# List of international trips made by Saddam Hussein

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This is a list of international trips made by Saddam Hussein, the former vice president and president of Iraq, between 1968 and 2003. Saddam made most of his visits during his tenure as vice president, as he was representing Iraq on several international meetings. After the Gulf War, Saddam reduced his foreign visits.

## 1960s
### 1969

* Soviet Union (1969) — met with Yevgeny Primakov

## 1970s
### 1970

* Lebanon — secret summit and met Michel Aflaq

### 1971

* Syria — met with Hafez al-Assad and discussed King Hussein's plan of Arab Federation.

### 1972

* Soviet Union — a diplomatic visit on February 24, 1972.
* France — first visit to France on June 1972.

### 1974

* Soviet Union — visited Moscow on March 14, 1974 at the invitation of the CC CPSU and the Soviet government.
* Morocco — attended the Arab summit in Rabat, Morocco on October 27, 1974.
* Spain
* India

### 1975

* Hungary
* Algeria — attended OPEC summit and signed peace agreement with Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
* Iran — first visit to Iran after signing the peace treaty.
* France
* Cuba
* Libya
* Tunisia
* Bulgaria
* Romania — met Nicolae Ceaușescu.
* East Germany

### 1976

* Iran — visited and prayed at the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad
* Algeria
* Soviet Union — held talks with Soviet Prime Minister Alexei Kosygin and other Soviet officials

### 1977

* France
* Soviet Union
* Kuwait

### 1978

* Soviet Union
* Cuba

### 1979

* Syria
* Cuba — addressed the 6th Non-aligned Summit Meeting.
* Tunisia

## 1980s
### 1980

* Sudan
* Jordan — attended Arab League summit in Amman.
* Saudi Arabia – secured Saudi support for the Iraqi invasion of Iran.
* Yugoslavia

### 1981

* Saudi Arabia — attended Islamic conference at Taif.

### 1982

* Morocco — attended the Arab League summit in Fez for Saudi King Fahd's peace plan between Israel and Palestine.

### 1985

* Soviet Union
* Morocco — summit

### 1986

* Soviet Union (1986) — alongside Tariq Aziz met Andrei Gromyko, Mikhail Gorbachev and held negotiations with Eduard Shevardnadze.
* France

### 1987

* Jordan — attended Arab League summit with Taha Yassin Ramadan and Tariq Aziz.

### 1988

* Saudi Arabia — visited Riyadh and performed pilgrimage (Hajj) in Mecca and Medina.
* Morocco — attended 1988 Arab League summit
* Morocco — attended emergency at summit at Casablanca.
* Egypt — first visit to Egypt since assuming the presidency.

### 1989

* North Yemen — Arab Cooperation Council meeting in Sanaa.
* Morocco

## 1990s
### 1990

* Kuwait – observed his troops in the country following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.