Kazakhstan Astana Participated in the CICA summit
1 November 2022   Algeria Algiers Participated in the 2022 Arab League summit

2023 edit

Date Country Location Details
25 July   Turkey Ankara Meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh[58]
29 July   Egypt Cairo Meeting of the General Secretaries of the Palestinian factions and held talks with President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi[59]
13 August   Egypt Cairo Summit with President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and Abdullah II[citation needed]
23 August   Turkey Ankara Meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan[citation needed]
17–21 September   United States New York He delivered a speech before the United Nations General Assembly[60]
10–11 November   Saudi Arabia Riyadh Attended the emergency Arab-Islamic summit on the Palestinian territories[61]

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