List of international prime ministerial trips made by Margaret Thatcher

The list of international prime ministerial trips made by Margaret Thatcher encompasses the diplomatic visits outside the United Kingdom made during her tenure as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979–1990.

1979 CountryLocations visitedDateDetailsImageParisJune Met with President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.Moscow26 JuneWorking visit and stopover. Met with Chairman Alexei Kosygin.Tokyo28–29 June Attended the 5th G7 summit.LusakaAugust Attended the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.Washington, D.C., New York CityDecember Met with President Jimmy Carter.

1980 CountryLocations visitedDateDetailsImageVenice22–23 JuneAttended the 6th G7 summit.

1981 CountryLocations visitedDateDetailsImageWashington, D.C.February Met with President Ronald Reagan after his presidency begun.RiyadhApril Abu DhabiApril Ottawa, Montebello20–21 July Attended the 7th G7 summit.

1982 CountryLocations visitedDateDetailsImageNew York CityJune Addressed the United Nations Special Session on Disarmament.Versailles4–6 JuneAttended the 8th G7 summit.BeijingSeptember Met with Chinese paramount leader Deng Xiaoping.

1983 CountryLocations visitedDateDetailsImageWilliamsburg28–29 MayAttended the 9th G7 summit.

1984 CountryLocations visitedDateDetailsImageBudapest2–4 FebruaryOfficial visit. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher visited Hungary, in her first official visit to the Eastern Bloc. She met with Prime Minister György Lázár and First Secretary János Kádár. She also laid a wreath at Hősök tere and the Commonwealth War Cemetery in Solymár.Moscow14 FebruaryAttended the state funeral of Yuri Andropov. Met briefly with Konstantin Chernenko.FontainebleauJune Attended a European Council Summit.BeijingDecember Official visit. Co-signed the historic Sino-British Joint Declaration alongside Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang.Camp DavidDecember Working visit.

1985 CountryLocations visitedDateDetailsImageMoscowMarchAttended the state funeral of Konstantin Chernenko.New DelhiApril Met with Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.SingaporeApril Met with Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew.Kuala LumpurApril Met with Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad.Bonn2–4 MayAttended the 11th G7 summit.

1986 CountryLocations visitedDateDetailsImageTokyo4–6 MayAttended the 12th G7 summit.

1987 CountryLocations visitedDateDetailsImageMoscowMarch Official visit.Venice8–10 JuneAttended the 13th G7 summit.

1988 CountryLocations visitedDateDetailsImageNairobiJanuary Met with President Daniel arap Moi.Lagos, KanoJanuary Met with Ibrahim Babangida.Brussels1–3 MarchAttended the NATO Summit Meeting.Toronto19–20 JuneAttended the 14th G7 summit.Singapore31 July - 1 AugustMet with Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew en-route to Australia.Melbourne, SydneyAugust Attended the Australian Bicentenary celebrations. Met with Prime Minister Bob Hawke.MadridSeptember The first official visit by a British Prime Minister to Spain.BrugesSeptember Delivered her famous Bruges speech.Warsaw, GdańskNovember Met with Communist leader Wojciech Jaruzelski and Solidarity leader Lech Wałęsa, providing direct, high-profile Western validation to the anti-communist opposition movement.Washington, D.C.November Met with President Ronald Reagan before his presidency concluded.

1989 CountryLocations visitedDateDetailsImageBrussels28–30 MayAttended the NATO Summit Meeting.Paris14–16 JulyAttended the 15th G7 summit. Brussels3–4 DecemberAttended the NATO Summit Meeting.

1990 CountryLocations visitedDateDetailsImageMoscow, Kyiv, Leninakan8–10 JuneMet with Mikhail Gorbachev and other leaders. Visited Supreme Soviet of Ukraine. Visited the Lord Byron School in the Armenian SSR.Houston9–11 JulyAttended the 16th G7 summit.AspenAugustAttended the Aspen Institute Aspen Security Forum alongside President George H. W. Bush.Paris18–21 NovemberAttended the CSCE summit to sign the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe. While in Paris, she received the first-round results of the 1990 Conservative Party leadership election, forcing her resignation days later.

Multilateral meetings

Thatcher attended the following regular summits during her premiership: Group Year1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990G7 28–29 June, Tokyo 22–23 June, Venice 20–21 July, Montebello4–6 June, Versailles 28–30 May, Williamsburg 7–9 June, London 2–4 May, Bonn 4–6 May, Tokyo 8–10 June, Venice 20–21 July, Toronto 14–16 July, Paris9–11 July, HoustonNATO nonenonenone10 June, Bonnnonenone21 November, Brusselsnonenone2–3 March, Brussels 29–30 May, Brussels5–6 July, London 4 December, Brussels CHOGM 1–7 August, Lusaka none 30 September–7 October, Melbourne none 23–29 November, New Delhi none 16–22 October, Nassau 3–5 August, London 13–17 October, Vancouver none 18–24 October, Kuala Lumpur none

See also Foreign relations of the United Kingdom List of international trips made by prime ministers of the United Kingdom List of state visits made by Elizabeth II Premiership of Margaret Thatcher

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