List of international trips made by Rex Tillerson as United States Secretary of State

Last updated August 28, 2024

This is a list of international visits undertaken by Rex Tillerson (in office 2017–2018)^[1] while serving as the 69th United States secretary of state. The list includes both private travel and official state visits. The list includes only foreign travel which he made during his tenure in the position.^[1]

Summary

The number of visits per country or territory where Secretary Tillerson traveled are:

One visit to Afghanistan, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Chad, Colombia, Djibouti, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Iraq, Israel, Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Palestinian National Authority, Peru, Russia, Thailand, Ukraine, Vatican City and Vietnam
Two visits to Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Philippines, Poland and South Korea
Three visits to China, Italy, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom

Table

	Country	Locations	Details	Dates
1	Germany	Bonn	Attended a G-20 Foreign Ministers' Meeting.	February 15–17, 2017
2	Mexico	Mexico City	Discussed bilateral relations with President Enrique Peña Nieto and Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray. Was joined by Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly.	February 22–23, 2017
3	Japan	Tokyo	Met with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida.	March 15–16, 2017
	South Korea	Seoul	Met with Acting President Hwang Kyo-ahn and Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se. Visited the Demilitarized Zone.	March 17–18, 2017
	China	Beijing	Met with President Xi Jinping, Foreign Minister Wang Yi and State Counselor Yang Jiechi.	March 18–19, 2017
4	Turkey	Ankara	Met with President Recep Erdoğan, Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım, and Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu.	March 30–31, 2017
4	Belgium	Brussels	Attended a NATO Ministerial Meeting.	March 31, 2017
5	Italy	Lucca	Attended a G-7 Foreign Ministers' Meeting.	April 9–11, 2017
5	Russia	Moscow	Met with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and President Vladimir Putin.	April 11–13, 2017
6	Saudi Arabia	Riyadh	Accompanied President Trump.	May 20–22, 2017
	Israel	Jerusalem		May 22–23, 2017
	Palestinian National Authority	Bethlehem		May 23, 2017
	Italy	Rome		May 23–24, 2017
	Vatican City	Vatican City		May 24, 2017
	Italy	Taormina	Accompanied President Trump to the G-7 Economic Summit.	May 25–26, 2017
	United Kingdom	London	Met with Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson. Signed book of condolences for the Manchester terrorist attack.	May 26, 2017
7	Australia	Sydney	Attended the Australia–U.S. Ministerial Consultations.	June 5–6, 2017
7	New Zealand	Wellington	Met with Prime Minister Bill English and Foreign Minister Gerry Brownlee.	June 6–7, 2017
8	Germany	Hamburg	Accompanied President Trump to the G-20 Summit.	July 5–9, 2017
	Ukraine	Kyiv	Met with President Petro Poroshenko.	July 9, 2017
	Turkey	Istanbul	Met with President Recep Erdoğan and Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu.	July 9–10, 2017
	Kuwait	Kuwait City	Met with Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah and senior Kuwaiti officials.	July 10–11, 2017
	Qatar	Doha	Met with Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani. Signed MOU to prevent financing of terrorism.	July 11, 2017
	Saudi Arabia	Jeddah	Met with King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and the Foreign Ministers of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt.	July 11–12, 2017
	Kuwait	Kuwait City	Met with Foreign Minister Sabah al-Khalid al-Sabah.	July 12–13, 2017
	Qatar	Doha	Met with Emir Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani.	July 13, 2017
9	Philippines	Manila	Attended the U.S.–ASEAN Ministerial Meeting.	August 6–8, 2017
	Thailand	Bangkok	Met with Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai.	August 8, 2017
	Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur	Met with Deputy Prime Minister Zahid Hamidi.	August 8–9, 2017
10	United Kingdom	London	Attended a Six-Party Ministerial Meeting on Libya. Met with Prime Minister Theresa May.	September 14, 2017
11	China	Beijing	Met with President Xi Jinping, Foreign Minister Wang Yi, and State Councilor Yang Jiechi.	September 30 – October 1, 2017
12	Saudi Arabia	Riyadh	Met with King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir. Attended the first meeting of the Saudi Arabia–Iraq Coordination Council.	October 21–22, 2017
	Qatar	Doha	Met with Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim al-Thani.	October 22–23, 2017
	Afghanistan	Bagram	Met with President Ashraf Ghani.	October 23, 2017
	Iraq	Baghdad	Met with Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi.	October 23, 2017
	Pakistan	Islamabad	Met with senior Pakistani officials.	October 24, 2017
	India	New Delhi	Met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj.	October 25, 2017
	Switzerland	Geneva	Met with UN Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi, and International Committee of the Red Cross President Peter Maurer.	October 26, 2017
13	Japan	Tokyo	Accompanied President Trump.	November 5–7, 2017
	South Korea	Seoul		November 5–8, 2017
	China	Beijing		November 8–10, 2017
	Vietnam	Da Nang Hanoi	Accompanied President Trump to an APEC Meeting.	November 10–12, 2017
	Philippines	Manila	Accompanied President Trump to ASEAN Summit Meetings.	November 12–14, 2017
	Myanmar	Nay Pyi Taw	Met with State Councilor Aung San Suu Kyi and Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing.	November 15, 2017
14	Belgium	Brussels	Attended a NATO Foreign Ministers Meeting and met with EU Foreign Ministers.	December 4–6, 2017
	Austria	Vienna	Attended an OSCE Ministerial Council Meeting.	December 7, 2017
	France	Paris	Attended the International Support Group for Lebanon Ministerial Meeting and met with President Emmanuel Macron and Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian.	December 8, 2017
15	Canada	Ottawa	Met with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland.	December 19, 2017
16	Canada	Vancouver	Co-hosted the Vancouver Foreign Ministers’ Meeting on Security and Stability on the Korean Peninsula with Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland.	January 15–17, 2018
17	United Kingdom	London	Met with Prime Minister Theresa May, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, and National Security Advisor Mark Sedwill.	January 21–22, 2018
	France	Paris	Met with senior French officials and attended the launch of the International Partnership against Impunity for the Use of Chemical Weapons.	January 23–24, 2018
	Switzerland	Davos	Attended the 2018 World Economic Forum.	January 24–26, 2018
	Poland	Warsaw	Discussed bilateral relations with senior Polish officials.	January 26–27, 2018
18	Mexico	Mexico City	Met with President Enrique Peña Nieto and Foreign Secretary Luis Videgaray.	February 1–2, 2018
	Argentina	San Carlos de Bariloche, Buenos Aires	Met with President Mauricio Macri and Foreign Minister Jorge Faurie.	February 3–4, 2018
	Peru	Lima	Met with President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and Foreign Minister Cayetana Aljovín.	February 5–6, 2018
	Colombia	Bogotá	Met with President Juan Manuel Santos and Foreign Minister María Ángela Holguín.	February 6, 2018
	Jamaica	Kingston	Met with Prime Minister Andrew Holness and Foreign Minister Kamina Johnson-Smith.	February 7, 2018
19	Egypt	Cairo	Met with senior Egyptian officials.	February 12, 2018
	Kuwait	Kuwait City	Led the U.S. delegation to the Ministerial Meeting of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS in Kuwait and participated in the Iraq Reconstruction Conference.	February 12–13, 2018
	Jordan	Amman	Met with King Abdullah II and Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Al-Safadi.	February 14, 2018
	Lebanon	Beirut	Met with Lebanese President Michel Aoun, Prime Minister Saad Hariri, and Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri.	February 15, 2018
	Turkey	Ankara	Met with senior Turkish officials.	February 15–16, 2018
20	Ethiopia	Addis Ababa	Met with Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, Ethiopian Foreign Minister Workneh Gebeyehu, and African Union Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat.	March 6–8, 2018
	Djibouti	Djibouti City	Met With Djiboutian President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh and Foreign Minister Mahamoud Ali Youssouf.	March 9, 2018
	Kenya	Nairobi	Met with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and Foreign Minister Monica Juma.	March 9–11, 2018
	Chad	N'Djamena	Met with Chadian President Idriss Deby and Foreign Minister Mahamat Zene Cherif.	March 12, 2018
	Nigeria	Abuja	Met with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari and Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama.	March 12, 2018

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List of international trips made by Rex Tillerson as United States Secretary of State

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