List of international trips made by Saddam Hussein

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Foreign visits by Saddam Hussein

This is a list of international trips made by Saddam Hussein, the former vice president and president of Iraq, from 1968 until his overthrow in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. As vice president, he made state visits to numerous countries and represented Iraq at several events. Following his accession to the seat of presidency and coinciding the Iran–Iraq War, Saddam attended various Arab League summits and global conferences. After the Gulf War, Saddam reduced his foreign visits, due to security reasons and post-war impact.[1][2][3]

The number of visits per country where Saddam Hussein traveled are:

  • One visit to Bulgaria, East Germany, Egypt, Hungary, Lebanon, North Yemen, Romania, Spain, Sudan and Yugoslavia
  • Two visits to Algeria, Iran, Jordan, Kuwait, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Iran and Tunisia
  • Three visits to Cuba
  • Four visits to France and Saudi Arabia
  • Six visits to Morocco
  • Eight visits to the Soviet Union

1960s

1969

Dates Country Areas visited Details
1 Soviet Union Moscow First meeting with Yevgeny Primakov
2 Libya Libya Benghazi Diplomatic visit, met with Muammar Gaddafi
3 21–23 December 1969 Morocco Rabat Attended the Arab League Summit in Rabat

1970s

1970

Dates Country Areas visited Details Image
4 21 March 1971 Lebanon Beirut Attended a secret meeting along with his wife Sajida Talfah, of the Ba'ath Party leadership including Michel Aflaq and Salah al-Din al-Bitar. Dignitaries were Assistant General Secretary Shibli al-Ayssami, Iraqi president Ahmad Hasan al-Bakr and others[4]
Soviet Union

1971

Dates Country Areas visited Details
5 21 March 1971 Syria Damascus Met with Hafez al-Assad on King Hussein's plan of Arab Federation. Dignitaries were Hafez al-Assad, Mahmoud al-Ayyubi, Mustafa Tlass, Murtada al-Hadithi, and Saadoun Ghaidan,[5][6][7]
6 November 1971 Soviet Union Moscow First visit to the Soviet Union, met with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin. Delegation included Alexei Kosygin, Abdul Khaliq al-Samarra'i, Abdul Karim al-Shaikhly, and Muhammad Fadhil[8]

1972

Dates Country Areas visited Details
7 24 February 1972 Soviet Union Moscow Diplomatic visit, significantly visited the grave of Joseph Stalin[9][10]
8 27 March 1972 Egypt Cairo Proposal for Union of Arab Republics instead of King Hussein's plan of King Hussein's federation plan and discussed about Iraqi support for Syria and Egypt in the Yom Kippur War against Israel[11]
9 19–21 June 1972 France Paris First visit to France[12][13][14]

1973

Dates Country Areas visited Details
10 24 March 1973 Soviet Union Moscow Visited Moscow.[15]
13–15 May 1973 Afghanistan Kabul Attended Non-Aligned Standing Committee Conference.[16]

1974

Dates Country Areas visited Details
10 14 March 1974 Soviet Union Moscow Visited Moscow at the invitation of the CC CPSU and the Soviet government.[15]
11 25–28 Mar 1974 India India New Delhi Diplomatic visit[17]
12 June 1974 Algeria Algiers State visit[18][19][20]
13 27 October 1974 Morocco Rabat Attended Arab League summit[21]
14 October 1974 United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi, Dubai Diplomatic visit[22]
15 November 1974 Saudi Arabia Riyadh Diplomatic visit, held talks with King Faisal and Crown Prince Fahd.[23]
16 10–12 December 1974 Spain Granada, Toledo, Cordoba, Madrid Caudillo of Spain, Francisco Franco, invited Saddam to Madrid and visited Granada, Córdoba and Toledo.[24]

1975

Dates Country Areas visited Details Image
17 11 February 1975 Kuwait Kuwait City Diplomatic visit[25]
18 3–5 March 1975 France Paris Notably had a lunch at Hotel Matignon during his meeting with the French Prime minister Jacques Chirac.[9][10]
19 6 March 1975 Algeria Algiers Attended OPEC summit and signed peace agreement with Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.[26]
Mauritania Nouakchott [27]
20 11 March 1975 Tunisia Tunis Diplomatic visit[28]
26 March 1975 Saudi Arabia Riyadh Attending funeral of King Faisal[29]
21 14-15 April 1975 Soviet Union Moscow Diplomatic visit[30]
22 29 April 1975 Iran Tehran First diplomatic visit to Iran[17]
23 Libya Tripoli Diplomatic visit[26]
24 5 May 1975 Bulgaria Sofia Diplomatic visit[26]
25 5—7 May 1975 Romania Bucharest Three-day Diplomatic visit[26][31]
26 7–9 May 1975 Hungary Budapest Two-day diplomatic visit[32][33][34]
27 12 May 1975 East Germany East Berlin Diplomatic visit[26][35]
28 6–8 September 1975 France Paris Visit to nuclear sites and signed agreement with France on building nuclear sites in Iraq[24][36]
20–23 November 1975 Spain Madrid Attended funeral of Francisco Franco

1976

Dates Country Areas visited Details Image
29 03 January 1976 Iran Mashhad Visited and prayed at the Imam Reza Shrine in Mashhad[37][38]
30 19 April 1975 Kuwait Kuwait City Diplomatic visit[39]
25 October 1975 Egypt Cairo Attended Arab League summit
31 13 December 1976 Soviet Union Moscow Diplomatic visit, held talks with Prime Minister Alexei Kosygin and other Soviet officials[40]
32 16 December 1976 Algeria Algiers Diplomatic visit[41]
France Diplomatic visit[42]


1977

Dates Country Areas visited Details
33 1–15 February 1977 Soviet Union Moscow Fifth visit to the Soviet Union, held talks with Alexei Kosygin on bilateral relations[43][37][38]
34 13 August 1977 Kuwait Kuwait City Diplomatic visit[44]
2 December 1977 Libya Tripoli Attended a summit with the participation of the leaders of Algeria, Iraq, Libya, the PLO and South Yemen to discuss Sadat's initiative
35 13 December 1977 France Paris Signed agreement under which Iraq purchased approximately 80 French Mirage aircraft[45]

1978

Dates Country Areas visited Details
36 October 1978 Cuba Havana Diplomatic visit, included tours of cement and textile factories, and the signing of bilateral agreements[46][47]
37 11–13 December 1978 Soviet Union Moscow Diplomatic visit, held talks with Alexei Kosygin[48][49]
29 December 1978 Algeria Algiers Attended funeral of Houari Boumédiène

1979

Dates Country Areas visited Details Image
38 30 January 1979 Syria Damascus Unification talks between Syria and Iraq[50]
Jordan [51]
39 23 November 1979 Algeria Algiers Diplomatic visit and visiting the grave of Houari Boumédiène[52]
40 3–9 September 1979 Cuba Havana Attended and briefly addressed the 6th Non-aligned Summit Meeting in Havana[53][54][55]
41 20 November 1979 Tunisia Tunis Attended the Arab League summit[56]

1980s

1980

Dates Country Areas visited Details Image
42 8 May 1980 Yugoslavia Belgrade Attended the state funeral of Josip Broz Tito along with Sa'dun Hammadi, King Carl XVI Gustaf, Ola Ullsten, Patrick Hillery and Bruno Kreisky
43 5 August 1980 Saudi Arabia Riyadh Secured Saudi support for the Iraqi invasion of Iran and first presidential diplomatic visit to Saudi Arabia[57][58]
44 25-27 November 1980 Jordan Amman Attended Arab League summit in Amman, mainly focused on the Iran–Iraq War[53][54][55]

1981

Dates Country Areas visited Details
45 7–9 August 1981 Saudi Arabia Taif, Mecca Attended Islamic conference at Taif and Mecca, focusing on the Iran–Iraq War and the Saddam briefly addressed the summit[59][60]
46 25 November 1981 Morocco Fez Convened on 25 November 1981, but was suspended and later resumed in 1981[61]

1982

Dates Country Areas visited Details Image
13 June 1982 Saudi Arabia Mecca Attended the funeral of King Khalid
47 6–9 September 1982 Morocco Fez Attended the Arab League summit in Fez, focusing on King Fahd's peace plan between Israel and Palestine and the prolonging Iran–Iraq War[62][63]

1983

Dates Country Areas visited Details
48 7–12 March 1983 India New Delhi Attended the 7th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement and survived an assassination attempt by the Islamic Dawa Party as per local sources. Dignitaries included Indira Gandhi, Zia-ul-Haq, and Yasser Arafat.[64]

1984

Dates Country Areas visited Details
49 7–9 August 1984 Oman Muscat Diplomatic visit and held talks with Sultan Qaboos bin Said in Muscat on Iran–Iraq War.[65]

1985

Dates Country Areas visited Details
13 March 1985 Soviet Union Moscow Attended funeral of Konstantin Chernenko
50 7–9 August 1985 Morocco Casablanca Attended the Arab League Extraordinary summit on Jordanian-Palestinian peace initiative.[66][65][67][68]
51 15–17 December 1985 Soviet Union Moscow Diplomatic visit[69]

1986

Dates Country Areas visited Details
52 Oman Muscat Diplomatic visit[65]
53 15 November 1986 Soviet Union Moscow Held negotiations with Eduard Shevardnadze.[70][71]
54 Unknown Saudi Arabia Medina [72]
55 France Diplomatic visit[73]

1987

Dates Country Areas visited Details Image
56 Unknown Saudi Arabia Diplomatic visit.[74]
4 May Jordan Al-Jafr Held talks with Syrian president Hafez al-Assad, to mediate Iraq-Syria conflict.[75][76]
57 8–11 November 1987 Jordan Amman Attended the 16th Arab League Summit in Amman, Jordan[77][78]

1988

Dates Country Areas visited Details Image
58 23-26 May 1988 Saudi Arabia Mecca, Medina Performed Umrah and pilgrimage (Hajj) in Mecca and Medina[79]
59 7–9 June 1988 Algeria Algiers Attended the Arab League summit[80]
24 July 1988 Saudi Arabia Riyadh Diplomatic visit[81]
60 28 November 1988 Egypt Cairo First visit to Egypt since assuming the presidency.[70]

1989

Dates Country Areas visited Details Image
59 23-26 May 1989 Morocco Casablanca Attended the Extraordinary Arab League summit in Casablanca.[82]
60 25 September 1989 North Yemen Sanaa Arab Cooperation Council meeting[23]
9 November 1989 Vietnam [83]
Jordan
61 December 1989 Egypt Alexandria 2nd round of Arab Cooperation Council meeting in Alexandria[84]

1990s

1990

Dates Country Areas visited Details Image
62 27 March 1990 Saudi Arabia Hafar al-Batin, Riyadh Diplomatic visit, held with talks with King Fahd[85]
63 April 1990 Jordan Amman Diplomatic visit, held talks with King Hussein bin Talal.[86]
64 17 June 1990 Yemen Sanaa Diplomatic visit, met with Ali Abdullah Saleh[87]
65 04 October 1990 Ba'athist Iraq Kuwait Iraqi-occupied Kuwait Observed his troops in the country following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.[88]

2000s

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