This is a list of international presidential trips made by Hafez al-Assad, president of Syria, during his presidency between 1971 and 2000.
1970s
1971 Country Location Date Purpose Ref. Libya Benghazi 17 April Signing of the agreement to establish the Federation of Arab Republics between Egypt, Libya and Syria.
1972 Country Location Date Purpose Ref. Kuwait City 22 April Mersa Matruh 19 June Attended a meeting of the Federation of Arab Republics Moscow July Cairo 9 July
1973 Country Location Date Purpose Ref. Cairo 7 February Meeting with president Anwar Sadat and Colonel Muammar Gaddafi April Moscow 7 May
1974 Country Location Date Purpose Ref. Beirut 18 January Meeting with president Suleiman Frangieh Lahore 22–24 February Attended the Organisation of the Islamic Conference Summit Belgrade 15 August Meeting with President Josip Broz Tito Bucharest 9 September Meeting with president Nicolae Ceaușescu Pyongyang September Rabat 30 October Attended the 7th Arab Summit Conference
1975 Country Location Date Purpose Ref. Beirut 7 January Meeting with president Suleiman Frangieh Riyadh 24 April Attended the Arab Summit Conference Amman 10 June Meeting with Hussein bin Talal Prague, Karlovy Vary 8–11 September Meeting with Gustáv Husák Moscow 10 October Tehran December Amman 9–10 December Meeting with Hussein bin Talal
1976 Country Location Date Purpose Ref. Paris 17–18 June Meeting with president Valéry Giscard d'Estaing Belgrade June Bucharest 27 June Riyadh 16–18 October Attended a six-party summit, which included the leaders of Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, the Palestine Liberation Organization, and Kuwait to discuss the situation in Lebanon Amman 6–7 December Meeting with Hussein bin Talal
1977 Country Location Date Purpose Ref. Sudan Khartoum 27 February Attended trilateral summit with Sudanese president Gaafar Nimeiry and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat Moscow 19 April Meeting with General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev Geneva 9 May Meeting with U.S. president Jimmy Carter Tripoli 2 December Attended a summit with the participation of the leaders of Algeria, Iraq, Libya, the PLO and South Yemen to discuss Sadat's initiative Riyadh 9 December Meeting with Crown Prince Fahd Abu Dhabi 12 December Meeting with Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
1978 Country Location Date Purpose Ref. Moscow 20–22 February New Delhi 18 April Meeting with Prime Minister Indira Gandhi Bonn 12 September 1 October Moscow 6 October Baghdad 25–27 October Working visit 2 November Attended the Arab Summit Conference Hungary Budapest 29 November
1979 Country Location Date Purpose Ref. Baghdad 16–17 June Meeting with president Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr Algiers 3 July Meeting with president Chadli Benjedid Moscow 15–18 October
1980s
1980 Country Location Date Purpose Ref. Belgrade 4 May Attended the state funeral of Josip Broz Tito Tripoli Held unification talks with Muammar Gaddafi Moscow 8–10 October Meeting with General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev
1981 Country Location Date Purpose Ref. Mecca & Taif 25–29 January Attended the Organisation of the Islamic Conference Summit
1982 Country Location Date Purpose Ref. Taif 5 July Meeting with King Fahd
1983 Country Location Date Purpose Ref. New Delhi Jeddah 9 May Meeting with King Fahd
1985 Country Location Date Purpose Ref. Moscow 19 June Meeting with Chairman Mikhail Gorbachev
1986 Country Location Date Purpose Ref. Amman 5 May Meeting with Hussein bin Talal Athens 26–28 May State visit
1987 Country Location Date Purpose Ref. Kuwait City 26–29 January Attended the Organisation of the Islamic Conference Summit Moscow 27–29 April Meeting with Chairman Mikhail Gorbachev Sofia October Meeting with Todor Zhivkov
1990s
1990 Country Location Date Purpose Ref. Cairo 14–16 July Meeting with president Hosni Mubarak 10 August Attended the Arab Summit Conference on the Iraqi-Kuwaiti crisis Tehran 26 September
1992 Country Location Date Purpose Ref. Kuwait City 20 April Meeting with Emir Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah
1994 Country Location Date Purpose Ref. Cairo 4–5 April Meeting with president Hosni Mubarak
1997 Country Location Date Purpose Ref. Tehran 1 August State visit 9–11 December Attended the Organisation of the Islamic Conference Summit
1998 Country Location Date Purpose Ref. Paris 18 July Meeting with president Jacques Chirac
1999 Country Location Date Purpose Ref. Amman February Attended the funeral of Hussein bin Talal Moscow 7 July Meeting with president Boris Yeltsin
2000s 2000 Country Location Date Purpose Ref. Geneva 26 March Meeting with US president Bill Clinton Cairo 9 May Meeting with president Hosni Mubarak
See also List of international presidential trips made by Bashar al-Assad Presidency of Hafez al-Assad Foreign relations of Syria
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