# List of international presidential trips made by Mahmoud Abbas

Mahmoud Abbas, the second Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the second President of the State of Palestine, has made international trips to countries since he assumed the presidency on 9 January 2005.

## 2005

| Country | Areas visited | Date(s) | Notes |
| Egypt | Cairo | 28–29 January | State visit. Met with President Hosni Mubarak. |
| Turkey | Ankara | 1–2 February | State visit. Met with President Ahmet Necdet Sezer, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. |
| Algeria | Algiers | 22–23 March | Working Visit. Attended the Arab League Summit. |
| Japan | Tokyo | 15–17 May | State visit. Met with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. |
| China | Beijing | 17–19 May | State visit. Met with President Hu Jintao. |
| Pakistan | Islamabad | 19–20 May | State visit. Met with President Pervez Musharraf |
| India | New Delhi | 20–21 May | State visit. Met with President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh |
| United States | Washington D.C. | 25–27 May | State visit. Met with President George W. Bush. |
| Mauritania | Nouakchott | 2–3 July | |
| Syria | Damascus | 6–7 July | State visit. Met with President Bashar al-Assad |
| Lebanon | Beirut | 8–10 July | State visit. Met with President Émile Lahoud |
| Saudi Arabia | Riyadh | 1–2 August | The funeral of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia |

## 2006

| Country | Areas visited | Date(s) | Notes |
| Sudan | Khartoum | 27–30 March | Working visit. Attended the Arab League Summit. |
| South Africa | Cape Town, Johannesburg | 29 March – 1 April | State visit. Met with President Thabo Mbeki |
| Tanzania | Zanzibar | 1 April | State visit. Met with President Jakaya Kikwete |
| Morocco | Casablanca | 12–14 April | State visit. Met with King Mohammed VI |
| Turkey | Ankara | 23–25 April | State visit. Met with President Ahmet Necdet Sezer, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan |
| Norway | Oslo | 25–26 April | State visit. Met with Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg |
| Finland | Helsinki | 26–27 April | State visit. Met with President Tarja Halonen |
| France | Paris | 27–29 April | State visit. Met with President Jacques Chirac |
| Jordan | Amman | 29 April – 1 May | State visit. Met with King Abdullah II, Prime Minister Marouf al-Bakhit |
| Russia | Sochi | 14–15 May | State visit. Met with President Vladimir Putin |
| France | Strasbourg | 15–17 May | Working visit. |
| Egypt | Sharm El Sheikh | 19–21 May | Working visit. Attended the World Economic Forum. |
| Tunisia | Tunis | 30 May – 1 June | State visit. Met with President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali |
| Algeria | Algiers | 26 July | Working visit. Met with Prime Minister Abdelaziz Belkhadem |
| Italy | Rome | 27 July | Working visit. Met with Prime Minister Romano Prodi |
| Egypt | Alexandria | 28–29 July | State visit. Met with President Hosni Mubarak |
| Saudi Arabia | Jeddah | 30 July | State visit. Met with King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia |
| Kuwait | Kuwait City | 30–31 July | Working visit. Met with Crown Prince Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah |
| Yemen | Sana'a | 5 August | State visit. Met with President Ali Abdullah Saleh |
| Sudan | Khartoum | 6 August | State visit. Met with President Omar al-Bashir |
| Tunisia | Tunis | 7–8 August | State visit. Met with President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali |
| Libya | Tripoli | 9 August | State visit. Met with Leader Muammar Gaddafi |
| Bahrain | Manama | 4–5 September | State visit. Met with King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa |
| United Arab Emirates | Abu Dhabi | 5 September | State visit. Met with King Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan |
| United States | New York City | 19–22 September | Working visit. Attended the Sixty-first session of the United Nations General Assembly, met Presidents of South Africa, France, the U.S., Prime Ministers of Italy, Malaysia. |

## 2009

| Country | Areas visited | Date(s) | Notes |
| Libya | Tripoli | 1–5 September | Attending the 40th anniversary of the Libyan Revolution |

## 2011

| Date | Country | Location | Details |
| 28–29 June 2011 | Azerbaijan | Baku | |

## 2015

| Date | Country | Location | Details |
| 10–11 February 2015 | Sweden | Stockholm | Met with King Carl XVI Gustaf and Prime Minister Stefan Löfven and opened the Palestinian embassy |
| 12 February 2015 | Belgium | Brussels | Working visit. Met with EU leaders |
| 14 February 2015 | Luxembourg | Luxembourg City | Met with Luxembourg leaders |
| 9 March 2015 | Switzerland | Bern | Met with President Simonetta Sommaruga |
| 7 April 2015 | Qatar | Doha | |
| 16 May 2015 | Holy See | Vatican City | Met with Pope Francis |
| 22 September 2015 | Russia | Moscow | |
| 30 September 2015 | USA | New York | |
| 28 October 2015 | Switzerland | Geneva | |
| 20 December 2015 | Greece | Athens | Met with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras |

## 2016

| Date | Country | Location | Details |
| 14–17 February 2016 | Japan | Tokyo | Working Visit. Met with Japanese leaders |
| 21 February 2016 | Jordan | Amman | |
| 15 April 2016 | Russia | Moscow | Met with President Vladimir Putin |
| 25 May 2016 | South Africa | Cape Town | Met with President Jacob Zuma |
| 28 May 2016 | Egypt | Cairo | Met with President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi |
| 23 June 2016 | Belgium | Brussels | Met with European Council President Donald Tusk |
| 6–7 September 2016 | Poland | Warsaw | |
| 14–15 September 2016 | Mauritania | Nouakchott | |
| 22 September 2016 | USA | New York | |
| 24 October 2016 | Turkey | Ankara | Met with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan |

## 2017

| Date | Country | Location | Details |
| 13 January 2017 | Holy See | Vatican City | |
| 30 January–1 February 2017 | Pakistan | Islamabad | |
| 1–3 February 2017 | Bangladesh | Dhaka | |
| 23–25 February 2017 | Lebanon | Beirut | |
| 27 March 2017 | Belgium | Brussels | |
| 29 April 2017 | Egypt | | |
| 30 April 2017 | Jordan | | |
| 3 May 2017 | USA | Washington D.C. | |
| 11 May 2017 | Russia | Moscow | |
| 15–18 May 2017 | India | New Delhi | |
| 17 July 2017 | China | | |
| 27–29 August 2017 | Turkey | | |
| 11 November 2017 | Kuwait | Kuwait City | |
| 10 December 2017 | Egypt | Cairo | |
| 12 December 2017 | Turkey | Istanbul | Attended the Sixth Extraordinary Session of the Islamic Summit |
| 19 December 2017 | Saudi Arabia | Riyadh | |
| 22 December 2017 | France | Paris | |

## 2018

| Date | Country | Location | Details |
| 29 January 2018 | Jordan | Amman | |
| 20 February 2018 | USA | New York | |
| 7–8 May 2018 | Venezuela | Caracas | |
| 9–10 May 2018 | Chile | Havana | |
| 10–12 May 2018 | Cuba | Santiago | |
| 13 May 2018 | India | New Delhi | |
| 14–15 July 2018 | Russia | Moscow | Held talks with President Vladimir Putin |
| 21–27 September 2018 | USA | New York | Met with state leaders and addressed the 73rd session of the General Assembly |
| 21 October 2018 | Oman | Muscat | |
| 2 December 2018 | Italy | Rome | |

## 2019

| Date | Country | Location | Details |
| March 2019 | Iraq | Baghdad | |
| April 2019 | Egypt | Cairo | |
| May 2019 | Qatar | Doha | |
| September 2019 | Norway | Oslo | |
| September 2019 | USA | New York | Met with French President Emmanuel Macron |
| October 2019 | Saudi Arabia | Riyadh | Met with King Salman bin Abdulaziz |
| October 2019 | Japan | Tokyo | Met with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe |

## 2020

| Date | Country | Location |
| November 2020 | Jordan | Amman |
| November 2020 | Egypt | Cairo |
| December 2020 | Qatar | Doha |

## 2021

| Date | Country |
| July 2021 | Turkey |
| September 2021 | Egypt |
| October 2021 | Italy |
| November 2021 | Russia |
| November 2021 | Qatar |
| December 2022 | Algeria |
| December 2021 | Tunisia |

## 2022

| Date | Country | Location | Details |
| 9 January 2022 | Egypt | Cairo | |
| 27 April 2022 | Jordan | Amman | |
| 15 May 2022 | UAE | Abu Dhabi | Offer condolences on the death of Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan |
| 26 June 2022 | Jordan | Amman | |
| 5 July 2022 | Algeria | | Attended the commemoration of the 60th anniversary of Algeria's independence |
| 19 July 2022 | Romania | Bucharest | |
| 20 July 2022 | France | Paris | Met with President Emmanuel Macron |
| 16 August 2022 | Germany | Berlin | Met with Chancellor Olaf Scholz |
| 22–24 August 2022 | Turkey | Ankara | State visit. Met with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan |
| 23 September 2022 | United States | New York | Addressed the General Assembly |
| 13 October 2022 | Kazakhstan | Astana | Participated in the CICA summit |
| 1 November 2022 | Algeria | Algiers | Participated in the 2022 Arab League summit |

## 2023

| Date | Country | Location | Details |
| 19 May | Saudi Arabia | Jeddah | Arab League Summit |
| 25 July | Turkey | Ankara | Meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh |
| 29 July | Egypt | Cairo | Meeting of the General Secretaries of the Palestinian factions and held talks with President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi |
| 13 August | Egypt | Cairo | Summit with President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and Abdullah II |
| 23 August | Turkey | Ankara | Meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan |
| 17–21 September | United States | New York | He delivered a speech before the United Nations General Assembly |
| 10–11 November | Saudi Arabia | Riyadh | Attended the emergency Arab-Islamic summit |

## 2024

| Date | Country | Location | Details |
| 27–29 April | Saudi Arabia | Riyadh | Attended a World Economic Forum meeting and met with the Crown prince |
| 16–17 May | Bahrain | Manama | Arab League summit |
| 13 August | Russia | Moscow | Meeting with President Vladimir Putin |
| 14–15 August | Turkey | Ankara | Meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and addressed the Grand National Assembly of Turkey |
| 26 August | Saudi Arabia | Riyadh | Met with the Crown prince |
| 17–18 September | Spain | Madrid | |
| 26 September | United States | New York | |
| 22–24 October | Russia | Kazan | Attended the 16th BRICS summit |
| 3–4 November | Egypt | Cairo | Attend the World Urban Forum |
| 10–12 November | Saudi Arabia | Riyadh | Arab-Islamic summit |