# List of international presidential trips made by Hafez al-Assad

This is a list of international presidential trips made by Hafez al-Assad, president of Syria, during his presidency between 1971 and 2000.

## 1970s
### 1971

| Country | Location | Date | Purpose | Ref. |
| Libya | Benghazi | 17 April 1971 | Signing of the agreement to establish the Federation of Arab Republics between Egypt, Libya and Syria. | |

### 1972

| Country | Location | Date | Purpose |
| Kuwait | Kuwait City | 22 April 1972 | |
| Egypt | Mersa Matruh | 19 June 1972 | Attended a meeting of the Federation of Arab Republics |
| Soviet Union | Moscow | July 1972 | |
| Egypt | Cairo | 9 July 1972 | |

### 1973

| Country | Location | Date | Purpose |
| Egypt | Cairo | 7 February 1973 | Meeting with president Anwar Sadat and Colonel Muammar Gaddafi |
| Egypt | | April 1973 | |
| Soviet Union | Moscow | 7 May 1973 | |

### 1974

| Country | Location | Date | Purpose |
| Lebanon | Beirut | 18 January 1974 | Meeting with president Suleiman Frangieh |
| Pakistan | Lahore | 22–24 February 1974 | Attended the Organisation of the Islamic Conference Summit |
| Yugoslavia | Belgrade | 15 August 1974 | Meeting with President Josip Broz Tito |
| Romania | Bucharest | 9 September 1974 | Meeting with president Nicolae Ceaușescu |
| Korea DPR | Pyongyang | September 1974 | |
| Morocco | Rabat | 30 October 1974 | Attended the 7th Arab Summit Conference |

### 1975

| Country | Location | Date | Purpose |
| Lebanon | Beirut | 7 January 1975 | Meeting with president Suleiman Frangieh |
| Saudi Arabia | Riyad | 24 April 1975 | Attended the Arab Summit Conference |
| Jordan | Amman | 10 June 1975 | Meeting with Hussein bin Talal |
| Czechoslovakia | Prague, Karlovy Vary | 8–11 September 1975 | Meeting with Gustáv Husák |
| Soviet Union | Moscow | 10 October 1975 | |
| Iran | Tehran | December 1975 | |
| Jordan | Amman | 9–10 December 1975 | Meeting with Hussein bin Talal |

### 1976

| Country | Location | Date | Purpose |
| France | Paris | 17–18 June 1976 | Meeting with president Valéry Giscard d'Estaing |
| Yugoslavia | Belgrade | June 1976 | |
| Romania | Bucharest | 27 June 1976 | |
| Saudi Arabia | Riyadh | 16–18 October 1976 | Attended a six-party summit, which included the leaders of Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, the Palestine Liberation Organization, and Kuwait to discuss the situation in Lebanon |
| Jordan | Amman | 6–7 December 1976 | Meeting with Hussein bin Talal |

### 1977

| Country | Location | Date | Purpose |
| Sudan | Khartoum | 27 February 1977 | Attended trilateral summit with Sudanese president Gaafar Nimeiry and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat |
| Soviet Union | Moscow | 19 April 1977 | Meeting with General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev |
| Switzerland | Geneva | 9 May 1977 | Meeting with U.S. president Jimmy Carter |
| Libya | Tripoli | 2 December 1977 | Attended a summit with the participation of the leaders of Algeria, Iraq, Libya, the PLO and South Yemen to discuss Sadat's initiative |
| Saudi Arabia | Riyadh | 9 December 1977 | Meeting with Crown Prince Fahd |
| United Arab Emirates | Abu Dhabi | 12 December 1977 | Meeting with Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan |

### 1978

| Country | Location | Date | Purpose |
| Soviet Union | Moscow | 20–22 February 1978 | |
| India | New Delhi | 18 April 1978 | Meeting with Prime Minister Indira Gandhi |
| West Germany | Bonn | 12 September 1978 | |
| East Germany | | 1 October 1978 | |
| Iraq | Baghdad | 25–27 October 1978 | Working visit |
| Iraq | Baghdad | 2 November 1978 | Attended the Arab Summit Conference |
| Soviet Union | Moscow | 6 October 1978 | |
| Hungary | Budapest | 29 November 1978 | |

### 1979

| Country | Location | Date | Purpose |
| Iraq | Baghdad | 16–17 June 1979 | Meeting with president Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr |
| Algeria | Algiers | 3 July 1979 | Meeting with president Chadli Benjedid |
| Soviet Union | Moscow | 15–18 October 1979 | |

## 1980s
### 1980

| Country | Location | Date | Purpose |
| Yugoslavia | Belgrade | 4 May 1980 | Attended the state funeral of Josip Broz Tito |
| Libya | Tripoli | | Held unification talks with Muammar Gaddafi |
| Soviet Union | Moscow | 8–10 October 1980 | Meeting with General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev |

### 1981

| Country | Location | Date | Purpose | Ref. |
| Saudi Arabia | Mecca & Taif | 25–29 January 1981 | Attended the Organisation of the Islamic Conference Summit | |

### 1982

| Country | Location | Date | Purpose | Ref. |
| Saudi Arabia | Taif | 5 July 1982 | Meeting with King Fahd | |

### 1983

| Country | Location | Date | Purpose | Ref. |
| India | New Delhi | 1983 | | |
| Saudi Arabia | Jeddah | 9 May 1983 | Meeting with King Fahd | |

### 1985

| Country | Location | Date | Purpose | Ref. |
| Soviet Union | Moscow | 19 June 1985 | Meeting with Chairman Mikhail Gorbachev | |

### 1986

| Country | Location | Date | Purpose | Ref. |
| Jordan | Amman | 5 May 1986 | Meeting with Hussein bin Talal | |
| Greece | Athens | 26–28 May 1986 | State visit | |

### 1987

| Country | Location | Date | Purpose |
| Kuwait | Kuwait City | 26–29 January 1987 | Attended the Organisation of the Islamic Conference Summit |
| Soviet Union | Moscow | 27–29 April 1987 | Meeting with Chairman Mikhail Gorbachev |
| Bulgaria | Sofia | October 1987 | Meeting with Todor Zhivkov |

## 1990s
### 1990

| Country | Location | Date | Purpose | Ref. |
| Egypt | Cairo | 14–16 July 1990 | Meeting with president Hosni Mubarak | |
| Egypt | Cairo | 9 August 1990 | Attended the Arab Summit Conference on the Iraqi-Kuwaiti crisis | |

### 1992

| Country | Location | Date | Purpose | Ref. |
| Kuwait | Kuwait City | 20 April 1992 | Meeting with Emir Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah | |

### 1994

| Country | Location | Date | Purpose | Ref. |
| Egypt | Cairo | 4–5 April 1994 | Meeting with president Hosni Mubarak | |

### 1997

| Country | Location | Date | Purpose | Ref. |
| Iran | Tehran | 1 August 1997 | State visit | |
| Iran | Tehran | 9–11 December 1997 | Attended the Organisation of the Islamic Conference Summit | |

### 1998

| Country | Location | Date | Purpose | Ref. |
| France | Paris | 18 July 1998 | Meeting with president Jacques Chirac | |

### 1999

| Country | Location | Date | Purpose | Ref. |
| Jordan | Amman | February | Attended the funeral of Hussein bin Talal | |
| Russia | Moscow | 7 July 1999 | Meeting with president Boris Yeltsin | |

## 2000s
### 2000

| Country | Location | Date | Purpose | Ref. |
| Switzerland | Geneva | 26 March 2000 | Meeting with US president Bill Clinton | |