List of international presidential trips made by Bill Clinton

This is a list of international presidential trips made by Bill Clinton, the 42nd president of the United States. Bill Clinton made 55 international trips to 72 different countries (in addition to visiting the West Bank and Gaza) during his presidency, which began on January 20, 1993 and ended on January 20, 2001.^[1]

Clinton visited six continents: Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America. He took an active role in the Balkans, where he worked to promote peace and stability in and around the former Yugoslavia, and in the Middle East peace process, where he worked to promote peace between Israel and the Palestinians, as well as with the governments of neighboring nations.

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	Country	Areas visited	Dates	Details
1	Canada	Vancouver	April 3–4	Attended Summit Meeting with Russian president Boris Yeltsin. Also met with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.
2	Japan	Tokyo	July 6–10	Attended the 19th G7 summit. Met with Russian President Boris Yeltsin.
2	South Korea	Seoul	July 10–11	Met with President Kim Young-sam. Addressed the South Korean National Assembly. Visited U.S. military personnel.

	Country	Areas visited	Dates	Details
3	Belgium	Brussels	January 9–11	Attended the NATO Summit Meeting. Met with King Albert II and Prime Minister Jean-Luc Dehaene.
	Czech Republic	Prague	January 11–12	Met with the Presidents and Prime Ministers of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia.
	Ukraine	Kyiv	January 12	Met with President Leonid Kravchuk.
	Russia	Moscow	January 12–15	Met with President Boris Yeltsin and senior Russian officials. Signed nuclear disarmament agreement with Ukraine.
	Belarus	Minsk	January 15	Met with Chairman Stanislav Shushkevich.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]
	Switzerland	Geneva	January 15–16	Met with Syrian president Hafez al-Assad.
4	Italy	Rome, Nettuno	June 2–4	Met with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro. Visited U.S. Military Cemetery.
	Vatican City	Apostolic Palace	June 2	Audience with Pope John Paul II.
	United Kingdom	Cambridge, London, Portsmouth	June 4–5	Visited U.S. Military Cemetery. Met with Prime Minister John Major. Attended state dinner with Queen Elizabeth II and heads of state and government of Canada, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Australia, New Zealand, Norway and Belgium. Attended the 50th anniversary of D-Day commemorative ceremonies.
	France	Colleville, Paris	June 6–8	Attended the 50th anniversary of D-Day memorial ceremonies. Met with President François Mitterrand and senior French officials. Addressed the French National Assembly.
	United Kingdom	Oxford	June 8	Received honorary degree from Oxford University.
5	Latvia	Riga	July 6	Met with the Presidents of the Baltic states.
	Poland	Warsaw	July 6–7	Addressed the Polish Parliament. Attended ceremonies commemorating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
	Italy	Naples	July 7–10	Attended the 20th G7 summit. Met with Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, Japanese prime minister Tomiichi Murayama, Canadian prime minister Jean Chrétien and Russian president Boris Yeltsin.
	Germany	Bonn, Ludwigshafen, Berlin	July 10–12	Met with Chancellor Helmut Kohl and German political leaders. Delivered a public address at the Brandenburg Gate. Attended deactivation ceremony for the Berlin Brigade.
6	Egypt	Cairo	October 25–26	Met with President Hosni Mubarak and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat.
	Jordan	Aqaba, Wadi Arava, Amman	October 26–27	Attended the signing of the Israel-Jordan peace agreement. Addressed the Jordanian Parliament.
	Syria	Damascus	October 27	Met with President Hafez al-Assad.
	Israel	Jerusalem	October 27–28	Met with senior Israeli officials. Addressed the Knesset.
	Kuwait	Kuwait City	October 28	Met with Emir Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah. Addressed U.S. military personnel.
	Saudi Arabia	King Khalid Military City	October 28	Met with King Fahd.
7	Philippines	Manila, Corregidor Island	November 12–13	State visit. Met with President Fidel V. Ramos. Visited World War II battlegrounds of Corregidor Island.
7	Indonesia	Jakarta, Bogor	November 13–16	State visit. Attended the APEC Summit Meeting.
8	Hungary	Budapest	December 5	Attended CSCE Summit Meeting.

	Country	Areas visited	Dates	Details
9	Canada	Ottawa	February 23–24	State visit. Met with Governor General Roméo LeBlanc and Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. Addressed Parliament.
10	Haiti	Port-au-Prince	March 31	Attended transition ceremony for United Nations Mission in Haiti.
11	Russia	Moscow	May 9–11	Summit meeting. Attended the 50th anniversary of VE Day ceremonies.
11	Ukraine	Kyiv	May 11–12	State visit. Met with President Leonid Kuchma.
12	Canada	Halifax	June 15–17	Attended the 21st G7 summit. Met with Russian President Boris Yeltsin.
13	Israel	Jerusalem	November 5–6	Attended the funeral of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
14	United Kingdom	London, Belfast, Derry	November 28 – December 1	Met with Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister John Major. Addressed Parliament. Delivered several public addresses in Northern Ireland.
	Ireland	Dublin	December 1–2	Met with President Mary Robinson and Taoiseach John Bruton.
	Germany	Baumholder	December 2	Addressed U.S. military personnel. Met with Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
	Spain	Madrid	December 2–3	Attended the European Union Summit Meeting.
15	France	Paris	December 14	Attended the signing of the Bosnian peace treaty.

	Country	Areas visited	Dates	Details
16	Italy	Aviano Air Base	January 13	Met with U.S. military personnel.
	Hungary	Taszár	January 13	Met with U.S. military personnel.
	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Tuzla	January 13	Met with President Alija Izetbegovic. Addressed U.S. military personnel.
	Croatia	Zagreb	January 13	Met with President Franjo Tudjman.
17	Egypt	Sharm el-Sheikh	March 13	Attended the Summit of the Peacemakers.
17	Israel	Jerusalem, Tel Aviv	March 13–14	Discussed cooperation against terrorism with senior Israeli officials.
18	South Korea	Cheju Island	April 15–16	Met with President Kim Young-sam. Proposed four-nation peace talks.
	Japan	Tokyo	April 16–18	State visit. Issued joint statement on U.S.-Japanese security relations. Addressed the Diet and U.S. Navy personnel.
	Russia	Saint Petersburg, Moscow	April 18–21	Attended the G-7 summit on nuclear safety. Summit Meeting with President Boris Yeltsin.
19	France	Lyon, Pérouges, Paris	June 27–29	Attended the 22nd G7 summit. Met with Russian prime minister Viktor Chernomyrdin and UN secretary-general Boutros Boutros-Ghali.
20	Australia	Sydney, Canberra, Port Douglas	November 19–23	State visit. Addressed joint meeting of Parliament. Visited the Great Barrier Reef.
	Philippines	Manila, Subic	November 24–25	Attended the APEC Summit Meeting.
	Thailand	Bangkok	November 25–26	State visit.

	Country	Areas visited	Dates	Details
21	Finland	Helsinki	March 20–21	Summit meeting with Russian president Boris Yeltsin. Also met with President Martti Ahtisaari.
22	Mexico	Mexico City, Tlaxcala	May 5–7	State visit. Met with President Ernesto Zedillo.
	Costa Rica	San José	May 7–9	Attended the Summit Meeting of Presidents of the Central American Republics. Met President José María Figueres and travelled to Braulio Carrillo National Park.
	Barbados	Bridgetown	May 9–11	Attended the U.S.-Caribbean Community summit meeting. Signed the Partnership for Prosperity and Security in the Caribbean pact.
23	France	Paris	May 26–27	Attended the NATO Summit Meeting and the signing of the NATO-Russia Founding Act.
	Netherlands	The Hague, Rotterdam	May 27–28	Attended the U.S.-EU Summit Meeting. Attended the 50th anniversary of the Marshall Plan.
	United Kingdom	London	May 28–29	Met with Prime Minister Tony Blair. Attended a Cabinet meeting.
24	Spain	Palma de Majorca, Madrid, Granada	July 4–10	Vacationed with King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sophia. Attended the NATO Summit Meeting in Madrid.
	Poland	Warsaw	July 10–11	Met with President Aleksander Kwaśniewski and former president Lech Wałęsa.
	Romania	Bucharest	July 11	Met with President Emil Constantinescu and Romanian political leaders.
	Denmark	Copenhagen	July 11–12	Met with Queen Margrethe II and Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen.
25	Venezuela	Caracas	October 12–13	Met with President Rafael Caldera.
	Brazil	Brasília, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro	October 13–15	Met with President Fernando Henrique Cardoso. Delivered several public addresses.
	Argentina	Buenos Aires, San Carlos de Bariloche	October 15–18	Met with President Carlos Menem. Delivered several public addresses.
26	Canada	Vancouver	November 23–25	Attended the APEC Summit Meeting.
27	Italy	Aviano Air Base	December 22	Stopped en route to Bosnia-Herzegovina.
	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Sarajevo, Tuzla	December 22	Met with the Bosnian Collective Presidency and Bosnian Serb President Biljana Plavšić. Visited U.S. military personnel.
	Italy	Aviano Air Base	December 22	Stopped during return to Washington D.C..

List of international presidential trips made by Bill Clinton

Summary

First term (1993–1997)

1993

1994

1995

1996

Second term (1997–2001)

1997

1998

1999

2000

Multilateral meetings

See also

References

External links

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Group	Year
Group	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
APEC	November 19–20 Seattle	November 15–16 Bogor	November 18–19^[a] Osaka	November 24–25 Subic	November 24–25 Vancouver	November 17–18^[b] Kuala Lumpur	September 12–13 Auckland	November 15–16 Bandar Seri Begawan
G7 / G8	July 7–9 Tokyo	July 8–10 Naples	June 15–17 Halifax	June 27–29 Lyon	June 20–22 Denver	May 15–17 Birmingham	June 18–20 Cologne	July 21–23 Nago
NATO	none	January 10–11 Brussels	none	none	May 27 Paris	none	April 23–25 Washington	none
NATO	none	January 10–11 Brussels	none	none	July 8–9 Madrid	none	April 23–25 Washington	none
SOA (OAS)	none	December 9–11 Miami	none	none	none	April 18–19 Santiago	none	none
OSCE	none	December 5–6 Budapest	none	December 2–3 Lisbon	none	none	November 18–19 Istanbul	none
Others	none	none	U.S.–EU Summit December 2–3 Madrid	none	Central American Summit May 7–9 San José	none	Central American Summit March 10–11 Antigua Guatemala	U.S.–EU Summit May 30–June 1 Lisbon
Others	none	none	U.S.–EU Summit December 2–3 Madrid	none	U.S.–EU Summit May 27–28 The Hague	none	Central American Summit March 10–11 Antigua Guatemala	U.S.–EU Summit May 30–June 1 Lisbon
██ = Did not attend; ██ = No meeting held. ^a Al Gore attended in the President's place due to the US government shutdown. • ^b Al Gore attended in the President's place due to the ongoing impeachment inquiry.