List of diplomatic visits to North Macedonia

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This is a list of heads of state and heads of government who have visited North Macedonia.

CountryNameTitleDate
Germany Roman Herzog PresidentSeptember 9–10, 1996
France Jacques Chirac PresidentFebruary 28, 1999
United Kingdom Tony Blair Prime MinisterMay 3, 1999
Netherlands Wim Kok Prime MinisterMay 25–26, 1999
USA Bill Clinton PresidentJune 22, 1999
Germany Gerhard Schröder Prime Minister/ChancellorJuly 23, 1999
Belgium Albert II of Belgium KingOctober 11, 2000 [1]
Denmark Per Stig Møller Prime MinisterApril 1, 2002
Austria Thomas Klestil PresidentApril 11, 2002
Belgium Guy Verhofstadt Prime MinisterMay 6, 2002
Poland Aleksander Kwaśniewski PresidentOctober 2–3, 2002
France Jean-Pierre Raffarin Prime MinisterJune 8, 2003
Hungary Ferenc Mádl PresidentAugust 27–28, 2003
Czech Republic Vladimír Špidla Prime MinisterMarch 16–17, 2004
Moldova Vladimir Voronin PresidentFebruary 21–22, 2005
Croatia Stipe Mesic PresidentOctober 23–24, 2006
Bulgaria Georgi Parvanov PresidentNovember 4, 2006
Hungary Ferenc Gyurcsány Prime MinisterNovember 23, 2006
Germany Horst Köhler PresidentApril 17–18, 2008
Austria Heinz Fischer Prime MinisterJuly 12–13, 2007
Bulgaria Sergei Stanishev Prime MinisterDecember 14–15, 2008
Slovenia Danilo Türk PresidentFebruary 17–18, 2009
Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves PresidentOctober 13–14, 2009
Belgium Yves Leterme Prime MinisterMarch 8, 2010
Romania Traian Băsescu PresidentMay 27, 2010
Czech Republic Vaclav Klaus PresidentJune 21–22, 2010
Latvia Valdis Zatlers PresidentJuly 14–15, 2010
Montenegro Milo Đukanović Prime MinisterOctober 22, 2010
Hungary Viktor Orbán Prime MinisterMay 12, 2011
Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Prime MinisterSeptember 29, 2011
Qatar Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani EmirOctober 17–18, 2011
Bosnia and Herzegovina Zeljko Komsic President of the presidencyOctober 24–25, 2011
Serbia Boris Tadic PresidentDecember 16–17, 2011
Montenegro Filip Vujanovic PresidentMarch 16–17, 2012
Czech Republic Petr Nečas Prime MinisterApril 16–17, 2012
Albania Bamir Topi PresidentApril 19–20, 2012
United Nations Ban Ki-moon general secretaryJuly 24, 2012
Albania Bujar Nishani PresidentSeptember 14, 2012
Serbia Tomislav Nikolic PresidentOctober 26–28, 2012
Bulgaria Boyko Borisov Prime MinisterFebruary 16, 2013
Slovenia Borut Pahor PresidentJuly 16–17, 2013
Poland Bronisław Komorowski PresidentSeptember 10–11, 2013
Albania Edi Rama Prime MinisterSeptember 10–11, 2013
Hungary Viktor Orbán Prime MinisterDecember 5, 2013
Croatia Zoran Milanović Prime MinisterSeptember 9, 2014
Vietnam Nguyễn Thị Doan Vice PresidentNovember 2, 2014
Turkey Ahmet Davutoğlu Prime MinisterDecember 22–23, 2014
Holy See Pietro Parolin Secretary of StateMarch 18–19, 2016
Czech Republic Milos Zeman PresidentJune 9–10, 2016
Bosnia and Herzegovina Mladen Ivanic President of the PresidencyApril 19–20, 2017 [2]
Bulgaria Boyko Borisov Prime MinisterAugust 1–2, 2017
Montenegro Duško Marković Prime MinisterOctober 16, 2017 [3]
Albania Ilir Meta PresidentNovember 20–21, 2017 [4]
Bulgaria Rumen Radev PresidentFebruary 16–17, 2018 [5]
Bosnia and Herzegovina Denis Zvizdić Chairman of the Council of MinistersMarch 12, 2018 [6]
Slovenia Miro Cerar Prime MinisterApril 3–4, 2018 [7]
Croatia Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović PresidentApril 26–27, 2018 [8]
United Kingdom Theresa May Prime MinisterMay 17, 2018 [9]
Romania Viorica Dăncilă Prime MinisterJuly 27, 2018 [10]
Austria Sebastian Kurz ChancellorSeptember 7, 2018 [11]
Germany Angela Merkel ChancellorSeptember 8, 2018 [12]
Malta Joseph Muscat Prime MinisterNovember 14, 2018 [13]
Holy See Francis PopeMay 7, 2019 [14]
Serbia Ana Brnabic Prime MinisterAugust 26, 2019 [15]
Montenegro Milo Đukanović PresidentOctober 2–03, 2019 [16]
Kosovo Albin Kurti Prime MinisterNovember 4, 2019 [17]
Slovenia Borut Pahor PresidentSeptember 25, 2020 [18]
Kosovo Avdullah Hoti Prime MinisterOctober 23, 2020 [19]
Georgia Salome Zurabishvili PresidentMay 10, 2021 [20]
Czech RepublicLubomír MetnarMinister of DefenseMay 11–12, 2021 [21]

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