# List of international trips made by Muammar Gaddafi

This is a list of international trips made by Muammar Gaddafi, the de facto leader of Libya, from 1969 to 2011. He was Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council of Libya from 1969 to 1977 and Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution from 1977 to 2011.

## 1970s

| Country | Areas visited | Date(s) | Details |
| Egypt | Cairo | 11 June 1970 | Working visit. Met with President Gamal Abdel Nasser. |
| Egypt | | August 1970 | |
| Egypt | Cairo | 21–27 September 1970 | Attended the Arab League emergency summit. |
| Egypt | Cairo | 1 October 1970 | Attended the state funeral of Gamal Abdel Nasser. |
| Syria | Damascus | 16 November 1970 | |
| Tunisia | Tunis | February 1971 | |
| Sudan | | February 1972 | |
| Egypt | | 1-4 May 1972 | |
| Tunisia | Tunis | December 1972 | |
| Egypt | Cairo | 7 February 1973 | |
| Algeria | Algiers | 5-9 September 1973 | Attended the 4th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement. |
| Malta | | 25-26 November 1973 | Working visit. |
| France | Paris | 23-24 November 1973 | Working visit. Met with President Georges Pompidou and Prime Minister Pierre Messmer. |
| Pakistan | Lahore | 22-24 February 1974 | Attended the 2nd Islamic Summit of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation. |
| Niger | | 7-11 March 1974 | |
| Egypt | Alexandria | 17-18 August 1974 | Working visit. Met with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Emirati President Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan. |
| Malta | Valletta | 19-23 December 1974 | Working visit. Opened the Libyan Arab Cultural Institute in Valletta. |
| Malta | | December 1975 | |
| Malta | | 21-25 May 1976 | |
| Yugoslavia | Belgrade | June 1976 | |
| Sri Lanka | Colombo | 16-19 August 1976 | Attended the 5th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement. |
| Soviet Union | Moscow | 6-9 December 1976 | Working visit. Met with General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, Premier Alexei Kosygin and Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Gromyko. |
| Togo | | 28 January-1 February 1977 | |
| Yugoslavia | Brijuni | 21-25 June 1977 | Working visit. Met with President Josip Broz Tito. |
| Algeria | Algiers | February 1978 | Attended the Steadfastness and Confrontation Front summit. |
| Bulgaria | Sofia | June 1978 | |
| Hungary | Budapest | June 1978 | |
| Poland | Warsaw | 1 July 1978 | Working visit. Met with First Secretary Edward Gierek and Chairman of the Council of State Henryk Jabłoński. |
| Iraq | Baghdad | 2–5 November 1978 | Attended the Arab League emergency summit. |
| Syria | | June 1979 | |
| Qatar | Doha | July 1979 | |

## 1980s

| Country | Areas visited | Date(s) | Details |
| Soviet Union | Moscow | 27-29 April 1981 | Working visit. Met with General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev. |
| Yugoslavia | Belgrade | 6 May 1981 | |
| Ethiopia | Addis Ababa | August 1981 | |
| Tunisia | | 25 January 1982 | Working visit. Met with Prime Minister Mohammed Mzali. |
| Austria | Vienna | 10-14 March 1982 | Working visit. |
| Poland | Warsaw | 15 September 1982 | Working visit. Met with First Secretary Wojciech Jaruzelski. |
| North Korea | Pyongyang | October 1982 | Working visit. Met with President Kim Il-sung and signed a ten-year friendship treaty. |
| Yugoslavia | | 2-6 November 1982 | |
| Tunisia | | 13-18 December 1982 | |
| Bulgaria | | 17-21 January 1983 | Working visit. Signed the Bulgarian-Libyan Friendship and Co-operation Treaty. |
| Romania | | 21-24 January 1983 | Working visit. Met with President Nicolae Ceaușescu. |
| Benin | | April 1983 | |
| Nigeria | | 25-28 April 1983 | |
| Soviet Union | Moscow | 10 October 1985 | Working visit. Met with General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. |
| Senegal | | December 1985 | |
| Zimbabwe | Harare | 1-6 September 1986 | Attended the 8th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement. |
| Algeria | Algiers | 7-9 June 1988 | Attended the Arab League emergency summit. |

## 1990s

| Country | Areas visited | Date(s) | Details |
| Iraq | Baghdad | 28-30 May 1990 | Attended the Arab League summit |
| Egypt | Cairo | 25-27 May 1996 | Met with President Hosni Mubarak. |
| Egypt | Cairo | 22-23 June 1996 | Attended the Arab League summit. |
| Nigeria | Abuja and Kano | 8-10 May 1997 | Met with head of state Sani Abacha. Celebrated the Islamic New Year. |
| Chad | | 2-5 May 1998 | |
| South Africa | Cape Town, Robben Island, Pretoria and Soweto | 13-15 June 1999 | Met with President Nelson Mandela. Attended the inauguration ceremony of Thabo Mbeki. Visited Robben Island. |
| Algeria | Algiers | 12-14 July 1999 | Attended the Organization of African Union summit. |
| Chad | | 1999 | |

## 2000s

| Country | Areas visited | Date(s) | Details |
| Saudi Arabia | Riyadh | 11-12 October 2000 | Working visit. Met with Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and King Fahd of Saudi Arabia. Discussed bilateral Libyan-Saudi Arabian relations and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. |
| Jordan | Amman | 27–28 March 2001 | Attended the Arab League summit. |
| Zambia | Lusaka | 9-11 July 2001 | Attended the final summit of the Organization of African Unity. |
| South Africa | Durban | 28 June-10 July 2002 | Attended the founding summit of the African Union. |
| Egypt | Sharm el-Sheikh | 1 March 2003 | Attended the Arab League summit. |
| Mozambique | Maputo | 2–12 July 2003 | Attended the African Union summit. |
| Belgium | Brussels | 27-29 April 2004 | Working visit. Met with President of the European Commission Romano Prodi and Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt. Visited the headquarters of the European Commission and the Palais d’Egmont. |
| Tunisia | Tunis | 22 May 2004 | Attended the Arab League summit. Withdrew from the summit following disagreements over its agenda. |
| Algeria | Algiers | 22-23 March 2005 | Attended the Arab League summit. |
| Sudan | Khartoum | 28-30 March 2006 | Attended the Arab League summit. |
| Mali | Timbuktu | April 2006 | Celebrated Mawlid. |
| Ghana | Accra | 25 June – 6 July 2007 | Attended the African Union summit. |
| Portugal | Lisbon | 8-9 December 2007 | Attended the 2nd European Union–African Union Summit. |
| France | Paris | 10-14 December 2007 | State visit. Met with President Nicolas Sarkozy. |
| Spain | Madrid | 15-18 December 2007 | State visit. Met with King Juan Carlos and Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. |
| Ethiopia | Addis Ababa | 25 January – 2 February 2008 | Attended the African Union summit. |
| Uganda | Kampala | 13-17 March 2008 | Attended the Afro-Arab youth festival. |
| Syria | Damascus | 28-29 March 2008 | Attended the Arab League summit. |
| Russia | Moscow | 31 October-2 November 2008 | State visit. Met with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. |
| Belarus | Minsk | 2-4 November 2008 | Met with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. |
| Ukraine | Kiev | 4-6 November 2008 | State visit. Met with Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. |
| Guinea | | January 2009 | |
| Ethiopia | Addis Ababa | 26 January – 3 February 2009 | Attended the African Union summit. |
| Guinea-Bissau | Bissau | 12-13 March 2009 | Met with acting President Raimundo Pereira. |
| Qatar | Doha | 31 March 2009 | Attended the Arab League summit. |
| Italy | Rome | 10-13 June 2009 | State visit. Met with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. |
| Italy | L’Aquila | 8-10 July 2009 | Attended the 35th G8 Summit. |
| Egypt | Sharm el-Sheikh | 11-16 July 2009 | Attended the 15th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement. |
| The Gambia | | 21-23 July 2009 | Attended the 15th anniversary celebration of the 1994 Gambian coup d'état. Met with President Yahya Jammeh. |
| United States | New York City | 22-24 September 2009 | First and only official visit to the United States. |
| United Nations | New York City | 23 September 2009 | Addressed the sixty-fourth session of the United Nations General Assembly. |
| Venezuela | Isla Margarita | 25-29 September 2009 | Attended the 2nd Africa-South America Summit. Met with President Hugo Chávez. |
| Italy | Rome | 16-18 November 2009 | Attended the United Nations World Summit on Food Security. |
| Mauritania | Nouakchott | 2009 | Working visit. Met with President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz and addressed the National Assembly. |

## 2010s

| Country | Areas visited | Date(s) | Details |
| Uganda | Kampala | 19-27 July 2010 | Attended the 15th African Union summit. |
| Italy | Rome | 29 August – 2 September 2010 | Met with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. |
| Sudan | Khartoum | 21 December 2010 | Met with President Omar al-Bashir. |