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This is a list of heads of state and heads of government who have visited North Macedonia.
Country | Name | Title | Date |
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Germany | Roman Herzog | President | September 9–10, 1996 |
France | Jacques Chirac | President | February 28, 1999 |
United Kingdom | Tony Blair | Prime Minister | May 3, 1999 |
Netherlands | Wim Kok | Prime Minister | May 25–26, 1999 |
USA | Bill Clinton | President | June 22, 1999 |
Germany | Gerhard Schröder | Prime Minister/Chancellor | July 23, 1999 |
Belgium | Albert II of Belgium | King | October 11, 2000 [1] |
Denmark | Per Stig Møller | Prime Minister | April 1, 2002 |
Austria | Thomas Klestil | President | April 11, 2002 |
Belgium | Guy Verhofstadt | Prime Minister | May 6, 2002 |
Poland | Aleksander Kwaśniewski | President | October 2–3, 2002 |
France | Jean-Pierre Raffarin | Prime Minister | June 8, 2003 |
Hungary | Ferenc Mádl | President | August 27–28, 2003 |
Czech Republic | Vladimír Špidla | Prime Minister | March 16–17, 2004 |
Moldova | Vladimir Voronin | President | February 21–22, 2005 |
Croatia | Stipe Mesic | President | October 23–24, 2006 |
Bulgaria | Georgi Parvanov | President | November 4, 2006 |
Hungary | Ferenc Gyurcsány | Prime Minister | November 23, 2006 |
Germany | Horst Köhler | President | April 17–18, 2008 |
Austria | Heinz Fischer | Prime Minister | July 12–13, 2007 |
Bulgaria | Sergei Stanishev | Prime Minister | December 14–15, 2008 |
Slovenia | Danilo Türk | President | February 17–18, 2009 |
Estonia | Toomas Hendrik Ilves | President | October 13–14, 2009 |
Belgium | Yves Leterme | Prime Minister | March 8, 2010 |
Romania | Traian Băsescu | President | May 27, 2010 |
Czech Republic | Vaclav Klaus | President | June 21–22, 2010 |
Latvia | Valdis Zatlers | President | July 14–15, 2010 |
Montenegro | Milo Đukanović | Prime Minister | October 22, 2010 |
Hungary | Viktor Orbán | Prime Minister | May 12, 2011 |
Turkey | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan | Prime Minister | September 29, 2011 |
Qatar | Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani | Emir | October 17–18, 2011 |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Zeljko Komsic | President of the presidency | October 24–25, 2011 |
Serbia | Boris Tadic | President | December 16–17, 2011 |
Montenegro | Filip Vujanovic | President | March 16–17, 2012 |
Czech Republic | Petr Nečas | Prime Minister | April 16–17, 2012 |
Albania | Bamir Topi | President | April 19–20, 2012 |
United Nations | Ban Ki-moon | general secretary | July 24, 2012 |
Albania | Bujar Nishani | President | September 14, 2012 |
Serbia | Tomislav Nikolic | President | October 26–28, 2012 |
Bulgaria | Boyko Borisov | Prime Minister | February 16, 2013 |
Slovenia | Borut Pahor | President | July 16–17, 2013 |
Poland | Bronisław Komorowski | President | September 10–11, 2013 |
Albania | Edi Rama | Prime Minister | September 10–11, 2013 |
Hungary | Viktor Orbán | Prime Minister | December 5, 2013 |
Croatia | Zoran Milanović | Prime Minister | September 9, 2014 |
Vietnam | Nguyễn Thị Doan | Vice President | November 2, 2014 |
Turkey | Ahmet Davutoğlu | Prime Minister | December 22–23, 2014 |
Holy See | Pietro Parolin | Secretary of State | March 18–19, 2016 |
Czech Republic | Milos Zeman | President | June 9–10, 2016 |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Mladen Ivanic | President of the Presidency | April 19–20, 2017 [2] |
Bulgaria | Boyko Borisov | Prime Minister | August 1–2, 2017 |
Montenegro | Duško Marković | Prime Minister | October 16, 2017 [3] |
Albania | Ilir Meta | President | November 20–21, 2017 [4] |
Bulgaria | Rumen Radev | President | February 16–17, 2018 [5] |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Denis Zvizdić | Chairman of the Council of Ministers | March 12, 2018 [6] |
Slovenia | Miro Cerar | Prime Minister | April 3–4, 2018 [7] |
Croatia | Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović | President | April 26–27, 2018 [8] |
United Kingdom | Theresa May | Prime Minister | May 17, 2018 [9] |
Romania | Viorica Dăncilă | Prime Minister | July 27, 2018 [10] |
Austria | Sebastian Kurz | Chancellor | September 7, 2018 [11] |
Germany | Angela Merkel | Chancellor | September 8, 2018 [12] |
Malta | Joseph Muscat | Prime Minister | November 14, 2018 [13] |
Holy See | Francis | Pope | May 7, 2019 [14] |
Serbia | Ana Brnabic | Prime Minister | August 26, 2019 [15] |
Montenegro | Milo Đukanović | President | October 2–03, 2019 [16] |
Kosovo | Albin Kurti | Prime Minister | November 4, 2019 [17] |
Slovenia | Borut Pahor | President | September 25, 2020 [18] |
Kosovo | Avdullah Hoti | Prime Minister | October 23, 2020 [19] |
Georgia | Salome Zurabishvili | President | May 10, 2021 [20] |
Czech Republic | Lubomír Metnar | Minister of Defense | May 11–12, 2021 [21] |
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