This is a list of international trips made by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Arafat was permanently based in Kuwait until the end of 1964.
Summary The number of visits per country where Yasser Arafat traveled are: One visit to Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, Iran, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, North Yemen, Poland, South Africa, Sudan, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates and the United Arab Republic Two visits to Czechoslovakia, East Germany, France, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Oman, Pakistan, Sweden and Yugoslavia Three visits to Germany, Greece, India, Iraq, Morocco, Spain, Syria and the United Kingdom Four visits to Libya, North Korea, Romania, Indonesia Five visits to Algeria, China, Egypt, and Vietnam Six visits to Japan and Saudi Arabia Seven visits to the Soviet Union/Russia and the United States
1960s Date Location Purpose Ref. 1962 July 1968
1970s
Date Location Purpose Ref. 1 October 1970 Attended the funeral of Gamal Abdel Nasser 1971 19 January 1973 Algiers 11 November 1974 New York 1 November 1976 Rabat Spring 1978 Bucharest Met with President Nicolae Ceaușescu 17 February 1979 Tehran 28 March 1979 Baghdad He attended an Arab League meeting to discuss the peace treaty between Cairo and Tel Aviv 8 July 1979 Vienna Met with Chancellor Bruno Kreisky and German chancellor Willy Brandt September 1979
1980s
Date Location Purpose Ref. 28–29 March 1980 8 May 1980 Attended the funeral of Josip Broz Tito 10 July 1981 7–10 October 1981 11–12 October 1981 13 October 1981 16 October 1981 9 December 1981 Abu Dhabi Held talks with Austrian chancellor Bruno Kreisky 15–18 December 1981 December 1981 2 February 1982 9 March 1982 May 1982 3-Day Visit 24 May 1982 2 September 1982 16 September 1982 Met President Sandro Pertini 15 October 1982 27 October 1982 15 November 1982 Leonid Brezhnev funeral 28 December 1982 Mallorca Met Chancellor Bruno Kreisky 19 February 1983 14 April 1983 Met Prime Minister Olof Palme 1983 1983 1983 21 April 1983 Bucharest Met President Nicolae Ceaușescu 26 June 1983 Prague 1 September 1983 Geneva Addressed the U.N. conference on Palestine 23 December 1983 Held talks with President Hosni Mubarak in the wake of the Battle of Tripoli December 1983 31 December 1983 Convene the Palestinian National Council 6 May 1984 Held talks with high-ranking officials 7 May 1984 25 July 1984 Met with President Soeharto 29 July 1984 February 1985 Bucharest Met with President Nicolae Ceaușescu 14 July 1986 20 January 1988 Met Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou 26 April 1988 Met President Hafez al-Assad 1 September 1988 Attend celebrations marking the 19th anniversary of the coup 13 September 1988 Strasbourg Addressed the European Parliament 17 September 1988 6 December 1988 10 April 1989 Held talks with senior officials 3–4 May 1989 Paris Met President François Mitterrand 25–26 June 1989 28 June 1989 1–4 October 1989 4–5 October 1989
1990s
Date Location Purpose Ref. 28–30 May 1990 Baghdad Emergency Arab Summit Conference 4 August 1990 Baghdad 5 August 1990 Cairo Emergency Arab Summit Conference in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait 10 August 1990 Cairo Emergency Arab Summit Conference in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait December 1991 8 April 1992 1-6 September 1992 Attending the 1992 Non-Aligned Summit June 1993 7 December 1993 Bonn Met Chancellor Helmut Kohl 13 September 1993 Washington D.C. Oslo Accord signing ceremony 24 September 1993 Discussing the Oslo Accords with the President of Indonesia 16 December 1993 London Met Prime Minister John Major 22 January 1994 Offered condolences on the death of Bassel al-Assad 9 February 1994 Cairo 2 May 1994 23 February 1995 Mecca Met King Fahd 28 May 1995 Rabat Met Foreign Minister Shimon Peres November 1995 Hamburg 25–27 December 1995 Muscat 14 January 1996 2–3 May 1996 Washington D.C. Met President Bill Clinton 23 May 1996 Muscat 3–4 June 1996 Met Prime Minister John Major 19 June 1996 10–13 September 1996 1–2 October 1996 Washington D.C. Attended emergency White House summit with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu 30–31 October 1996 20–22 November 1997 December 1997 Tehran Islamic Summit 1998 Amsterdam 12 August 1998 Cape Town Met with senior officials and delivered a speech in Parliament 15–23 October 1998 Wye River Negotiating the Wye River Memorandum 25 October 1998 Met President Liamine Zéroual 5–6 April 1999 Moscow Met President Boris Yeltsin April 1999 Kyiv April 1999 April 1999 3 May 1999 9 September 1999 October 1999 15 October 1999 November 1999 Moscow
2000s
Date Location Purpose Ref. 13 June 2000 Attended the funeral of Hafez al-Assad 11–24 July 2000 Camp David Summit August 2000 5 August 2000 Working visit 11 August 2000 Moscow Met President Vladimir Putin 16 August 2000 Meeting with President Abdurrahman Wahid 17–18 August 2000 Held talks on the outcome of Camp David 10 November 2000 Ottawa Met Prime Minister Jean Chrétien 24 November 2000 Moscow Met President Vladimir Putin Arafat, Barak Agree to Renew Security Links 2 January 2001 Washington D.C. Met President Bill Clinton 20 March 2001 Jeddah Met King Fahd and Crown Prince Abdullah 29 May 2001 Moscow Met President Vladimir Putin 22 July 2001 Met King Fahd July 2001 Jeddah Offered condolences on the death of Prince Fahd bin Salman Al Saud 23 August 2001 24 ِ August 2001 Working visit 25 August 2001 Working visit 2 September 2001 Jeddah Met King Fahd and Crown Prince Abdullah 9 October 2001 Manama Met Emir Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa 14 October 2001 London Met Prime Minister Tony Blair 15 October 2001 Met with the Taoiseach Bertie Ahern 5 November 2001 Brussels Met Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres 25 November 2001 Met Hosni Mubarak
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