List of international presidential trips made by Bill Clinton explained

This is a list of international presidential trips made by Bill Clinton, the 42nd president of the United States. Bill Clinton made 54 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.

The number of visits per country where President Clinton travelled are:

One visit to Albania, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Chile, China (Hong Kong), Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, El Salvador, Finland, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Kuwait, Latvia, Macedonia, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palestinian Authority (West Bank and Gaza), Portugal, Romania, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, Vatican City, Venezuela, Vietnam and Yugoslavia (Kosovo)
Two visits to Belgium, Jordan, Mexico, Philippines, Poland, and Spain
Three visits to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ireland, South Korea, and Ukraine
Four visits to Egypt and Israel
Five visits to Canada, France, Japan, Russia, and Switzerland
Six visits to Germany
Seven visits to United Kingdom
Eight visits to Italy

First term

1993

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1		Vancouver		Attended Summit Meeting with Russian President Boris Yeltsin. Also met with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.
2	Japan	Tokyo		Attended the 19th G7 summit. Met with Russian President Boris Yeltsin.
2		Seoul		Met with President Kim Young-sam. Addressed the South Korean National Assembly. Visited U.S. military personnel.

1994

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3	Belgium	Brussels		Attended the NATO Summit Meeting. Met with King Albert II and Prime Minister Jean-Luc Dehaene.
	Czech Republic	Prague		Met with the Presidents and Prime Ministers of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia.
	Ukraine	Kyiv		Met with President Leonid Kravchuk.
		Moscow		Met with President Boris Yeltsin and senior Russian officials. Signed nuclear disarmament agreement with Ukraine.
	Belarus	Minsk		Met with Chairman Stanislav Shushkevich.^[2] ^[3] ^[4] ^[5]
	Switzerland	Geneva		Met with Syrian President Hafez al-Assad.
4		Rome, Nettuno		Met with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro. Visited U.S. Military Cemetery.
		Apostolic Palace		Audience with Pope John Paul II.
	United Kingdom	Cambridge, London, Portsmouth		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.
		Colleville, Paris		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		Received honorary degree from Oxford University.
5		Riga		Met with the Presidents of the Baltic states.
	Poland	Warsaw		Addressed the Polish Parliament. Attended ceremonies commemorating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
		Naples		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.
		Bonn, Ludwigshafen, Berlin		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		Met with President Hosni Mubarak and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat.
		Aqaba, Wadi Arava, Amman		Attended the signing of the Israel-Jordan peace agreement. Addressed the Jordanian Parliament.
		Damascus		Met with President Hafez al-Assad.
	Israel	Jerusalem		Met with senior Israeli officials. Addressed the Knesset.
	Kuwait	Kuwait City		Met with Emir Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah. Addressed U.S. military personnel.
	Saudi Arabia	King Khalid Military City		Met with King Fahd.
7				State visit. Met with President Fidel V. Ramos. Visited World War II battlegrounds of Corregidor Island.
7	Indonesia	Jakarta, Bogor		State visit. Attended the APEC Summit Meeting.
8		Budapest		Attended CSCE Summit Meeting.

1995

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

1996

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16	Italy	Aviano Air Base		Met with U.S. military personnel.
	Hungary	Taszár		Met with U.S. military personnel.
	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Tuzla		Met with President Alija Izetbegovic. Addressed U.S. military personnel.
	Croatia	Zagreb		Met with President Franjo Tudjman.
17	Egypt	Sharm el-Sheikh		Attended the Summit of the Peacemakers.
17				Discussed cooperation against terrorism with senior Israeli officials.
18		Cheju Island		Met with President Kim Young-sam. Proposed four-nation peace talks.
		Tokyo		State visit. Issued joint statement on U.S.-Japanese security relations. Addressed the Diet and U.S. Navy personnel.
		Saint Petersburg, Moscow		Attended the G-7 summit on nuclear safety. Summit Meeting with President Boris Yeltsin.
19	France	Lyon, Pérouges, Paris		Attended the 22nd G7 summit. Met with Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin and UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali.
20		Sydney, Canberra, Port Douglas		State visit. Addressed joint meeting of Parliament. Visited the Great Barrier Reef.
	Philippines	Manila, Subic		Attended the APEC Summit Meeting.
		Bangkok		State visit.

Second term

1997

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21		Helsinki		Summit meeting with Russian President Boris Yeltsin. Also met with President Martti Ahtisaari.
22	Mexico	Mexico City, Tlaxcala		State visit. Met with President Ernesto Zedillo.
	Costa Rica	San José		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		Attended the U.S.-Caribbean Community summit meeting. Signed the Partnership for Prosperity and Security in the Caribbean pact.
23	France	Paris		Attended the NATO Summit Meeting and the signing of the NATO-Russia Founding Act.
		The Hague, Rotterdam		Attended the U.S.-EU Summit Meeting. Attended the 50th anniversary of the Marshall Plan.
	United Kingdom	London		Met with Prime Minister Tony Blair. Attended a Cabinet meeting.
24	Spain	Palma de Majorca, Madrid, Granada		Vacationed with King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sophia. Attended the NATO Summit Meeting in Madrid.
	Poland	Warsaw		Met with President Aleksander Kwaśniewski and former President Lech Wałęsa.
	Romania	Bucharest		Met with President Emil Constantinescu and Romanian political leaders.
	Denmark	Copenhagen		Met with Queen Margrethe II and Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen.
25		Caracas		Met with President Rafael Caldera.
	Brazil	Brasília, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro		Met with President Fernando Henrique Cardoso. Delivered several public addresses.
	Argentina	Buenos Aires, San Carlos de Bariloche		Met with President Carlos Menem. Delivered several public addresses.
26		Vancouver		Attended the APEC Summit Meeting.
27	Italy	Aviano Air Base		Stopped en route to and from Bosnia-Herzegovina.
27	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Sarajevo, Tuzla		Met with the Bosnian Collective Presidency and Bosnian Serb President Biljana Plavšić. Visited U.S. military personnel.

1998

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28	Ghana	Accra		Met with President Jerry Rawlings. Visited a Peace Corps project.
	Uganda	Kampala, Kisowera, Mukono Town, Wanyange, Entebbe		Met with President Yoweri Museveni and the Presidents of Ethiopia, Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya and the Congo.
	Rwanda	Kigali		Met with President Pasteur Bizimungu. Delivered a public address.
		Cape Town, Johannesburg		Met with President Nelson Mandela. Addressed joint session of Parliament.
		Gaborone, Kasame		Met with President Quett Masire. Visited Chobe National Park.
	Senegal	Dakar, Thiès, Gorée Island		Met with President Abdou Diouf. Visited Senegalese peacekeeping troops. Delivered several public addresses.
29	Chile	Santiago		State visit. Attended the 2nd Summit of the Americas.
30		Berlin, Potsdam, Frankfurt, Eisenach		Met with Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Attended 50th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift.
		Birmingham, Weston-under-Lizard, London		Attended the 24th G8 summit and the US-EU summit meetings.
		Geneva		Attended the WTO meeting commemorating the 50th anniversary of GATT.
31	China	Xi'an, Beijing, Shanghai, Guilin, Hong Kong		State visit. Met with President Jiang Zemin. Visited the Forbidden City and the Great Wall of China. Delivered a speech at Peking University.
32		Moscow		Summit meeting with President Boris Yeltsin.
	United Kingdom	Belfast, Armagh, Omagh		Met with Prime Minister Tony Blair and Northern Irish political leaders. Addressed the Northern Ireland Assembly.
	Ireland	Dublin, Adare, Limerick, Ballybunion		Met with Taoiseach Bertie Ahern. Delivered several public addresses and played golf.
33	Japan	Tokyo		Met with Emperor Akihito and Prime Minister Keizō Obuchi. Addressed American Chamber of Commerce.
33		Seoul, Osan		Met with President Kim Dae-jung. Addressed U.S. military personnel.
34				Met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and senior Israeli officials.
34		Gaza, Bethlehem, Erez		Addressed Palestine National Council. Attended a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Chairman Yasser Arafat.

1999

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35	Jordan	Amman		Attended the funeral of King Hussein.
36	Mexico			State visit. Met with President Ernesto Zedillo.
37		Managua, Posoltega, El Porvenir		Discussed reconstruction aid with President Arnoldo Aleman.
	Honduras	Soto Cano Air Base, Tegucigalpa		Discussed reconstruction aid with President Carlos Roberto Flores. Addressed U.S. military personnel.
		San Salvador		Addressed Legislative Assembly.
	Guatemala			Attended the Central American Summit.
38	Belgium	Brussels		Discussed the Kosovo War with NATO officials.
38	Germany	Frankfurt, Ramstein Air Base, Spangdahlem Air Base, Bonn, Ingelheim		Addressed U.S. military personnel; met with Chancellor Gerhard Schröder; met with Kosovo War refugees.
39	Switzerland	Geneva		Addressed ILO Conference. Met with President Ruth Dreifuss.
	France	Paris		Discussed peacekeeping in Kosovo with President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Lionel Jospin.
	Germany	Cologne, Bonn		Attended the 25th G8 summit.
	Slovenia	Ljubljana		Met with President Milan Kučan, Prime Minister Janez Drnovšek and Montenegrin President Milo Đukanović.
		Skopje		Met with President Kiro Gligorov. Addressed Kosovar refugees and NATO military personnel.
	Italy	Aviano Air Base		Addressed U.S. military personnel.
40	Morocco	Rabat		Attended the funeral of King Hassan II. Met with Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak.
41	Italy	Aviano Air Base		Stopped en route to Sarajevo.
41	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Sarajevo		Attended Stability Pact Leaders Conference.
42		Auckland, Queenstown, Christchurch		Attended the APEC Summit Meeting. State Visit.
43	Canada	Ottawa, Mont-Tremblant		Met with Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and Quebec Premier Lucien Bouchard. Attended Federalism Conference at Mont Tremblant. Dedicated new U.S. Embassy building.
44	Norway	Oslo		State visit. Held discussions with Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik^[6] Attended commemorative ceremony for former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Met with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin; also met with Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat and Prime Minister Ehud Barak of Israel.^[7]
45	Turkey	Ankara, İzmit, Ephesus, Istanbul		State visit. Attended Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Summit meeting.
	Greece	Athens		State visit. Met with Prime Minister Konstantinos Simitis.
	Italy	Florence		Attended conference on Progressive Governance for the 21st Century.
	Bulgaria	Sofia		Met with President Petar Stoyanov and Prime Minister Ivan Kostov.
		Pristina, Uroševac, Camp Bondsteel		Met with Kosovar Transitional Council. Addressed the Albanian community and U.S. military personnel.

2000

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46	Switzerland	Davos		Addressed the World Economic Forum.
47	Italy	Aviano Air Base		Stopped en route to India.
	India			Met with President Kocheril Raman Narayanan. Signed Joint Statement on Energy and the Environment. Addressed the Indian Parliament.
	Bangladesh	Dhaka		Met with President Shahabuddin Ahmed and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
	Pakistan	Islamabad		Met with President Muhammad Rafiq Tarar and General Pervez Musharraf. Delivered radio address.
	Oman	Muscat		Met with Sultan Qaboos bin Said.
	Switzerland	Geneva		Met with Syrian President Hafez al-Assad.
48	Portugal	Lisbon		Attended the U.S.-EU Summit Meeting. Met with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak.
	Germany	Berlin, Aachen		Met with President Johannes Rau and Chancellor Schröder; received Charlemagne Prize, and attended a Third Way Conference.
		Moscow		Summit meeting with President Vladimir Putin. Addressed the Duma.
	Ukraine	Kyiv		Met with President Leonid Kuchma.
49		Tokyo		Attended the funeral of former Prime Minister Keizō Obuchi.
50	Japan	Nago		Attended the 26th G8 summit.
51	Nigeria	Abuja, Ushafa		Met with President Olusegun Obasanjo. Addressed the National Assembly.
		Arusha		Met with former South African President Nelson Mandela to promote a peace agreement for Burundi. Met with President Benjamin Mkapa.
	Egypt	Cairo		Briefed President Hosni Mubarak on the Middle East Peace Process.
		Cartagena		Met with President Andrés Pastrana Arango.
52	Egypt	Sharm el-Sheikh		Attended the Israeli-Palestinian Summit Meeting.
53		Bandar Seri Begawan		Attended the APEC Summit Meeting.
53		Hanoi, Tien Chau, Ho Chi Minh City		Met with President Tran Duc Luong. Delivered several public addresses.
54	Ireland	Dublin, Dundalk		Met with Taoiseach Bertie Ahern. Delivered several public addresses.
54	United Kingdom	Belfast, London, Coventry		Met with Prime Minister Tony Blair and Northern Irish political leaders in Belfast. Met with Queen Elizabeth II and delivered a speech at the University of Warwick.

Multilateral meetings

Multilateral meetings of the following intergovernmental organizations took place during President Clinton's term in office (1993–2001).

Group	Year
Group	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
APEC	November 19–20 Seattle	November 15–16 Bogor	November 18–19 Osaka	November 24–25 Subic	November 24–25 Vancouver	November 17–18 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, D.C.	none
NATO	none	January 10–11 Brussels	none	none	July 8–9 Madrid	none	April 23–25 Washington, D.C.	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		none			none		U.S.-EU Summit May 30–June 1 Lisbon
Others	none	none		none	U.S.-EU Summit May 27–28 The Hague		none		U.S.-EU Summit May 30–June 1 Lisbon
██ = Did not attend; ██ = No meeting held. Al Gore attended in the President's place due to the US government shutdown. • Al Gore attended in the President's place due to the ongoing impeachment inquiry.