List of international presidential trips made by Hafez al-Assad

This is a list of international presidential trips made by Hafez al-Assad, president of Syria, during his presidency between 1971 and 2000.

1970s

1971

Country Location Date Purpose Ref.
Libya Benghazi 17 April 1971 Signing of the agreement to establish the Federation of Arab Republics between Egypt, Libya and Syria. [1]

1972

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Kuwait Kuwait City 22 April 1972
Egypt Mersa Matruh 19 June 1972 Attended a meeting of the Federation of Arab Republics [2]
Soviet Union Moscow July 1972
Egypt Cairo 9 July 1972 [3]

1973

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Egypt Cairo 7 February 1973 Meeting with president Anwar Sadat and Colonel Muammar Gaddafi [4]
Egypt April 1973 [5]
Soviet Union Moscow 7 May 1973 [6]

1974

Country Location Date Purpose Ref.
Lebanon Beirut 18 January 1974 Meeting with president Suleiman Frangieh [7]
Pakistan Lahore 22–24 February 1974 Attended the Organisation of the Islamic Conference Summit
Yugoslavia Belgrade 15 August 1974 Meeting with President Josip Broz Tito [8]
Romania Bucharest 9 September 1974 Meeting with president Nicolae Ceaușescu
Korea DPR Pyongyang September 1974
Morocco Rabat 30 October 1974 Attended the 7th Arab Summit Conference [9]

1975

Country Location Date Purpose Ref.
Lebanon Beirut 7 January 1975 Meeting with president Suleiman Frangieh [10]
Saudi Arabia Riyadh 24 April 1975 Attended the Arab Summit Conference
Jordan Amman 10 June 1975 Meeting with Hussein bin Talal
Czechoslovakia Prague, Karlovy Vary 8–11 September 1975 Meeting with Gustáv Husák [11]
Soviet Union Moscow 10 October 1975 [12]
Iran Tehran December 1975
Jordan Amman 9–10 December 1975 Meeting with Hussein bin Talal

1976

Country Location Date Purpose Ref.
France Paris 17–18 June 1976 Meeting with president Valéry Giscard d'Estaing [13]
Yugoslavia Belgrade June 1976
Romania Bucharest 27 June 1976 [14]
Saudi Arabia Riyadh 16–18 October 1976 Attended a six-party summit, which included the leaders of Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, the Palestine Liberation Organization, and Kuwait to discuss the situation in Lebanon [15]
Jordan Amman 6–7 December 1976 Meeting with Hussein bin Talal [16]

1977

Country Location Date Purpose Ref.
Sudan Khartoum 27 February 1977 Attended trilateral summit with Sudanese president Gaafar Nimeiry and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat [1]
Soviet Union Moscow 19 April 1977 Meeting with General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev [17]
 Switzerland Geneva 9 May 1977 Meeting with U.S. president Jimmy Carter [18]
Libya Tripoli 2 December 1977 Attended a summit with the participation of the leaders of Algeria, Iraq, Libya, the PLO and South Yemen to discuss Sadat's initiative [19]
Saudi Arabia Riyadh 9 December 1977 Meeting with Crown Prince Fahd [20]
United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi 12 December 1977 Meeting with Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan [21]

1978

Country Location Date Purpose Ref.
Soviet Union Moscow 20–22 February 1978
India New Delhi 18 April 1978 Meeting with Prime Minister Indira Gandhi [22]
West Germany Bonn 12 September 1978
East Germany 1 October 1978
Iraq Baghdad 25–27 October 1978 Working visit [23]
Iraq Baghdad 2 November 1978 Attended the Arab Summit Conference [23]
Soviet Union Moscow 6 October 1978
Hungary Budapest 29 November 1978

1979

Country Location Date Purpose Ref.
Iraq Baghdad 16–17 June 1979 Meeting with president Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr [24]
Algeria Algiers 3 July 1979 Meeting with president Chadli Benjedid [25]
Soviet Union Moscow 15–18 October 1979

1980s

1980

Country Location Date Purpose Ref.
Yugoslavia Belgrade 4 May 1980 Attended the state funeral of Josip Broz Tito
Libya Tripoli Held unification talks with Muammar Gaddafi
Soviet Union Moscow 8–10 October 1980 Meeting with General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev [12]

1981

Country Location Date Purpose Ref.
Saudi Arabia Mecca & Taif 25–29 January 1981 Attended the Organisation of the Islamic Conference Summit

1982

Country Location Date Purpose Ref.
Saudi Arabia Taif 5 July 1982 Meeting with King Fahd [26]

1983

Country Location Date Purpose Ref.
India New Delhi 1983
Saudi Arabia Jeddah 9 May 1983 Meeting with King Fahd [27]

1985

Country Location Date Purpose Ref.
Soviet Union Moscow 19 June 1985 Meeting with Chairman Mikhail Gorbachev [28]

1986

Country Location Date Purpose Ref.
Jordan Amman 5 May 1986 Meeting with Hussein bin Talal [29]
Greece Athens 26–28 May 1986 State visit [30]

1987

Country Location Date Purpose Ref.
Kuwait Kuwait City 26–29 January 1987 Attended the Organisation of the Islamic Conference Summit [31]
Soviet Union Moscow 27–29 April 1987 Meeting with Chairman Mikhail Gorbachev [32]
Bulgaria Sofia October 1987 Meeting with Todor Zhivkov [33]

1990s

1990

Country Location Date Purpose Ref.
Egypt Cairo 14–16 July 1990 Meeting with president Hosni Mubarak [34]
Egypt Cairo 10 August 1990 Attended the Arab Summit Conference on the Iraqi-Kuwaiti crisis
Iran Tehran 26 September 1990 [35]

1992

Country Location Date Purpose Ref.
Kuwait Kuwait City 20 April 1992 Meeting with Emir Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah [36]

1994

Country Location Date Purpose Ref.
Egypt Cairo 4–5 April 1994 Meeting with president Hosni Mubarak [37]

1997

Country Location Date Purpose Ref.
Iran Tehran 1 August 1997 State visit
Iran Tehran 9–11 December 1997 Attended the Organisation of the Islamic Conference Summit [38]

1998

Country Location Date Purpose Ref.
France Paris 18 July 1998 Meeting with president Jacques Chirac [39]

1999

Country Location Date Purpose Ref.
Jordan Amman February Attended the funeral of Hussein bin Talal [40]
Russia Moscow 7 July 1999 Meeting with president Boris Yeltsin [41]

2000s

2000

Country Location Date Purpose Ref.
 Switzerland Geneva 26 March 2000 Meeting with US president Bill Clinton [42]

See also

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