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The following is a list of international prime ministerial trips made by Indira Gandhi during her tenure as the Prime Minister of India from January 1966 to March 1977, and again from January 1980 to October 1984. The first overseas visit was a stopover to France on her way to the United States in 1966.
In her sixteen-year long tenure as the Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi made 52 international trips, visiting 69 countries, including visits to the United States to attend the United Nations General Assembly.
Number of visits | Country |
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1 visit (47) | Algeria, Argentina, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Germany, Fiji, Finland, Greece, Guyana, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Jamaica, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, Maldives, Mexico, Mozambique, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Sikkim, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Vatican City, Venezuela, West Germany, Zambia, Zimbabwe |
2 visits (13) | Afghanistan, Australia, Austria, Bhutan, Bulgaria, Burma, Cyprus, Indonesia, Japan, Kenya, Nepal, Romania, Tanzania |
3 visits (4) | Mauritius, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, United Arab Republic |
5 visits (3) | France, United Kingdom, Yugoslavia |
6 visits (1) | United States |
9 visits (1) | Soviet Union |
Country | Areas visited | Date(s) | Purpose | Notes | |
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1 | ![]() | Paris | 25–26 March | Stop-over in Paris on her way to Washington. Met President de Gaulle at the Elysee Palace and Prime Minister Pompidou. [1] [2] [3] | |
![]() | Williamsburg, New York City | 27 March–1 April | Official visit | Met President Johnson at the White House. [4] [5] [6] | |
![]() | London | 2 April | Brief stop-over in London. Met PM Wilson. [7] [8] | ||
![]() | Moscow | 3 April | Stopped for a day in Moscow. Met Chairman Alexei Kosygin. [9] | ||
2 | ![]() | Cairo | 8–9 July | Met President Gamal Abdel Nasser at the Koubbeh Palace in Cairo. [10] [11] | |
![]() | Brijuni | 10–11 July | Met President Josip Broz Tito at his retreat villa in the Brioni Islands in the Adriatic Sea. [10] [12] [13] [14] | ||
![]() | Moscow | 12–16 July | [10] [15] | ||
3 | ![]() | Kathmandu | 4–7 October | [10] |
Country | Areas visited | Date(s) | Purpose | Notes | |
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4 | ![]() | Colombo | 18–21 September | Goodwill visit | [16] |
5 | ![]() | Warsaw | 8–11 October | Official Visit | [16] [17] |
![]() | Belgrade | 11–13 October | Official Visit | Welcomed at the airport by President Tito. [18] [16] | |
![]() | Sofia | 13–16 October | Official Visit | First visit by an Indian Prime Minister to Bulgaria. Welcomed at the airport by General Secretary Todor Zhivkov. [16] [19] | |
![]() | Bucharest | 16–19 October | Official Visit | Met with General Secretary Nicolae Ceauşescu. [20] [16] | |
![]() | 19–21 October | ||||
6 | ![]() | Moscow | 6–8 November | 50th Anniversary of the October Revolution | Attended the October Revolution Parade. [16] [21] |
Country | Areas visited | Date(s) | Purpose | Notes | |
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7 | ![]() | 3–5 May | |||
![]() | 5–6 May | ||||
8 | ![]() | 20–21 May | |||
![]() | Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne [22] | 21–27 May | Official Visit | First visit by an Indian Prime Minister to Australia. Visited the Australian War Memorial. [23] Attended a luncheon hosted in her honor by Prime Minister John Gorton at Parliament House, Canberra. [24] Visited the Taronga Zoo in Sydney. [25] Attended a dinner hosted in her honor at the University of Melbourne by Chancellor of the university and former PM Robert Menzies. [26] Given the ideological differences and divergence of strategic interests between India and Australia at that time, it was reported that the visit was high on pageantry but devoid of much substance. [27] | |
![]() | Wellington | 27–29 May | Official Visit | First visit by an Indian Prime Minister to New Zealand. Attended a luncheon hosted in her honor at Parliament House, Wellington. [28] [29] Visited the Dominion Museum. | |
![]() | Kuala Lumpur | 29 May–1 June | |||
![]() | Rangoon | 1 June | Stop-over | ||
9 | ![]() | 23–27 September | During this South American tour, there was also a plan to visit Peru, which had to be cancelled due to the 1968 Peruvian coup d'état, which happened just before PM Gandhi was about to arrive in Lima. | ||
![]() | Montevideo | 27–28 September | |||
![]() | Buenos Aires | 29– September [30] | |||
![]() | Santiago [31] | 8– October [32] | |||
![]() | Bogota | ||||
![]() | Caracas | 10–11 October [33] | |||
![]() | Port of Spain | 11–12 October | |||
![]() | 12–13 October [34] | ||||
![]() | New York City | 14 October | UN General Assembly | [35] |
Country | Areas visited | Date(s) | Purpose | Notes | |
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10 | ![]() | London | 7–10 January | Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference | [35] |
11 | ![]() | Rangoon | 27–30 March | Met with the Chairman of the Revolutionary Council of Burma General Ne Win. [36] [37] | |
12 | ![]() | Kabul | 5–10 June | ||
13 | ![]() | 23–28 June | [37] | ||
![]() | 28 June–3 July | State visit | |||
![]() | 3 July | Stop-over | [38] |
Country | Areas visited | Date(s) | Purpose | Notes | |
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14 | ![]() | Port Louis, Saint Pierre [39] | 2–6 June | State visit | [40] [39] |
15 | ![]() | Lusaka | 8–10 September | 3rd Summit of the Non-aligned Movement | [40] |
![]() | Nairobi | September | [40] | ||
16 | ![]() | Moscow | 20 October | Made a brief stop-over in Moscow en-route to the UNGA. | |
![]() | New York City | 21–25 October | UN General Assembly | Special UN General Assembly Session celebrating the 25th anniversary of the signing of the UN Charter. [40] | |
![]() | Cairo | 26 October | Eight hour visit, partially in personal capacity owing to the recent death of President Gamal Abdel Nasser. | ||
17 | ![]() | Paris | 12 November | Funeral of Charles de Gaulle | [40] |
Country | Areas visited | Date(s) | Purpose | Notes | |
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18 | ![]() | 27–29 September | [15] [41] | ||
19 | ![]() | Beirut | 24 October | Made a brief halt in Beirut on her way to Europe. | |
![]() | 24–25 October | [41] | |||
![]() | October–November | [41] [42] | |||
![]() | London | 28 October–3 November | [41] | ||
![]() | Washington DC, New York City | 3–6 November | Official visit | ||
![]() | 7–10 November | [41] | |||
![]() | Bonn | 10–12 November | [41] |
Country | Areas visited | Date(s) | Purpose | Notes | |
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20 | ![]() | 17–19 March | [43] [44] | ||
21 | ![]() | 13–17 June | Official visit | [44] | |
![]() | 17–20 June | [44] | |||
![]() | Budapest | 20–23 June | [44] | ||
22 | ![]() | Kurjey Lhakhang | 28 October | Cremation of King Jigme Dorji Wangchuck | [44] |
Country | Areas visited | Date(s) | Purpose | Notes | |
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23 | ![]() | Kathmandu | 7–10 February | Goodwill visit | [44] |
24 | ![]() | 27–29 April | Official visit | [45] | |
25 | ![]() | 15–17 June | [46] | ||
![]() | 17–25 June | Eight day visit, during which she addressed the Parliament of Canada. | |||
![]() | London | 25 June | On her way back from Canada, made a stopover in London. Held discussions with PM Heath. | ||
26 | ![]() | Algiers | 5–9 September | 4th Summit of the Non-aligned Movement | [46] |
Country | Areas visited | Date(s) | Purpose | Notes | |
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27 | ![]() | Tehran | 28 April–2 May | Official visit | [47] |
Country | Areas visited | Date(s) | Purpose | Notes | |
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28 | ![]() | 12–14 January | Official visit | [47] | |
29 | ![]() | 18–21 January | Official visit | [47] | |
30 | ![]() | Kingston | 29 April–2 May | 1975 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting | [48] |
Country | Areas visited | Date(s) | Purpose | Notes | |
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31 | ![]() | Moscow, Yerevan, Tbilisi | 8–13 June | First overseas visit since declaration of Emergency in June 1975. | |
32 | ![]() | East Berlin | 1–4 July | [49] | |
![]() | 4–7 July | [49] | |||
33 | ![]() | Colombo | August | 5th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement | [49] |
34 | ![]() | 8–11 October | [49] | ||
![]() | Dar-es-Salaam | 11–13 October | Official visit | Welcomed by Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere, Prime Minister Rashidi Kawawa and First Vice-President Aboud Jumbe. [49] [50] | |
![]() | Lusaka | 14–17 October | Received by President Kenneth Kaunda. [49] [51] [52] | ||
![]() | 17 October | [49] |
Country | Areas visited | Date(s) | Purpose | Notes | |
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35 | ![]() | Dar-es-Salaam, Tanga [53] | 16–17 April | Received by President Julius Nyerere. [54] [53] | |
![]() | Salisbury | 18 April | Zimbabwean Independence celebration | [54] | |
36 | ![]() | 8 May | Funeral of President Josip Tito | [54] |
Country | Areas visited | Date(s) | Purpose | Notes | |
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37 | ![]() | Nicosia? [55] Larnaca? [56] | May | Short technical stop-over | Met with President of Cyprus Spyros Kyprianou. |
![]() | Geneva | 6 May | 34th World Health Assembly | Attended WHO 34th World Health Assembly. [57] Met with ICRC President Alexandre Hay. [58] | |
![]() | May | [55] | |||
![]() | May | [55] [59] | |||
38 | ![]() | 9 August | Transit stop-over | Met with President of Seychelles France-Albert René. [55] | |
![]() | Nairobi | 9–12 August | UN Conference on New and Renewable Sources of Energy | PM Gandhi delivered keynote address at the conference. Met Canadian PM. [55] | |
39 | ![]() | Jakarta | 23–24 September [60] | Welcomed by President Suharto at the airport. [55] [60] | |
![]() | September | First visit by an Indian Prime Minister. [55] | |||
![]() | Suva, Deuba [61] | 26 September [62] | First visit by an Indian Prime Minister. [55] [63] | ||
![]() | Melbourne | 29 September–7 October | Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 1981 | [64] [55] [65] | |
![]() | Manila | 8–10 October [66] [67] | Official visit | First visit by an Indian Prime Minister. Greeted by President Fedinand Marcos and First Lady Imelda Marcos at the airport. [55] [68] [69] | |
40 | ![]() | 18–20 October [67] [70] | Official visit | ||
![]() | Cancun | 21–23 October | North–South Summit | On October 21, [71] met US President Reagan (for the first time), Chinese Prime Minister Zhao Ziyang and President Sergej Kraigher of Yugoslavia. [55] | |
41 | ![]() | [55] | |||
![]() | Rome | 9–12 November [72] [73] | Official visit | First visit by an Indian Prime Minister. [55] Attended a press conference with Italian Prime Minister Giovanni Spadolini. [73] Spoke at the 21st biennial conference of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. Went shopping in the center of Rome. [74] | |
![]() | 9 November | Personal visit | Met Pope John Paul II accompanied by daughters-in-law Sonia Gandhi and Maneka Gandhi. [73] [75] | ||
![]() | Paris | 13– November [76] | Met President François Mitterrand and PM Pierre Mauroy. [76] [55] | ||
42 | ![]() | 1981 | [55] |
Country | Areas visited | Date(s) | Purpose | Notes | |
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43 | ![]() | London | 21–26 March | Inauguration of the Festival of India | [77] [78] |
44 | ![]() | Riyadh | 18–21 April [79] | Official Visit | First visit by an Indian PM in 26 years (since 1956). Met with King Khalid. [79] [77] |
45 | ![]() | New York City, Los Angeles, Honolulu | 27 July–4 August | State visit | [80] [77] |
![]() | Tokyo | 5 August | [77] [81] | ||
46 | ![]() | 23–25 August | [77] | ||
![]() | Maputo | 26–27 August [82] [83] | [77] | ||
47 | ![]() | Moscow, Star City, Tallinn, Kiev | 19–28 [84] (20–26? [85] )September | State visit | [77] [86] [87] In Star City, visited facilities where Indian astronauts Rakesh Sharma and Ravish Malhotra were training. [88] |
48 | ![]() | Moscow | 15 November | Funeral of Leonid Brezhnev | [77] |
Country | Areas visited | Date(s) | Purpose | Notes | |
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49 | ![]() | Oslo | 1– June [89] [90] | [91] | |
![]() | 8–9 June [70] [91] | Official visit | |||
![]() | Helsinki | 10 June [92] | |||
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![]() | 17–22 June | [42] [91] | |||
50 | ![]() | 20–22 September | [91] | ||
![]() | Athens, Delphi | 22–24 September | |||
![]() | Paris | September 1983 | On her way to New York. Gandhi made a stop over in Paris. [91] | ||
![]() | New York City | September 1983 | 38th UN General Assembly | [91] |
Country | Areas visited | Date(s) | Purpose | Notes | |
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51 | ![]() | Moscow | February 1984 | Funeral of Yuri Andropov | [93] |
52 | ![]() | April 1984 | [93] | ||
![]() | April 1984 | [93] |
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