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

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]
Ba'athist 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

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]

2009

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

2011

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

2015

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

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

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

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

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

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

2021

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

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

Date	Country	Location	Details
19 May	Saudi Arabia	Jeddah	Arab League Summit
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 [61]

2024

Date	Country	Location	Details
27–29 April	Saudi Arabia	Riyadh	Attended a World Economic Forum meeting and met with the Crown prince
16–17 May	Bahrain	Manama	Arab League summit
13 August	Russia	Moscow	Meeting with President Vladimir Putin
14–15 August	Turkey	Ankara	Meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and addressed the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
26 August	Saudi Arabia	Riyadh	Met with the Crown prince [62]
17–18 September	Spain	Madrid	[63]
26 September	United States	New York
22–24 October	Russia	Kazan	Attended the 16th BRICS summit
3–4 November	Egypt	Cairo	Attend the World Urban Forum [64]
10–12 November	Saudi Arabia	Riyadh	Arab-Islamic summit

2025

Date	Country	Location	Details
18 April	Syria	Damascus
8–9 May	Russia	Moscow	Attended the 2025 Moscow Victory Day Parade
16–17 May	Iraq	Baghdad	2025 Arab League summit
21–22 May	Lebanon	Beirut	State visit

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