List of international trips made by Yasser Arafat

Arafat with President Bill Clinton and Prime Minister Ehud Barak in Camp David, 2000

This is a list of international trips made by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Arafat was permanently based in Kuwait until the end of 1964. He traveled extensively to garner international support for the Palestinian cause.

Summary

The number of visits per country where Yasser Arafat traveled are:

• One visit to Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, Iran, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, North Yemen, Poland, South Africa, Sudan, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates and the United Arab Republic
• Two visits to Czechoslovakia, East Germany, France, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Oman, Pakistan, Sweden and Yugoslavia
• Three visits to Germany, Greece, India, Iraq, Morocco, Spain, Syria and the United Kingdom
• Four visits to Libya, North Korea, Romania, Indonesia
• Five visits to Algeria, China, Egypt, and Vietnam
• Six visits to Japan and Saudi Arabia
• Seven visits to the Soviet Union/Russia and the United States

1960s

Date	Location	Purpose	Ref.
1962	Algeria
July 1968	Soviet Union

1970s

Arafat visiting the Brandenberg Wall, 1971

Date	Location	Purpose	Ref.
1 October 1970	United Arab Republic	Attended the funeral of Gamal Abdel Nasser
1971	East Germany
19 January 1973	Algeria Algiers		[1]
11 November 1974	United States New York		[2]
1 November 1976	Morocco Rabat
Spring 1978	Romania Bucharest	Met with President Nicolae Ceaușescu
17 February 1979	Iran Tehran		[3]
28 March 1979	Iraq Baghdad	He attended an Arab League meeting to discuss the peace treaty between Cairo and Tel Aviv
8 July 1979	Austria Vienna	Met with Chancellor Bruno Kreisky and German chancellor Willy Brandt	[4]
September 1979	Spain		[5]

1980s

Arafat with East German leader Erich Honecker, 1982

Date	Location	Purpose	Ref.
28–29 March 1980	India		[6]
8 May 1980	Yugoslavia	Attended the funeral of Josip Broz Tito
10 July 1981	Yugoslavia
7–10 October 1981	China		[7]
11–12 October 1981	North Korea		[8]
13 October 1981	Japan		[9]
16 October 1981	Vietnam
9 December 1981	United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi	Held talks with Austrian chancellor Bruno Kreisky
15–18 December 1981	Greece		[10]
December 1981	Romania
2 February 1982	Hungary
9 March 1982	East Germany
May 1982	India		3-Day Visit
24 May 1982	Pakistan		[11]
2 September 1982	Greece		[12]
16 September 1982	Italy	Met President Sandro Pertini	[13]
15 October 1982	Morocco
27 October 1982	Algeria
15 November 1982	Soviet Union	Leonid Brezhnev funeral
28 December 1982	Spain Mallorca	Met Chancellor Bruno Kreisky	[14]
19 February 1983	Algeria
14 April 1983	Sweden	Met Prime Minister Olof Palme	[15]
1983	Bulgaria
1983	Czechoslovakia
1983	Hungary
21 April 1983	Romania Bucharest	Met President Nicolae Ceaușescu	[16]
26 June 1983	Czechoslovakia Prague		[17]
1 September 1983	Switzerland Geneva	Addressed the U.N. conference on Palestine	[18]
23 December 1983	Egypt	Held talks with President Hosni Mubarak in the wake of the Battle of Tripoli	[19]
December 1983	North Yemen
31 December 1983	Tunisia	Convene the Palestinian National Council
6 May 1984	China	Held talks with high-ranking officials	[20]
7 May 1984	North Korea		[21]
25 July 1984	Indonesia	Met with President Soeharto	[22]
29 July 1984	Iraq		[23]
February 1985	Romania Bucharest	Met with President Nicolae Ceaușescu	[24]
14 July 1986	Sudan		[25]
20 January 1988	Greece	Met Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou	[26]
26 April 1988	Syria	Met President Hafez al-Assad	[27]
1 September 1988	Libya	Attend celebrations marking the 19th anniversary of the coup
13 September 1988	France Strasbourg	Addressed the European Parliament	[28]
17 September 1988	Libya
6 December 1988	Sweden		[29]
10 April 1989	Poland	Held talks with senior officials	[30]
3–4 May 1989	France Paris	Met President François Mitterrand	[31]
25–26 June 1989	North Korea
28 June 1989	Vietnam		[32]
1–4 October 1989	Japan		[33]
4–5 October 1989	China		[34]

1990s

Arafat with President Bill Clinton in the White House, 1998

Date	Location	Purpose	Ref.
28–30 May 1990	Iraq Baghdad	Emergency Arab Summit Conference
4 August 1990	Iraq Baghdad
5 August 1990	Egypt Cairo	Emergency Arab Summit Conference in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait	[35]
10 August 1990	Egypt Cairo	Emergency Arab Summit Conference in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait
December 1991	Kazakhstan
8 April 1992	Libya		[36]
1-6 September 1992	Indonesia	Attending the 1992 Non-Aligned Summit	[37]
June 1993	North Korea
7 December 1993	Germany Bonn	Met Chancellor Helmut Kohl	[38]
13 September 1993	United States Washington D.C.	Oslo Accord signing ceremony	[39]
24 September 1993	Indonesia	Discussing the Oslo Accords with the President of Indonesia	[40]
16 December 1993	United Kingdom London	Met Prime Minister John Major	[41]
22 January 1994	Syria	Offered condolences on the death of Bassel al-Assad
9 February 1994	Egypt Cairo
2 May 1994	Germany
23 February 1995	Saudi Arabia Mecca	Met King Fahd	[42]
28 May 1995	Morocco Rabat	Met Foreign Minister Shimon Peres	[43]
November 1995	Germany Hamburg
25–27 December 1995	Oman Muscat		[44]
14 January 1996	Saudi Arabia		[45]
2–3 May 1996	United States Washington D.C.	Met President Bill Clinton	[46]
23 May 1996	Oman Muscat		[47]
3–4 June 1996	United Kingdom	Met Prime Minister John Major	[48]
19 June 1996	Vietnam		[49]
10–13 September 1996	Japan		[50]
1–2 October 1996	United States Washington D.C.	Attended emergency White House summit with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu	[51]
30–31 October 1996	Spain		[52]
20–22 November 1997	India
December 1997	Iran Tehran	Islamic Summit
1998	Netherlands Amsterdam
12 August 1998	South Africa Cape Town	Met with senior officials and delivered a speech in Parliament	[53]
15–23 October 1998	United States Wye River	Negotiating the Wye River Memorandum	[54]
25 October 1998	Algeria	Met President Liamine Zéroual	[55]
5–6 April 1999	Russia Moscow	Met President Boris Yeltsin	[56]
April 1999	Ukraine Kyiv
April 1999	Kazakhstan
April 1999	Japan		[57]
3 May 1999	Denmark
9 September 1999	Libya
October 1999	Japan		[58]
15 October 1999	Vietnam		[59]
November 1999	Russia Moscow

2000s

President Vladimir Putin with Yasser Arafat, 2000

Arafat with Minister of Regional Cooperation Shimon Peres at the World Economic Forum annual meeting, 2001

Date	Location	Purpose	Ref.
13 June 2000	Syria	Attended the funeral of Hafez al-Assad
11–24 July 2000	United States	Camp David Summit
August 2000	China
5 August 2000	Turkey	Working visit	[60]
11 August 2000	Russia Moscow	Met President Vladimir Putin	[61]
16 August 2000	Indonesia	Meeting with President Abdurrahman Wahid	[62]
17–18 August 2000	Japan	Held talks on the outcome of Camp David	[63]
10 November 2000	Canada Ottawa	Met Prime Minister Jean Chrétien	[64]
24 November 2000	Russia Moscow	Met President Vladimir Putin	[65]
2 January 2001	United States Washington D.C.	Met President Bill Clinton	[66]
20 March 2001	Saudi Arabia Jeddah	Met King Fahd and Crown Prince Abdullah	[67]
29 May 2001	Russia Moscow	Met President Vladimir Putin	[68]
22 July 2001	Saudi Arabia	Met King Fahd	[69]
July 2001	Saudi Arabia Jeddah	Offered condolences on the death of Prince Fahd bin Salman Al Saud
23 August 2001	Pakistan		[70]
24 ِ August 2001	China	Working visit	[71]
25 August 2001	Vietnam	Working visit	[72]
2 September 2001	Saudi Arabia Jeddah	Met King Fahd and Crown Prince Abdullah	[73]
9 October 2001	Bahrain Manama	Met Emir Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa	[74]
14 October 2001	United Kingdom London	Met Prime Minister Tony Blair	[75]
15 October 2001	Ireland	Met with the Taoiseach Bertie Ahern	[76]
5 November 2001	Belgium Brussels	Met Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres	[77]
25 November 2001	Egypt	Met Hosni Mubarak	[78]

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