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List of international trips made by Yasser Arafat

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.

1960s

Date Location Purpose Ref.
1962  Algeria
July 1968  Soviet Union

1970s

Date Location Purpose Ref.
1 October 1970  Egypt Attended the funeral of Gamal Abdel Nasser
1971  East Germany
11 November 1974  United States New York [1]
1 November 1976  Morocco Rabat
17 February 1979  Iran Tehran [2]
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 [3]
September 1979  Spain [4]

1980s

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

1990s

Date Location Purpose Ref.
28–30 May 1990  Iraq Baghdad Emergency Arab Summit Conference
5 August 1990  Egypt Cairo Emergency Arab Summit Conference in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait [32]
10 August 1990  Egypt Cairo Emergency Arab Summit Conference in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait
December 1991  Kazakhstan
8 April 1992  Libya [33]
June 1993  North Korea
7 December 1993  Germany Bonn Met Chancellor Helmut Kohl [34]
13 September 1993  United States Washington D.C. Oslo Accord signing ceremony [35]
16 December 1993  United Kingdom London Met Prime Minister John Major [36]
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 [37]
28 May 1995  Morocco Rabat Met Foreign Minister Shimon Peres [38]
November 1995  Germany Hamburg
25–27 December 1995  Oman Muscat [39]
14 January 1996  Saudi Arabia [40]
2–3 May 1996  United States Washington D.C. Met President Bill Clinton [41]
23 May 1996  Oman Muscat [42]
3–4 June 1996  United Kingdom Met Prime Minister John Major [43]
19 June 1996  Vietnam [44]
10–13 September 1996  Japan [45]
1–2 October 1996  United States Washington D.C. Attended emergency White House summit with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu [46]
30–31 October 1996  Spain [47]
20–22 November 1997  India
1998  Netherlands Amsterdam
12 August 1998  South Africa Cape Town Met with senior officials and delivered a speech in Parliament [48]
15–23 October 1998  United States Wye River Negotiating the Wye River Memorandum [49]
25 October 1998  Algeria Met President Liamine Zéroual [50]
5–6 April 1999  Russia Moscow Met President Boris Yeltsin [51]
April 1999  Ukraine Kyiv
April 1999  Kazakhstan
April 1999  Japan [52]
3 May 1999  Denmark
9 September 1999  Libya
October 1999  Japan [53]
15 October 1999  Vietnam [54]
November 1999  Russia Moscow

2000s

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 [55]
11 August 2000  Russia Moscow Met President Vladimir Putin [56]
17–18 August 2000  Japan Held talks on the outcome of Camp David [57]
10 November 2000  Canada Ottawa Met Prime Minister Jean Chrétien [58]
2 January 2001  United States Washington D.C. Met President Bill Clinton [59]
20 March 2001  Saudi Arabia Jeddah Met King Fahd and Crown Prince Abdullah [60]
29 May 2001  Russia Moscow Met President Vladimir Putin [61]
22 July 2001  Saudi Arabia Met King Fahd [62]
July 2001  Saudi Arabia Jeddah Offered condolences on the death of Prince Fahd bin Salman Al Saud
23 August 2001  Pakistan [63]
24 ِ August 2001  China Working visit [64]
25 August 2001  Vietnam Working visit [65]
2 September 2001  Saudi Arabia Jeddah Met King Fahd and Crown Prince Abdullah [66]
9 October 2001  Bahrain Manama Met Emir Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa [67]
14 October 2001  United Kingdom London Met Prime Minister Tony Blair [68]
15 October 2001  Ireland Met with the Taoiseach Bertie Ahern [69]
5 November 2001  Belgium Brussels Met Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres [70]
25 November 2001  Egypt Met Hosni Mubarak [71]

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