List of international prime ministerial trips made by David Cameron

Prime Minister David Cameron, with his wife Samantha Cameron, March 2012.

This is the list of international prime ministerial trips made by David Cameron, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 11 May 2010 until his resignation on 13 July 2016. David Cameron made 148 trips to 62 countries (in addition to visiting the Occupied Palestinian Territories) during his premiership.

Summary

The number of visits per country where Cameron travelled are:

• One visit to Algeria, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, Grenada, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Liberia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Myanmar, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Sri Lanka and Vietnam
• Two visits to Australia, Canada, China, Indonesia, Japan, Jordan, Latvia, Libya, Malaysia, Malta, Pakistan, Portugal, Singapore, South Africa, Spain and Sweden
• Three visits to the Czech Republic, India, the Netherlands, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates
• Five visits to Italy and Poland
• Six visits to Switzerland
• Nine visits to Afghanistan
• Ten visits to the United States
• Twelve visits to Germany
• Eighteen visits to France
• Fifty visits to Belgium

World map highlighting the 62 countries visited by David Cameron during his premiership,

  United Kingdom

  One visit

  Two visits

  Three visits

  Four visits

  Seven or more visits

2010

#	Country	Location	Date	Details	Image
1	France	Paris	20 May	Cameron met with President Nicolas Sarkozy. [1] [2]
	Germany	Berlin	21 May	Cameron met with Chancellor Angela Merkel.
2	United Arab Emirates	Abu Dhabi	9–12 June	Cameron met with President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
	Afghanistan	Camp Bastion		Cameron met with President Hamid Karzai and visited troops. [3]
3	Belgium	Brussels	16–17 June	Cameron attended the European Council summit.
4	Canada	Huntsville, Toronto	24–27 June	Cameron attended the G8 summit in Huntsville and the G20 summit in Toronto.
5	United States	Washington, D.C., New York City	19–22 July	Cameron met with President Barack Obama, the Mayor of New York and Inward investors. [4]
6	Turkey	Ankara	26–27 July	Cameron met with President Abdullah Gül and spoke in favour of accession of Turkey to the European Union. [5]
	India	Bangalore	28–30 July	Cameron discussed trade and met with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. [6] He travelled with Business Secretary Vince Cable. [7]
7	Italy	Rome	4–5 August	Cameron met with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
8	Belgium	Brussels	15–16 September	Cameron attended the European Council summit.
9			28–29 October	Cameron attended the European Council summit.
10	China	Beijing	8–12 November	Cameron made a Trade and Bilateral visit.
	South Korea	Seoul		Cameron attended the G20 summit.
11	Portugal	Lisbon	19–20 November	Cameron attended the NATO summit.
12	Switzerland	Zürich	30 November – 2 December	Cameron visited Zürich in connection with the England 2018 FIFA World Cup bid.
13	Afghanistan	Camp Bastion	5–7 December	Cameron visited troops and held bilateral talks with President Hamid Karzai. [8]
14	Belgium	Brussels	16–17 December	Cameron attended the European Council summit.

2011

#	Country	Location	Date	Details	Image
15	Switzerland	Davos	27–29 January	Cameron attended the World Economic Forum annual meeting.
16	Belgium	Brussels	4–5 February	Cameron attended the European Council summit.
	Germany	Munich		Cameron attended the 47th Munich Security Conference.
17	Egypt		21–24 February	Cameron made bilateral visits.
	Kuwait
	Qatar
	Oman
18	Belgium	Brussels	11 March	Cameron attended an extraordinary European Council summit.
19	France	Paris	19 March	Cameron attended the Libya conference.
20	Belgium	Brussels	24–25 March	Cameron attended the European Council summit.
21	Italy	Gioia del Colle	4–5 April	Cameron visited UK forces personnel.
	Pakistan	Islamabad		Cameron took part in a bilateral visit.
22	Ireland	Dublin	18 May	Cameron travelled to Dublin as part of Her Majesty's State Visit.
23	France	Deauville	26 May	Cameron attended the G8 summit.
24	Czech Republic	Prague	23 June	Cameron took part in a bilateral visit.
25	Belgium	Brussels	24 June	Cameron attended the European Council summit.
26	Afghanistan	Camp Bastion	3–5 July	Cameron met troops, local leaders and held a bilateral meeting with President Hamid Karzai.
27	South Africa	Johannesburg	17–19 July	Cameron met with President Jacob Zuma, business leaders and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
	Nigeria	Lagos		Cameron met with President Goodluck Jonathan and business leaders.
28	France	Paris	1 September	Cameron attended a multilateral summit on Libya.
29	Libya	Tripoli, Benghazi	15 September	Cameron met with members of the National Transitional Council.
30	Russia	Moscow	11–12 September	Cameron met with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, President Dmitry Medvedev and business leaders. [9]
31	United States	New York City	21–22 September	Cameron attended the 66th United Nations General Assembly and held bilateral meetings.
	Canada	Ottawa		Cameron met with Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
32	Belgium	Brussels	23 October	Cameron attended the European Council summit.
33			26–30 October	Cameron attended the European Council summit.
	Australia	Perth		Cameron attended the 2011 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.
34	France	Cannes	3–4 November	Cameron attended the G20 summit.
35	Belgium	Brussels	18 November	Cameron met with President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso and President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy.
	Germany	Berlin		Cameron met with Chancellor Angela Merkel.
36	France	Paris	2 December	Cameron met with President Nicolas Sarkozy.
37	Belgium	Brussels	8–9 December	Cameron attended the European Council summit.
38	Afghanistan	Kandahar Airfield	19 December	Cameron met with British Forces and local leaders.
39	Czech Republic	Prague	23 December	Cameron attended the funeral of Vaclav Havel.

2012

#	Country	Location	Date	Details	Image
40	Saudi Arabia	Riyadh	12 January	Cameron took part in a bilateral visit.
41	France	Strasbourg	25–27 January	Cameron attended a meeting of the Council of Europe.
	Switzerland	Davos		Cameron attended the World Economic Forum annual meeting.
42	Belgium	Brussels	30 January	Cameron attended the European Council summit.
43	Sweden	Stockholm	8–9 February	Cameron attended the Nordic Future Forum.
44	France	Paris	17 February	Cameron attended the UK-France summit.
45	Belgium	Brussels	1–2 March	Cameron attended the European Council summit.
46	United States	Washington, D.C., New York City	13–15 March	Cameron met with President Barack Obama and attended the state dinner at the White House.
47	Japan	Tokyo	9–13 April	Cameron made bilateral and economic visits, including meeting with Aung San Suu Kyi after the historic by-elections
	Indonesia	Jakarta
	Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur
	Singapore
	Myanmar	Naypyidaw, Rangoon
48	United States	Camp David, Chicago	18–21 May	Cameron attended the G8 summit and the NATO summit.
49	Belgium	Brussels	23 May	Cameron attended the European Council summit.
50	Norway	Oslo	6–7 June	Cameron made bilateral visits.
	Germany	Berlin
51	Mexico	Los Cabos, Mexico City	18–20 June	Cameron made a bilateral visit and attended the G20 summit.
52	Belgium	Brussels	28–29 June	Cameron attended the European Council summit.
53	Afghanistan	Helmand Province	17–19 July	Cameron met with British forces and local leaders.
54	United States	New York City	25–28 September	Cameron attended the 67th United Nations General Assembly.
	Brazil	São Paulo, Brasília, Rio de Janeiro		Cameron made a bilateral and trade visit to Brazil.
55	Belgium	Brussels	18–19 October	Cameron attended the European Council summit.
56	United Arab Emirates		5–7 November	Cameron made bilateral visits.
	Saudi Arabia
	Jordan
57	Italy	Rome	13 November	Cameron made bilateral visits.
	Netherlands	The Hague
58	Belgium	Brussels	22–23 November	Cameron attended the European Council summit.
59			13–14 December	Cameron attended the European Council summit.
60	Afghanistan	Camp Bastion	20–21 December	Cameron met with British forces and local leaders.

2013

#	Country	Location	Date	Details	Image
61	Switzerland	Davos	22–25 January	Cameron attended the World Economic Forum at Davos. [10]
62	Algeria	Algiers	30 January – 1 February	Cameron travelled to Algeria on the first visit to the country by a British prime minister post Independence, meeting with President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal, attended a meeting of the UN High Level Panel in Monrovia and held bilateral meetings. [11]
	Libya	Tripoli
	Liberia	Monrovia
63	Belgium	Brussels	7–8 February	Cameron attended the European Council summit.
64	India	Mumbai, Delhi, Amritsar	17–20 February	Cameron undertook an overseas trade mission and held bilateral meetings.
65	Latvia	Riga	27–28 February	Cameron attended the Northern Future Forum.
66	Belgium	Brussels	14–15 March	Cameron attended the European Council summit.
67	Spain	Madrid	8 April	Cameron held bilateral meetings.
68	Germany	Berlin	12–14 April	Cameron held bilateral meetings.
69	Russia	Sochi	10 May	Cameron held bilateral meetings.
70	United States	Washington, D.C., Boston, New York City	12–15 May	Cameron attended the UN High Level Panel and held bilateral meetings.
71	Belgium	Brussels	22 May	Cameron attended the European Council summit and held bilateral meetings.
	France	Paris
72	Belgium	Brussels	27–28 June	Cameron attended the European Council summit.
73	Afghanistan	Kabul	29 June – 1 July	Cameron met with British forces.
	Pakistan	Islamabad		Cameron held bilateral meetings.
	Kazakhstan	Atyrau, Astana		Cameron met with President Nursultan Nazarbayev. [12]
74	Russia	Saint Petersburg	5–6 September	Cameron attended the G20 summit.
75	Belgium	Brussels	24–25 October	Cameron attended the European Council summit and held bilateral meetings.
76	India	Delhi, Kolkata	13–17 November	Cameron attended the 2013 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Colombo and held bilateral meetings.
	Sri Lanka	Colombo
	United Arab Emirates	Dubai, Abu Dhabi
77	Lithuania	Vilnius	28–29 November	Cameron attended the Eastern Partnership summit.
78	China	Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu	1–3 December	Cameron undertook an overseas trade mission and held bilateral meetings.
79	South Africa	Johannesburg	9–11 December	Cameron attended the memorial service of Nelson Mandela.
80	Afghanistan	Camp Bastion	15–16 December	Cameron met with British forces.
81	Belgium	Brussels, Ypres	19–20 December	Cameron attended the European Council summit and held bilateral meetings.

2014

#	Country	Location	Date	Details	Image
82	Switzerland	Davos	23–24 January	Cameron attended the World Economic Forum at Davos.
83	Belgium	Brussels	6 March	Cameron attended the European Council summit.
84	Germany	Hanover	9–10 March	Cameron attended the CeBIT trade fair.
85	Israel Occupied Palestinian territories		12–13 March	Cameron undertook a trade mission and held bilateral meetings.
86	Belgium	Brussels	20–21 March	Cameron attended the European Council summit.
87	Netherlands	The Hague	24–25 March	Cameron attended the Nuclear Security Summit and held bilateral meetings.
88	Belgium	Brussels	27–28 May	Cameron attended the European Council summit.
89	Belgium	Brussels	4–5 June	Cameron attended the G7 summit.
90	France	Normandy	5–6 June	Cameron attended D-Day commemorations.
91	Sweden	Harpsund	9–10 June	Cameron attended a meeting with Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel, and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte.
92	Belgium	Brussels, Ypres	26–27 June	Cameron attended the European Council summit.
93	Belgium	Brussels	16–17 July	Cameron attended the European Council summit.
94	France		4 August	Cameron attended First World War centenary Commemorations.
	Belgium
95	Belgium	Brussels	30 August	Cameron attended the European Council summit.
96	United States	New York City	22–24 September	Cameron attended the 69th United Nations General Assembly.
97	Afghanistan	Kabul	3 October	Cameron became the first foreign leader to visit new President of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani. [13]
98	Italy	Milan	16–17 October	Cameron attended the Asia-Europe meeting.
99	Belgium	Brussels	23–24 October	Cameron attended the European Council summit.
100	Finland	Helsinki	6–7 November	Cameron attended the Northern Future Forum.
101	Australia	Brisbane	13–17 November	Cameron attended the G20 summit.
102	Turkey	Ankara	9–10 December	Cameron held bilateral meetings with Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
	Poland	Oświęcim		Cameron visited the Auschwitz concentration camp. [14]
103	Belgium	Brussels	18 December	Cameron attended the European Council summit.

2015

#	Country	Location	Date	Details	Image
104	France	Paris	11 January	Cameron met with President François Hollande and other leaders and to attend march.
105	United States	Washington, D.C.	15–16 January	Cameron undertook a Global economy security visit and attended bilateral meetings.
106	Saudi Arabia	Riyadh	24 January	Cameron paid condolences following the death of King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz.
107	Belgium	Brussels	12 February	Cameron attended the European Council summit.
108			19–20 March	Cameron attended the European Council summit.
109			23 April	Cameron attended the European Council summit.
110	Latvia	Riga	21 May	Cameron attended the Eastern partnership summit.
111	Netherlands	The Hague	28–29 May	Cameron held bilateral talks with Prime Minister Mark Rutte.
	France	Paris		Cameron held bilateral talks with President François Hollande.
	Poland	Warsaw		Cameron held bilateral talks with Polish Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz.
	Germany	Berlin		Cameron held bilateral talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
112	Germany	Schloss Elmau	7 June	Cameron attended the G7 summit.
113	Belgium	Brussels	10 June	Cameron attended the EU-CELAC meeting.
114	Italy	Milan	17 June	Cameron visited Expo 2015 and held bilateral meetings.
	Luxembourg	Luxembourg		Cameron held a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Xavier Bettel.
115	Slovenia	Ljubljana	18–19 June	Cameron held Bilateral talks with Prime Minister Miro Cerar.
	Slovakia	Bratislava		Cameron held Bilateral talks with Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka and attended the GLOBSEC Conference.
116	Germany	Berlin	24–25 June	Cameron took part in the German State Visit.
117	Belgium	Brussels	25–26 June	Cameron attended the European Council summit.
118	Indonesia	Jakarta	26–31 June	Cameron took a Trade Mission and held bilateral talks.
	Singapore
	Vietnam	Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City
	Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur
119	Portugal	Lisbon	3–4 September	Cameron held bilateral talks with Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho.
	Spain	Madrid		Cameron held bilateral talks with Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy.
120	Lebanon	Beirut	14 September	Cameron held bilateral talks with Prime Minister Tammam Salam.
	Jordan	Amman		Cameron held bilateral talks with King Abdullah II
121	Belgium	Brussels	23–24 September	Cameron attended the European Council summit.
122	United States	New York City	27 September – 1 October	Cameron attended the 70th United Nations General Assembly.
	Jamaica	Kingston		Cameron held bilateral talks with Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller.
	Grenada	St. George's		Cameron held bilateral talks with Prime Minister Mitchell.
123	Belgium	Brussels	15–16 October	Cameron attended the European Council summit.
124	Iceland	Reykjavík	22–29 October	Cameron attended the Northern Future Forum.
125	Malta	Valletta	11–12 November	Cameron attended a Migration Summit and held bilateral talks.
126	Turkey	Antalya	15–16 November	Cameron attended the G20 summit.
127	France	Paris	23 November	Cameron held bilateral talks with President François Hollande.
128	Austria	Vienna	26 November	Cameron held bilateral talks.
	Malta	Valletta		Cameron attended the 2015 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.
129	Belgium	Brussels	29–30 November	Cameron attended the EU-Turkey summit.
	France	Paris		Cameron attended the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference.
130	Bulgaria	Sofia	3–4 December	Cameron held bilateral talks.
131	Romania	Bucharest	9–10 December	Cameron held bilateral talks.
	Poland	Warsaw
132	Belgium	Brussels	17 December	Cameron attended the European Council summit.

2016

#	Country	Location	Date	Details	Image
133	Germany	Bavaria	6–7 January	Cameron held bilateral meetings.
	Hungary	Budapest
134	Switzerland	Davos	20–22 January	Cameron attended the World Economic Forum
	Czech Republic	Prague		Cameron held bilateral talks with Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka and President Miloš Zeman.
135	Belgium	Brussels	29 January	Cameron had a working lunch with President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker and a bilateral meeting with President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz.
136	Poland	Warsaw	4–5 February	Cameron held bilateral talks.
	Denmark	Copenhagen
137	Germany	Hamburg	12 February	Cameron had a working dinner with Chancellor Angela Merkel
138	France	Paris	15–16 February	Cameron held a bilateral meeting with President François Hollande
	Belgium	Brussels		Cameron attended the Conference of Presidents of the European Parliament.
139	Belgium	Brussels	18–19 February	Cameron attended the European Council summit.
140	France	Amiens	3 March	Cameron attended the UK-France Defence summit.
141	Belgium	Brussels	7 March	Cameron attended the EU-Turkey Summit.
142	Belgium	Brussels	17–18 March	Cameron attended the European Council summit.
143	United States	Washington, D.C.	31 March – 1 April	Cameron attended the Nuclear Security Summit and held bilateral meetings.
144	Germany	Hanover	25 April	Cameron attended the Quint Meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President François Hollande, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, and U.S. President Barack Obama.
145	Japan	Ise-Shima	25–27 May	Cameron attended the G7 summit.
146	Belgium	Brussels	28 June	Cameron attended the Conference of Presidents of the European Parliament.
147	France	Thiepval	1 July	Cameron attended the Somme Centenary Commemoration.
148	Poland	Warsaw	8–9 July	Cameron attended the NATO summit.

Multilateral meetings

David Cameron participated in the following summits during his premiership:

Group	Year
	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
UNGA	24 September, [a] New York City	22 September, New York City	26 September, New York City	27 September, [a] New York City	24 September, New York City	September, New York City
G7	25–26 June, Huntsville	26–27 May, Deauville	18–19 May, Camp David	17–18 June, Enniskillen	4–5 June, Brussels	7–8 June, Krün	26–27 May, Shima
G-20	26–27 June, Toronto	3–4 November, Cannes	18–19 June, Los Cabos	5–6 September, Saint Petersburg	15–16 November, Brisbane	15–16 November, Antalya
	11–12 November, Seoul
NATO	19–20 November, Lisbon	none	20–21 May, Chicago	none	4–5 September, Newport	none	8–9 July, Warsaw
NSS				24–25 March, The Hague		31 March – 1 April, Washington, D.C.
EP		30 September, Warsaw		28–29 November, Vilnius		21–22 May, Riga
EU Summit	17 June, 28–29 October, 16–17 December, Brussels	4 February, 24–25 March, 23–24 June, 23 October, 8–9 December, Brussels	1–2 March, 28–29 June, 18–19 October, 13–14 December, Brussels	7–8 February, 14–15 March, 22 May, 27–28 June, 19–20 December, Brussels	20–21 March, 26–27 June, 23–24 October, 18 December, Brussels	19–20 March, 25–26 June, 15 October, 17–18 December,	18–19 February, 17–18 March,
CHOGM	none	28–30 October, Perth	none	15–17 November, Colombo	none	27–29 November, Valletta	none
██ = Did not attend ^a Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg attended in the Prime Minister's place.

See also

• Foreign relations of the United Kingdom
• List of international trips made by prime ministers of the United Kingdom
• List of state visits made by Elizabeth II
• List of Commonwealth visits made by Elizabeth II
• List of international trips made by David Cameron as Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom

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