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List of international trips made by Yasser Arafat

This is a list of international trips made by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Arafat was permanently based in Kuwait until the end of 1964. He traveled extensively to garner international support for the Palestinian cause.

1960s edit

Date Country Purpose Ref.
1962   Algeria
July 1968   Soviet Union

1970s edit

Date Country Purpose Ref.
1 October 1970   Egypt Attended the funeral of Gamal Abdel Nasser
1971   East Germany
11 November 1974   United States New York [1]
1 November 1976   Morocco Rabat
17 February 1979   Iran Tehran [2]
28 March 1979   Iraq Baghdad He attended an Arab League meeting to discuss the peace treaty between Cairo and Tel Aviv
8 July 1979   Austria Vienna Met with Chancellor Bruno Kreisky and German Chancellor Willy Brandt [3]
September 1979   Spain [4]

1980s edit

Date Country Purpose Ref.
28–29 March 1980   India [5]
8 May 1980   Yugoslavia Attended the funeral of Josip Broz Tito
7–10 October 1981   China [6]
11–12 October 1981   North Korea [7]
13 October 1981   Japan [8]
15–18 December 1981   Greece [9]
May 1982   India
24 May 1982   Pakistan [10]
2 September 1982   Greece [11]
16 September 1982   Italy Met President Sandro Pertini [12]
28 December 1982   Austria Met Chancellor Bruno Kreisky [13]
19 February 1983   Algeria
14 April 1983   Sweden Met Prime Minister Olof Palme [14]
1983   Bulgaria
1983   Czechoslovakia
1983   Hungary
21 April 1983   Romania Bucharest Met President Nicolae Ceaușescu [15]
26 June 1983   Czechoslovakia Prague [16]
1 September 1983    Switzerland Geneva Addressed the U.N. conference on Palestine [17]
23 December 1983   Egypt Held talks with President Hosni Mubarak in the wake of the Battle of Tripoli [18]
December 1983   North Yemen
31 December 1983   Tunisia Convene the Palestinian National Council
6 May 1984   China Held talks with high-ranking officials [19]
7 May 1984   North Korea [20]
29 July 1984   Iraq [21]
14 July 1986   Sudan [22]
20 January 1988   Greece Met Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou [23]
26 April 1988   Syria Met President Hafez al-Assad [24]
1 September 1988   Libya Attend celebrations marking the 19th anniversary of the coup
13 September 1988   France Strasbourg Addressed the European Parliament [25]
17 September 1988   Libya
6 December 1988   Sweden [26]
10 April 1989   Poland Held talks with senior officials [27]
3–4 May 1989   France Paris Met President François Mitterrand [28]
25–26 June 1989   North Korea
28 June 1989   Vietnam [29]
1–4 October 1989   Japan [30]
4–5 October 1989   China [31]

1990s edit

Date Location Purpose Ref.
28–30 May 1990   Iraq Baghdad Emergency Arab Summit Conference
5 August 1990   Egypt Cairo Emergency Arab Summit Conference in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait [32]
10 August 1990   Egypt Cairo Emergency Arab Summit Conference in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait
December 1991   Kazakhstan
8 April 1992   Libya [33]
June 1993   North Korea
7 December 1993   Germany Bonn Met Chancellor Helmut Kohl [34]
13 September 1993   United States Washington D.C. Oslo Accord signing ceremony [35]
16 December 1993   United Kingdom London Met Prime Minister John Major [36]
22 January 1994   Syria Offered condolences on the death of Bassel al-Assad
9 February 1994   Egypt Cairo
2 May 1994   Germany
23 February 1995   Saudi Arabia Mecca Met King Fahd [37]
28 May 1995   Morocco Rabat Met Foreign Minister Shimon Peres [38]
November 1995   Germany Hamburg
25–27 December 1995   Oman Muscat [39]
14 January 1996   Saudi Arabia [40]
2–3 May 1996   United States Washington D.C. Met President Bill Clinton [41]
23 May 1996   Oman Muscat [42]
3–4 June 1996   United Kingdom Met Prime Minister John Major [43]
19 June 1996   Vietnam [44]
10–13 September 1996   Japan [45]
1–2 October 1996   United States Washington D.C. Attended emergency White House summit with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu [46]
30–31 October 1996   Spain [47]
20–22 November 1997   India
1998   Netherlands Amsterdam
12 August 1998   South Africa Cape Town Met with senior officials and delivered a speech in Parliament [48]
15–23 October 1998   United States Wye River Negotiating the Wye River Memorandum [49]
April 1999   Ukraine Kyiv
April 1999   Kazakhstan
April 1999   Japan [50]
3 May 1999   Denmark
9 September 1999   Libya
October 1999   Japan [51]
15 October 1999   Vietnam [52]
November 1999   Russia Moscow

2000s edit

Date Country Purpose Ref.
13 June 2000   Syria Attended the funeral of Hafez al-Assad
11–24 July 2000   United States Camp David Summit
August 2000   China
5 August 2000   Turkey Working visit [53]
11 August 2000   Russia Moscow Met President Vladimir Putin [54]
17–18 August 2000   Japan Held talks on the outcome of Camp David [55]
10 November 2000   Canada Ottawa Met Prime Minister Jean Chrétien [56]
2 January 2001   United States Washington D.C. Met President Bill Clinton [57]
29 May 2001   Russia Moscow Met President Vladimir Putin [58]
22 July 2001   Saudi Arabia Met King Fahd [59]
July 2001   Saudi Arabia Jeddah Offered condolences on the death of Prince Fahd bin Salman Al Saud
23 August 2001   Pakistan [60]
24 ِ August 2001   China Working visit [61]
25 August 2001   Vietnam Working visit [62]
2 September 2001   Saudi Arabia Jeddah Met King Fahd and Crown Prince Abdullah [63]
9 October 2001   Bahrain Manama Met Emir Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa [64]
14 October 2001   United Kingdom London Met Prime Minister Tony Blair [65]
15 October 2001   Ireland Met with the Taoiseach Bertie Ahern [66]
5 November 2001   Belgium Brussels Met Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres [67]
25 November 2001   Egypt Met Hosni Mubarak [68]
October 2004   France Paris To receive treatment [69]

Statistics edit

Number of trips by country

References edit

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  43. ^ "Arafat meets U.K.'s John Major - UPI Archives". UPI.
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