List of international presidential trips made by Mahmoud Abbas

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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 15 January 2005.

The number of visits per country where President Abbas traveled are:

  • One visit to Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Chile, Cuba, Finland, Germany, Greece, Kazakhstan, Luxembourg, Morocco, Oman, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Tanzania, the United Kingdom, Venezuela, and Yemen
  • Two visits to Bahrain, China, the Holy See, Iraq, Kuwait, Mauritania, Norway, Pakistan, South Africa, Sudan, Switzerland, Syria, and the United Arab Emirates
  • Three visits to Belgium, India, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Libya, and Tunisia
  • Five visits to Algeria, France, and Qatar
  • Seven visits to Jordan
  • Nine visits to Russia, and Saudi Arabia
  • Eleven visits to the United States
  • Twelve visits to Turkey
  • Fifteen visits to Egypt
World map highlighting countries visited by Mahmoud Abbas during his presidency, as of January 2026.
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2005

Country Areas visited Date(s) Notes
Egypt Cairo 28–29 January State visit. Met with President Hosni Mubarak.[1]
Turkey Ankara 1–2 February State visit. Met with President Ahmet Necdet Sezer, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.[2]
Algeria Algiers 22–23 March Working Visit. Attended the Arab League Summit.[3]
Japan Tokyo 15–17 May State visit. Met with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.[4]
China Beijing 17–19 May State visit. Met with President Hu Jintao.[5]
Pakistan Islamabad 19–20 May State visit. Met with President Pervez Musharraf[6][7]
India New Delhi 20–21 May State visit. Met with President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh[8]
United States Washington D.C. 25–27 May State visit. Met with President George W. Bush.[9]
Mauritania Nouakchott 2–3 July [10]
Ba'athist Syria Damascus 6–7 July State visit. Met with President Bashar al-Assad[11]
Lebanon Beirut 8–10 July State visit. Met with President Émile Lahoud[12]
Saudi Arabia Riyadh 1–2 August The funeral of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia[13]

2006

Country Areas visited Date(s) Notes
Sudan Khartoum 27–30 March Working visit. Attended the Arab League Summit.[14]
South Africa Cape Town, Johannesburg 29 March – 1 April State visit. Met with President Thabo Mbeki[15]
Tanzania Zanzibar 1 April State visit. Met with President Jakaya Kikwete[15]
Morocco Casablanca 12–14 April State visit. Met with King Mohammed VI[15]
Turkey Ankara 23–25 April State visit. Met with President Ahmet Necdet Sezer, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan[16]
Norway Oslo 25–26 April State visit. Met with Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg[17]
Finland Helsinki 26–27 April State visit. Met with President Tarja Halonen[18]
France Paris 27–29 April State visit. Met with President Jacques Chirac[19]
Jordan Amman 29 April – 1 May State visit. Met with King Abdullah II, Prime Minister Marouf al-Bakhit[15]
Russia Sochi 14–15 May State visit. Met with President Vladimir Putin[15]
France Strasbourg 15–17 May Working visit.[15]
Egypt Sharm El Sheikh 19–21 May Working visit. Attended the World Economic Forum.[20]
Tunisia Tunis 30 May – 1 June State visit. Met with President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali[21]
Algeria Algiers 26 July Working visit. Met with Prime Minister Abdelaziz Belkhadem[22]
Italy Rome 27 July Working visit. Met with Prime Minister Romano Prodi[22]
Egypt Alexandria 28–29 July State visit. Met with President Hosni Mubarak[23]
Saudi Arabia Jeddah 30 July State visit. Met with King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia[24]
Kuwait Kuwait City 30–31 July Working visit. Met with Crown Prince Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah[25]
Yemen Sana'a 5 August State visit. Met with President Ali Abdullah Saleh[26]
Sudan Khartoum 6 August State visit. Met with President Omar al-Bashir[22]
Tunisia Tunis 7–8 August State visit. Met with President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali[27]
Libya Tripoli 9 August State visit. Met with Leader Muammar Gaddafi[22]
Bahrain Manama 4–5 September State visit. Met with King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa[28]
United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi 5 September State visit. Met with King Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan[22]
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.[22]

2009

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

2010

Country Areas visited Date(s) Notes
Libya Sirte 27 March Attending the 2010 Arab League summit[29]

2011

Date Country Location Details
28–29 June 2011 Azerbaijan Baku [30]

2012

Date Country Location Details
11 December 2012 Turkey Ankara [31]

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[32]
12 February 2015 Belgium Brussels Working visit. Met with EU leaders
14 February 2015 Luxembourg Luxembourg City Met with Luxembourg leaders[33]
9 March 2015  Switzerland Bern Met with President Simonetta Sommaruga[34]
7 April 2015 Qatar Doha
16 May 2015 Holy See Vatican City Met with Pope Francis[35]
22 September 2015 Russia Moscow [36]
30 September 2015 USA New York
28 October 2015  Switzerland Geneva
20 December 2015 Greece Athens Met with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras[37]

2016

Date Country Location Details
14–17 February 2016 Japan Tokyo Working Visit. Met with Japanese leaders[38]
21 February 2016 Jordan Amman
15 April 2016 Russia Moscow Met with President Vladimir Putin[39]
25 May 2016 South Africa Cape Town Met with President Jacob Zuma[40]
28 May 2016 Egypt Cairo Met with President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi[41]
23 June 2016 Belgium Brussels Met with European Council President Donald Tusk[42]
6–7 September 2016 Poland Warsaw [43]
14–15 September 2016 Mauritania Nouakchott
22 September 2016 USA New York [44]
24 October 2016 Turkey Ankara Met with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

2017

Date Country Location Details
13 January 2017 Holy See Vatican City [45]
30 January–1 February 2017 Pakistan Islamabad
1–3 February 2017 Bangladesh Dhaka
23–25 February 2017 Lebanon Beirut [46]
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 [47]
17 July 2017 China
27–29 August 2017 Turkey
11 November 2017 Kuwait Kuwait City [48]
10 December 2017 Egypt Cairo [49]
12 December 2017 Turkey Istanbul Attended the Sixth Extraordinary Session of the Islamic Summit[50]
19 December 2017 Saudi Arabia Riyadh [51]
22 December 2017 France Paris [52]

2018

Mahmoud Abbas and Karin Kneissl in Brüssels, January 2018.
President Abbas during his visit to Chile, May 2018
Date Country Location Details
29 January 2018 Jordan Amman
20 February 2018 USA New York
7–8 May 2018 Venezuela Caracas [citation needed]
9–10 May 2018 Chile Santiago
10–12 May 2018 Cuba Havana
13 May 2018 India New Delhi
14–15 July 2018 Russia Moscow Held talks with President Vladimir Putin[53]
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 [54]

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[55]
October 2019 Saudi Arabia Riyadh Met with King Salman bin Abdulaziz[56]
October 2019 Japan Tokyo Met with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe[57]

2020

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

2021

Date Country Location Details
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 [58]
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[59]
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[60]
29 July Egypt Cairo Meeting of the General Secretaries of the Palestinian factions and held talks with President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi[61]
13 August Egypt Cairo Summit with President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and Abdullah II[citation needed]
23 August Turkey Ankara Meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan[citation needed]
17–21 September United States New York He delivered a speech before the United Nations General Assembly[62]
10–11 November Saudi Arabia Riyadh Attended the emergency Arab-Islamic summit[63]


2024

2025

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