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List of international trips made by Muammar Gaddafi

This is a list of international trips made by Muammar Gaddafi, the de facto leader of Libya, from 1969 to 2011. He was Chairman of the Libyan Revolutionary Command Council from 1969 to 1977 and Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution from 1977 to 2011.

Gaddafi with President Dmitry Medvedev in Moscow, 2008

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The number of visits per country where Muammar Gaddafi traveled are:

1970s

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1970

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Egypt Cairo 11 June Working visit. Met with President Gamal Abdel Nasser.[1]
Egypt Cairo August Met with President Gamal Abdel Nasser
Egypt Cairo 21–27 September Attended the Arab League emergency summit.
Egypt Cairo 1 October Attended the state funeral of Gamal Abdel Nasser.[2]
Syria Damascus 16 November [3]

1971

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Tunisia Tunis 11 February [4]

1972

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Sudan February
Egypt Cairo 1–4 May Met with President Anwar Sadat.
Tunisia Tunis 14–15 December Met with President Habib Bourguiba.[4]

1973

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Egypt Cairo 7 February Met with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Syrian President Hafez al-Assad.
Algeria Algiers 5–9 September Attended the 4th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement.[5]
Yugoslavia Belgrade, Valjevo and Sarajevo 19–23 November Working visit. Met with President Josip Broz Tito.[6] Discussed military aid and the Arab-Israeli conflict.[7]
France Paris 23–24 November Working visit. Met with President Georges Pompidou and Prime Minister Pierre Messmer.[8]
Malta 25–26 November Working visit.[9]

1974

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Pakistan Lahore 22–24 February Attended the 2nd Islamic Summit of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.[10]
Niger Niamey 7–11 March
Chad N'Djamena 11–13 March Met with President François Tombalbaye.
Egypt Alexandria 17–18 August Working visit. Met with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Emirati President Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan.[11]
Malta Valletta 19–23 December Working visit. Opened the Libyan Arab Cultural Institute in Valletta.[12]

1975

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Malta December

1976

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Malta 21–25 May [12]
Yugoslavia Belgrade June
Sri Lanka Colombo 16–19 August Attended the 5th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement.[13]
Soviet Union Moscow 6–9 December Working visit. Met with General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, Premier Alexei Kosygin and Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Gromyko.[14]

1977

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Togo 28 January – 1 February
Yugoslavia Brijuni 21–25 June Working visit. Met with President Josip Broz Tito.[15]

1978

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Algeria Algiers February Attended the Steadfastness and Confrontation Front summit.[16]
People's Republic of Bulgaria Bulgaria Sofia June
Hungary Budapest June
Poland Warsaw 1 July Working visit. Met with First Secretary Edward Gierek and Chairman of the Council of State Henryk Jabłoński.
Iraq Baghdad 2–5 November Attended the Arab League emergency summit.

1979

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Syria Damascus 23 June Met with President Hafez al-Assad.
Qatar Doha July

1980s

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1981

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Soviet Union Moscow 27–29 April Working visit. Met with General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev.[17]
Yugoslavia Belgrade 29 April–1 May [18]
Ethiopia Addis Ababa August

1982

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Tunisia 25 January Working visit. Met with Prime Minister Mohammed Mzali.[19]
Austria Vienna 10–14 March Working visit.[20]
Poland Warsaw 15 September Working visit. Met with First Secretary Wojciech Jaruzelski.
China October Working visit. Met with Paramount Leader Deng Xiaoping. Visited the Great Wall of China.[21]
North Korea Pyongyang October Working visit. Met with President Kim Il-sung and signed a ten-year friendship treaty.[22]
Yugoslavia 2–6 November [23]
Tunisia 13–18 December

1983

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Bulgaria 17–21 January Working visit. Signed the Bulgarian-Libyan Friendship and Co-operation Treaty.[24]
Romania 21–24 January Working visit. Met with President Nicolae Ceaușescu.[25]
Benin April
Nigeria 25–28 April

1984

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Morocco Oujda 13 August 1984 Met with King Hassan II. Signed the Oujda Treaty.[26]
Greece Elounda 15 November 1984 Met with French President François Mitterrand and Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou. Discussed a proposed mutual military withdrawal from the Chadian–Libyan War.[27]

1985

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Soviet Union Moscow 10 October 1985 Working visit. Met with General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev.[28]
Senegal December 1985

1986

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Zimbabwe Harare 1–6 September 1986 Attended the 8th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement.[29]

1988

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Algeria Algiers 7–9 June 1988 Attended the Arab League emergency summit.[30]

1989

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Morocco Marrakech 17 February 1989 Signed the founding treaty of the Arab Maghreb Union.[31]
Egypt Mersa Matruh 16 October 1989 Held talks with President Hosni Mubarak and agreed to reestablish Egypt-Libya relations.[32]

1990s

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1990

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Gaddafi with Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa, Yemen – 22 May 1990
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Yemen Sanaa 22 May Met with President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Iraq Baghdad 28–30 May Attended the Arab League summit[33]

1991

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Egypt Cairo 29 November Working visit. Met with President Hosni Mubarak.[34]

1996

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Egypt Cairo 25–27 May Met with President Hosni Mubarak.
Egypt Cairo 22–23 June Attended the Arab League summit.[35]

1997

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Nigeria Abuja and Kano 8–10 May Met with head of state Sani Abacha. Celebrated the Islamic New Year.[36][37]

1998

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Chad N'Djamena 30 April–5 May Met with President Idriss Déby.

1999

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South Africa Cape Town, Robben Island, Pretoria and Soweto 13–15 June Met with President Nelson Mandela. Attended the inauguration ceremony of Thabo Mbeki. Visited Robben Island.[38][39]
Algeria Algiers 12–14 July Attended the Organization of African Union summit.[40]
Chad

2000s

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2000

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Saudi Arabia Riyadh 11–12 October Met with King Fahd and Crown Prince Abdullah, discussed bilateral Libyan-Saudi Arabian relations and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.[41]

2001

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Jordan Amman 27–28 March Met with King Abdullah and attended the Arab League summit.[42]
Zambia Lusaka 9–11 July Attended the final summit of the Organization of African Unity.[43]

2002

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South Africa Durban 28 June–10 July Met with President Thabo Mbeki and attended the founding summit of the African Union.[44]

2003

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Egypt Sharm El Sheikh 1 March Attended the Arab League summit.[45]
Tunisia Tunis 19–23 May [46]
Mozambique Maputo 2–12 July Attended the African Union summit.[47]

2004

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Belgium Brussels 27–29 April Working visit. Met with President of the European Commission Romano Prodi and Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt. Visited the headquarters of the European Commission and the Palais d’Egmont.[48]
Tunisia Tunis 22 May Attended the Arab League summit. Withdrew from the summit following disagreements over its agenda.[49]

2005

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Algeria Algiers 22–23 March Attended the Arab League summit.[50]
Mozambique Maputo 5–7 October State Visit. Met with President Armando Guebuza.

2006

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Sudan Khartoum 28–30 March Attended the Arab League summit.[51]
Mali Bamako April Celebrated Mawlid.[52]
The Gambia Banjul 25 June–2 July Attended the 7th African Union summit. Mediated talks between Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir and Chadian president Idriss Déby.[53]

2007

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Ghana Accra 25 June–6 July Attended the 9th African Union summit.[54]
Portugal Lisbon 8–9 December Attended the 2nd European Union–African Union Summit.[55]
France Paris 10–14 December State visit. Met with President Nicolas Sarkozy.[56]
Spain Madrid 15–18 December State visit. Met with King Juan Carlos and Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.[57]

2008

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Ethiopia Addis Ababa 25 January–2 February Attended the African Union summit.[58]
Uganda Kampala 13–17 March Met with President Yoweri Museveni and attended the Afro-Arab youth festival.[59]
Syria Damascus 28–29 March Met with President Bashar al-Assad and attended the 20th Arab League summit.[60][61]
Tunisia Tunis 4–8 August Met with President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Attended the inauguration of the Omar El Mokhtar housing project. Delivered a lecture at Carthage University.[62]
Russia Moscow 31 October–2 November State visit. Met with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.[63]
Belarus Minsk 2–4 November Met with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.[64]
Ukraine Kiev 4–6 November State visit. Met with Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.[65]

2009

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Guinea Conakry 3 January Working visit. Met with transitional President Moussa Dadis Camara and Prime Minister Kabiné Komara.[66][67]
Ethiopia Addis Ababa 26 January–3 February Attended the African Union summit. Elected Chairperson of the African Union.[68]
Mauritania Nouakchott March Working visit. Met with President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz.[69]
Guinea-Bissau Bissau 12–13 March Met with acting President Raimundo Pereira.
Qatar Doha 31 March Met with Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and attended the 21st Arab League summit.[70][71]
Italy Rome 10–13 June State visit. Met with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.[72][73]
Italy L’Aquila 8–10 July Met with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, attended the 35th G8 Summit and held a bilateral meeting with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.[74]
Egypt Sharm el-Sheikh 11–16 July Attended the 15th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement.[75]
The Gambia Banjul 21–23 July Attended the 15th anniversary celebration of the 1994 Gambian coup d'état. Met with President Yahya Jammeh.[76]
United States New York City 22–25 September First and only official visit to the United States.[77][78] Addressed the Council on Foreign Relations.[79]
United Nations New York City 23 September Addressed the sixty-fourth session of the United Nations General Assembly.[80]
Venezuela Isla Margarita 25–29 September Attended the 2nd Africa-South America Summit. Met with President Hugo Chávez.[81][82]
Italy Rome 16–18 November Attended the United Nations World Summit on Food Security.[83]

2010s

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2010

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Ethiopia Addis Ababa 25 January–2 February 2010 Attended the 14th African Union summit.[84]
Uganda Kampala 19–27 July 2010 Attended the 15th African Union summit.[85]
Italy Rome 29 August–2 September 2010 Met with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.[86][87]
Sudan Khartoum 21 December 2010 Met with President Omar al-Bashir.[88]

2011

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Chad Ndjamena 11 January 2011 Attended the celebrations of Chad's 50th independence anniversary.[89]

References

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