List of international presidential trips made by Vladimir Putin

Since Vladimir Putin was inaugurated as President of Russia on 7 May 2000, he has travelled to 72 countries as of November 2024, in addition to many more domestic trips. This list does not include Putin's trips during his term as Prime Minister of Russia from 8 May 2008 to 7 May 2012.

Summary

+President Vladimir Putin's visits by countryNumber of visits Country1 visit (17)

Libya

2 visits (18)

Syria3 visits (12)

4 visits (2) 5 visits (5)

6 visits (2) 7 visits (2) 8 visits (2) 9 visits (2) 10 visits (2) 11 visits (1) 13 visits (1) 14 visits (2)

17 visits (1) 19 visits (1) 21 visits (1) 23 visits (1) 28 visits (1) 33 visits (1)

Acting presidency (31 December 1999 – 7 May 2000)

CountryAreas visitedDate(s)Details Image Minsk16 AprilMet with President Alexander Lukashenko. This was Putin's first foreign visit after becoming acting president. It was also after he won the 2000 Russian presidential election. London17 AprilMet with Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair. Also met with British Business executives. Sevastopol, Kyiv18 AprilMet with President Leonid Kuchma. Discussed ways to help develop the Black Sea Fleet. Putin also spoke out strongly against NATO expansion.

First presidency (2000–2008)

2000 CountryAreas visitedDate(s)Details Image Tashkent18–19 May Met with President Islam Karimov; this was the first foreign visit after Putin's inauguration for the first presidential term. Ashgabat18 May Met with President Saparmurat Niyazov. Minsk23–24 May Met with President Alexander Lukashenko. Also met with Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kyrgyz President Askar Akayev and Armenian president Robert Kocharian.Rome, Milan3–6 June Met with Prime Minister Giuliano Amato and President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi. Vatican CityVatican City5 JuneMet with Pope John Paul II. Madrid13–14 June Met with Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar and King Juan Carlos. Berlin15–16 June Met with Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and President Johannes Rau. Chișinău16–17 June Met with President Petru Lucinschi. Dushanbe5 July Attended the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. Beijing18–19 July Met with President and Communist Party General Secretary Jiang Zemin.Pyongyang 19–20 July Met with Supreme leader and Workers' Party General Secretary Kim Jong Il and participated in a banquet at the Mokran House. Okinawa21–23 July Attended the G8 summit. Yalta, Foros18 August Attended the CIS summit. Tokyo3–5 September Official visit. Met with Prime Minister Yoshirō Mori and Emperor Akihito. New York City6–8 September Attended the Millennium Summit; met with President Bill Clinton.New Delhi, Agra2–5 October State visit. Met with Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and President Kocheril Raman Narayanan. Astana9–10 October Attended the Eurasian Economic Community summit. Bishkek11 October Attended the CSTO summit. Paris30 October – 1 November Met with President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Lionel Jospin. Attended the Russia-EU summit. Ulaanbaatar13–14 November Official visit. Met with President Natsagiyn Bagabandi and Prime Minister Nambaryn Enhbayar.Bandar Seri Begawan15–16 November Attended the APEC summit. Minsk30 November – 1 December Attended the CIS summit. Havana14–17 December State visit. Met with President and First Secretary of the Communist Party Fidel CastroOttawa, Toronto18–19 December Official Visit. Met with Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and Governor General Adrienne Clarkson.

2001 CountryAreas visitedDate(s)Details Image Baku9–10 January Official visit. Met with President Heydar Aliyev. Vienna, St. Christoph am Arlberg8–11 February Met with President Thomas Klestil, Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel, President Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga of Latvia, President Rudolf Schuster of Slovakia, Prime Minister Janez Drnovšek of Slovenia. Dnipropetrovsk12 February Met with President Leonid Kuchma.Seoul27–28 February State visit. Met with President Kim Dae-jung and Prime Minister Lee Han-dong. Hanoi1–2 March State visit. Met with President Tran Duc Luong and General Secretary of the Communist Party Le Kha Phieu. Stockholm23 March Met with EU Council Members. Yerevan24–25 May Attended the CSTO summit.Minsk31 May-1 JuneAttended the CIS summit. Shanghai14–15 June Attended the SCO summit. Belgrade16–17 June Met with Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica and Serbian prime minister Zoran Đinđić. Ljubljana16 June Attended the summit meeting with US president George W. Bush. Italy Genoa16–22 July Attended the G8 summit. Vitebsk25 July Attended the trilateral summit meeting of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. Crimea, Sevastopol28–29 July Met with President Leonid Kuchma. Kyiv23–24 August Met with President Leonid Kuchma. Marked the 10th Anniversary of Ukraine's Independence. Helsinki2–3 September Met with President Tarja Halonen. Yerevan14–15 September Official visit. Met with President Robert Kocharian. Berlin22–27 September State visit. Met with Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and President Johannes Rau. Brussels1–3 October Official visit. Met with Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt and King Albert II. Shanghai 19–21 October Working visit to China. Attended the APEC summit. Dushanbe22 October Met with President Emomali Rakhmonov. Washington, D.C., Houston, Crawford, New York City7–16 November State visit. Met with President George W. Bush. Athens6–8 December Official visit. Met with Prime Minister Konstantinos Simitis and President Konstantinos Stephanopoulos. Hanover9 December Met with Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. Kharkiv14 December Met with President Leonid Kuchma. Chequers21–22 December Met with Prime Minister Tony Blair.

2002 CountryAreas visitedDate(s)Details ImageParis15 January Met with President Jacques Chirac. Warsaw, Poznań16–17 January Official visit. Met with Prime Minister Leszek Miller and President Aleksander Kwaśniewski. Almaty28 February–2 March Attended the CIS summit. Odesa17 March Attended the trilateral summit meeting of Russia, Ukraine and Moldova.Weimar9–10 AprilMet with Chancellor Gerhard Schröder.Ashgabat23–24 April Attended the Caspian Summit. Italy Rome28 May Attended the Russia-NATO summit. Almaty4 June Attended the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia Summit. Kananaskis26–28 June Attended the G8 summit. Aktau6 July Attended the informal meeting of the heads of Central Asian states and Russia. Chișinău6–7 October Attended the CIS summit. Zaporizhzhia6 OctoberMarked the 70th Anniversary of Dnieper Hydroelectric Plant Construction. Brussels11 November Attended the Russia-EU summit.Oslo12 November Official visit. Met with King Harald V. Beijing27 November–3 December Official visit. Met with President Jiang Zemin and new-elected Communist Party General Secretary Hu Jintao.New Delhi3–4 December Met with Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and President Abdul Kalam. Bishkek5 December Met with President Askar Akayev.

2003 CountryAreas visitedDate(s)Details Image Minsk19–20 January Met with President Aleksandr Lukashenko. Kyiv27–29 January Met with President Leonid Kuchma. Attended the CIS summit. Berlin9 February Met with Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. Paris, Bordeaux10–12 February State visit. Met with President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin.Sofia1–3 March State visit. Met with President Georgi Parvanov and Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg Gotha. Dushanbe26–27 April Met with President Emomali Rakhmonov. Yalta30 April 30–4 May Met with President Leonid Kuchma.Évian-les-Bains1–3 June Attended the G8 summit. London, Edinburgh22–26 JuneState visit; met with UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and Queen Elizabeth II. In Edinburgh, he met with First Minister of Scotland Jack McConnell. Kuala Lumpur5 August Official visit; met with Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and King Sirajuddin. Samarkand6 August Met with President Islam Karimov. Italy Sardinia29–31 August Met with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Yalta17–19 September Attended the CIS summit. New York City, Camp David20–27 September Attended the 58th session of the United Nations General Assembly; met with President George W. Bush. Kuala Lumpur16–17 October Met with Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. ThailandBangkok17–22 October State visit. Met with Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and King Bhumibol Adulyadej and attended the APEC summit. Bishkek23 October Met with President Askar Akayev. ItalyRome3–6 November State visit; met with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and President Carlo Ciampi and attended the Russia-EU summit. Vatican CityVatican City5 NovemberState visit. Met with Pope John Paul II. Paris7 November Met with President Jacques Chirac.

2004 CountryAreas visitedDate(s)Details Image Astana9–10 January Official visit. Met with President Nursultan Nazarbayev. Kyiv23–24 January Met with President Leonid Kuchma. Yalta23–24 May Meeting of Heads of States Parties to the Agreement on Common Economic Space. This was the first foreign visit after Putin was re-election for his second presidential term. Arromanche, Caen6 JuneMarked the 60th anniversary of the Allied landings in Normandy. Sea Island, Washington, D.C.8–11 June Attended the G8 summit and the funeral of former US President Ronald Reagan. Tashkent16–17 June Attended the SCO summit.Minsk1 July Marked the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Belarus. Vienna10 July Attended the state funeral of President Thomas Klestil. Kyiv26 July Met with President Leonid Kuchma. Astana15–16 September Attended the CIS summit. Beijing14–15 October Official visit. Met with President & Communist Party General Secretary Hu Jintao, and Premier Wen Jiabao. Dushanbe16–18 October Official visit. Met with President Emomali Rakhmonov. Visited Russia's Military Base. Kyiv26–27 October Official visit. Attended the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Ukraine. Kerch12 November Met with President Leonid Kuchma. SantiagoNovember 19–21 Official visit. Met with President Ricardo Lagos. Attended the APEC summit. Brasília22 November Official visit. Met with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Lisbon23 November Met with President Jorge Sampaio and Prime Minister Pedro Santana Lopes. The Hague25–26 November Attended the Russia-EU summit. New Delhi, Bangalore3–5 December Official visit. Met with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Abdul Kalam. Ankara5–6 December Official visit. Met with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and President Ahmet Necdet Sezer.Hamburg, Schleswig20–21 December Met with Chancellor Gerhard Schröder.

2005 CountryAreas visitedDate(s)Details Image Kraków27–28 January Marked the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Bratislava24–25 February Official visit; attended the summit meeting with US president George W. Bush. Kyiv19 March Met with President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. Yerevan24–25 March Met with President Robert Kocharian. Hanover10–11 April Met with Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. Cairo26–27 April Met with President Hosni Mubarak.Both and Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Ramallah27–29 April Met with Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas. Baikonur2 June Marked the 50th anniversary of the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Astana5 July Attended the SCO summit. Gleneagles6–8 July Attended the G8 summit. Kultaranta. Turku1–2 August Met with President Tarja Halonen. Berlin8 September Met with Chancellor Gerhard Schröder.New York City, Bayonne, Washington, D.C.14–17 September Attended the 60th session of the United Nations General Assembly and the 2005 World Summit. Met with President George W. Bush. Brussels3 October Official visit. London4–5 October Met with UK Prime Minister Tony Blair. Attended the Russia-EU summit. The Hague1–2 November State visit. Met with Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende and Queen Beatrix.Samsun17–18 November Busan18–19 November Attended the APEC summit. Tokyo20–22 November Official visit. Met with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and Emperor Akihito.Kuala Lumpur13–14 December Attended the Russia-ASEAN summit.

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