# List of international presidential trips made by Zuzana Čaputová

This is a list of international presidential trips made by Zuzana Čaputová, the fifth president of the Slovak republic, since her inauguration on 15 June 2019.

## Countries

Since June 2019, she has visited these countries:
* 1 visit: Denmark, Israel, Japan, Vatican City, Slovenia, Latvia, United Arab Emirates, Moldova, Italy, Spain, Greece, North Macedonia, Malta, Egypt
* 2 visits: Hungary, Ukraine, Switzerland, United States, France
* 3 visits: Austria, Belgium, United Kingdom
* 5 visits: Germany, Poland
* 8 visits: Czech Republic

## List
### 2019

| No. | Date | Country | Venue | Details |
| 1 | 20 June 2019 | Czech Republic | Prague | Meeting with president Zeman, speakers of both houses of the Czech parliament. Laying wreaths to the Milan Rastislav Štefánik memorial and on the grave of Václav Havel. End of official programme was a concert with name: Zuznana is not alone at home, which was organized by Slovaks living in the Czech Republic. |
| 2 | 25 June 2019 | Belgium | Brussels | Meeting with president of European commission Jean-Claude Juncker, Jens Stoltenberg from NATO, King Philipp and Slovak diplomats in EU and NATO. Meeting with Slovak citizens living in Belgium. |
| 3 | 11 July 2019 | Hungary | Budapest | Meeting with president Áder and prime minister Orbán, leaning wreath to the president Árpád Göncz memorial and meeting with Slovaks living in Hungary. |
| 4 | 15 July 2019 | Poland | Warsaw | Meeting with president Andrzej Duda, speakers of the both houses of parliament, Marek Kuchciński and Stanisław Karczewski, and with prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki. |
| 5 | 24 July 2019 | France | Paris | Meeting with president Emmanuel Macron and leaning bouquet in front of the Bataclan club, which was attacked by terrorists in 2015. |
| 5 | 25 July 2019 | France | Meudon | Laying wreaths to the Milan Rastislav Štefánik memorial. |
| 6 | 10 August 2019 | Switzerland | Ascona | Takeover of the European prize for political culture and attending a discussion about actual development in the Europe. |
| 7 | 21 August 2019 | Germany | Berlin | Meeting with president Frank-Walter Steinmeier, chancellor Angela Merkel and laying wreaths to the White crosses memorial, which commemorates people who died while trying to escape through the Berlin wall. |
| 7 | 22 August 2019 | Germany | Berlin | Meeting with president Frank-Walter Steinmeier, chancellor Angela Merkel and laying wreaths to the White crosses memorial, which commemorates people who died while trying to escape through the Berlin wall. |
| 8 | 30 August 2019 | Austria | Vienna | Meeting with president Alexander Van der Bellen, chancellor Brigitte Bierlein, employees of the Slovak embassy and permanent missions of Slovakia in OBSE and OSN in Vienna. Visiting Albertina museum. |
| 9 | 1 September 2019 | Poland | Warsaw | Commemorating the beginning of the World War II. |
| 10 | 16 September 2019 | Ukraine | Kyiv | Meeting with president Volodymyr Zelenskyy and prime minister Oleksiy Honcharuk. Laying wreaths to the Memorial of the unknown soldier and commemorating the victims of the Famine in Ukraine. |
| 11 | 20–27 September 2019 | United States | New York City East Brunswick, NJ | Visit of the Czech national house in New York and taking part in conference organisated by Globsec on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of end of totality in the middle Europe. Attendance in the General Assembly of the United Nations and climate summit. Meeting with Slovaks in America at 42nd Slovak Heritage Festival, meeting with Secretary-General of the United Nations António Guterres. |
| 12 | 2–3 October 2019 | Czech Republic | Lány | Attendance at meeting of presidents of member countries of the Visegrád Group with presidents of Slovenia and Serbia, Borut Pahor and Aleksandar Vučić. |
| 13 | 20–23 October 2019 | Japan | Tokyo | Attendance at enthronement of emperor Naruhito, meeting with prime minister Shinzō Abe and getting to know new innovations in the field of environment. |
| 14 | 9 November 2019 | Germany | Berlin | Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of communist totalitarianism in the GDR. |
| 15 | 12 November 2019 | Czech Republic | Prague | Commemorating the 30th anniversary of the start of the Velvet revolution by laying wreaths to the memorial of the 17 November 1989 in Národní, Prague. Taking part in a discussion TV programme at ČT24 called Fokus Václava Moravce. |
| 16 | 3–4 December 2019 | UK | London Watford | Attendance at the solemn reception hosted by Queen Elizabeth II in Buckingham Palace followed by the reception hosted by prime minister Boris Johnson, both to celebrate the 70th anniversary of establishment of NATO. Attendance at the summit of the North Atlantic Council and giving a speech there. At the Brookwood Cemetery, commemorating general Ivan Otto Schwarz and Czechoslovak soldiers who died during the WWII. |

### 2020

| No. | Date | Country | Venue | Details |
| 17 | 23 January 2020 | Israel | Jerusalem | Commemorating Holocaust by attendance at the World Holocaust Forum organized to mark the 75th anniversary of liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Meeting with president Reuven Rivlin and visiting the sacred places of Israel. |
| 18 | 27 January 2020 | Poland | Oświęcim | Attendance at a ceremonial to mark the 75th anniversary of liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. |
| 19 | 16 February 2020 | Germany | Munich | Attendance at the Munich Security Conference. It was the first attendance of the Slovak head of state at this conference. |
| 20 | 10 March 2020 | Czech Republic | Hodonín Brno | Commemorating president Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk in his hometown Hodonín and meeting with mayor of Hodonín Libor Střecha. Meeting with Markéta Vaňková, mayor of Brno, and commemorating the 100th anniversary of adpoting of the Czechoslovak Constitution of 1920 on event in the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic with presidents of Slovak and Czech constitutional courts, Ivan Fiačan and Pavel Rychetský, president of the Senate Miloš Vystrčil, constitutional judges and other guests. President Miloš Zeman apologized for his absence. |
| 21 | 8 September 2020 | Czech Republic | Kroměříž | Addressing conference Ethics in Law, at Judicial Academy of Kroměříž. |
| 22 | 17 September 2020 | Austria | Vienna | Took part in Austrian World Summit. |
| 23 | 14 December 2020 | Vatican City | Vatican City | Visit included a private audience with Pope Francis, meeting with Secretary for Relations with States Paul Richard Gallagher and a meeting with Cardinal Jozef Tomko. The Pope and the President exchanged gifts, including some 10 000 PCR tests invented by Slovak scientists, a painting of Our Lady of Sorrows, Patroness of Slovakia and candles made by socially disadvantaged. Pope presented a bronze sculpture featuring a message of peace and two papal documents. |

### 2021

| No. | Date | Country | Venue | Details |
| 24 | 9–10 February 2021 | Poland | Hel | Commemorating the 30th anniversary of the establishment of the Visegrád Group. Meeting with president of Poland, president of the Czech Republic and president of Hungary |
| 25 | 10-11 May 2021 | Denmark | Copenhagen | Met with Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark, Mette Frederiksen, speak at the Copenhagen Democracy Summit and also boosting Danish-Slovak ties. |
| 26 | 14 June 2021 | Belgium | Brussels | Attended NATO summit. Met with US president Joe Biden for the first time. |
| 27 | 26 July 2021 | Austria | Salzburg | After the invitation from Austria's President, Alexander van der Bellen, Čaputová attended the opening concert of Salzburger Festspiele, a classical music festival. |
| 28 | 1-2 October 2021 | Germany | Aachen | Attended Charlemagne Prize 2021 awarding ceremony in Aachen City Hall. Invited to address the attendees of the ceremony. Met with Slovak compatriots living in Aachen. |
| 29 | 14 October 2021 | Slovenia | Ljubljana Bled | Official visit to the Republic of Slovenia. Met with the president of Slovenia, Borut Pahor, in Ljubljana, taking part in protocolar commemoration at the Monument to the Victims of All Wars. Later, they visited Bled and Triglav National Park. |
| 30 | 1-3 November 2021 | UK | Glasgow Edinburgh | Attending the climate summit COP26. Travelled with a commercial airline. After the end of the summit, Čaputová held a conference meeting in Edinburgh, discussing with Slovak students living and studying in Scotland. |
| 31 | 16 November 2021 | Czech Republic | Prague | Privately met with Czech president Miloš Zeman during his hospitalisation. Received the Silver Medal of the Speaker of the Senate. Laid flowers at the Velvet Revolution memorial on Národní tř. |
| 32 | 29 November 2021 | Hungary | Budapest | Attended summit of V4 presidents in Budapest. Received with honours at Heroes' Square and moved to the National Museum for the summit proper. This summit was not attended by Czech president as he tested positive for Covid-19. |
| 33 | 20 December 2021 | Latvia | Ādaži Airfield | Visited Slovak soldiers at Camp Ādaži in Latvia. |

### 2022

| No. | Date | Country | Venue | Details |
| 34 | 27-28 January 2022 | UAE | Dubai | Opened Slovak National Day at the EXPO World Exhibition in Dubai. |
| 35 | 25 February 2022 | Poland | Warsaw | Represented Slovakia at the extraordinary virtual summit of NATO on Friday 25 February 2022. |
| 36 | 24 March 2022 | Belgium | Brussels | Attended extraordinary NATO summit, which took place exactly a month after the start of the russian invasion of Ukraine. |
| 37 | 30 March 2022 | Moldova | Chișinău | Visited Moldova, where she met President Maia Sandu and Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilița in Chișinău. |
| 38 | 20-21 April 2022 | Italy | Naples Rome | Met with Italian president Sergio Mattarella in Rome. Participated in the ceremonial premiere of the opera Tosca at the San Carlo theater in Naples. Opened a Slovak-Italian business forum in Rome. |
| 39 | 19-21 May 2022 | Switzerland | Bern Zürich Geneva | This is the first time that a Slovak head of the state has travelled to Switzerland for a state visit. Met with Swiss president Ignazio Cassis in Bern. The President also visited the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, and there opened a Slovak-Swiss business forum with the Swiss president. In Geneva, she visited the CERN headquarters. |
| 40 | 27 May 2022 | Czech Republic | Prague | The President honored the memory of the heroes of Operation Anthropoid. Met with Czech president Miloš Zeman. |
| 41 | 31 May 2022 | Ukraine | Borodianka Irpin Kyiv | Visited the towns of Borodianka and Irpin nearby Kiev, where she "has seen with her very own eyes the traces of destruction by Russian soldiers". Later met with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy and delivered a speech before the deputies in the Ukrainian Parliament. |
| 42 | 28-30 June 2022 | Spain | Madrid | Attended NATO summit. The summit was of historical significance due to the adopted decisions, such as the agreement on the membership of Finland and Sweden in the Alliance. |
| 43 | 5-6 September 2022 | Greece | Athens | Met with Greek president Katerina Sakellaropoulou and the Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. The president also conferred the state decoration, Order of the White Cross of the first class on the Greek President, with the Greek party in turn conferring the supreme state decoration of the Hellenic Republic, the Grand Cross of the Order of the Redeemer on the Slovak head of state. |
| 44 | 7 September 2022 | North Macedonia | Skopje | Discussed the energy crisis with President Stevo Pendarovski and Prime Minister Dimitar Kovačevski. |
| 45 | 18-19 September 2022 | UK | London | Attended the state funeral of Elizabeth II. Met with the new monarch Charles III. |
| 46 | 20-22 September 2022 | United States | New York City | Participated in the 77th UN general assembly, met with UN Secretary-General António Guterres and Executive Director of UN-Women Sima Bahous. |
| 47 | 5-6 October 2022 | Malta | Valletta | Meeting of the presidents of the Arraiolos Group. Honored the memory of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. |
| 48 | 19 October 2022 | France | Strasbourg | Speech in the European Parliament, where she condemned the 2022 Bratislava shooting, declared an anti-LGBT hate crime and a terrorist attack. |
| 49 | 5 November 2022 | Germany | Frankfurt | Received the Freedom Award of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation in Frankfurt am Main. |
| 50 | 7-8 November 2022 | Egypt | Sharm El Sheikh | Attended the climate summit COP27. Met with Ursula von der Leyen, John Kerry and also with Kenyan president William Ruto. |
| 51 | 16 November 2022 | Czech Republic | Prague | Met with Czech president Miloš Zeman and commemorated the Velvet Revolution. |
| Last updated: 20 November 2022 |||||