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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:

Map of international trips made by Bill Clinton as president:
  United States
  8 visits
  6-7 visits
  5 visits
  4 visits
  3 visits
  2 visits
  1 visit

First term

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1993

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1  Canada Vancouver April 3–4 Attended Summit Meeting with Russian President Boris Yeltsin. Also met with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.
2  Japan Tokyo July 6–10 Attended the 19th G7 summit. Met with Russian President Boris Yeltsin.
 South Korea Seoul July 10–11 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 January 9–11 Attended the NATO Summit Meeting. Met with King Albert II and Prime Minister Jean-Luc Dehaene.
 Czech Republic Prague January 11–12 Met with the Presidents and Prime Ministers of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia.
 Ukraine Kyiv January 12 Met with President Leonid Kravchuk.
 Russia Moscow January 12–15 Met with President Boris Yeltsin and senior Russian officials. Signed nuclear disarmament agreement with Ukraine.
 Belarus Minsk January 15 Met with Chairman Stanislav Shushkevich.[2][3][4][5]
  Switzerland Geneva January 15–16 Met with Syrian President Hafez al-Assad.
4  Italy Rome,
Nettuno
June 2–4 Met with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro. Visited U.S. Military Cemetery.
 Vatican City Apostolic Palace June 2 Audience with Pope John Paul II.
 United Kingdom Cambridge,
London,
Portsmouth
June 4–5 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.
 France Colleville,
Paris
June 6–8 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 June 8 Received honorary degree from Oxford University.
5  Latvia Riga July 6 Met with the Presidents of the Baltic states.
 Poland Warsaw July 6–7 Addressed the Polish Parliament. Attended ceremonies commemorating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
 Italy Naples July 7–10 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.
 Germany Bonn,
Ludwigshafen,
Berlin
July 10–12 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 October 25–26 Met with President Hosni Mubarak and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat.
 Jordan Aqaba,
Wadi Arava,
Amman
October 26–27 Attended the signing of the Israel-Jordan peace agreement. Addressed the Jordanian Parliament.
 Syria Damascus October 27 Met with President Hafez al-Assad.
 Israel Jerusalem October 27–28 Met with senior Israeli officials. Addressed the Knesset.
 Kuwait Kuwait City October 28 Met with Emir Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah. Addressed U.S. military personnel.
 Saudi Arabia King Khalid Military City October 28 Met with King Fahd.
7  Philippines Manila,
Corregidor Island
November 12–13 State visit. Met with President Fidel V. Ramos. Visited World War II battlegrounds of Corregidor Island.
 Indonesia Jakarta,
Bogor
November 13–16 State visit. Attended the APEC Summit Meeting.
8  Hungary Budapest December 5 Attended CSCE Summit Meeting.

1995

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9  Canada Ottawa February 23–24 State visit. Met with Governor General Roméo LeBlanc and Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. Addressed Parliament.
10  Haiti Port-au-Prince March 31 Attended transition ceremony for United Nations Mission in Haiti.
11  Russia Moscow May 9–11 Summit meeting. Attended the 50th anniversary of VE Day ceremonies.
 Ukraine Kyiv May 11–12 State visit. Met with President Leonid Kuchma.
12  Canada Halifax June 15–17 Attended the 21st G7 summit. Met with Russian President Boris Yeltsin.
13  Israel Jerusalem November 5–6 Attended the funeral of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
14  United Kingdom London,
Belfast,
Derry
November 28 –
December 1
Met with Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister John Major. Addressed Parliament. Delivered several public addresses in Northern Ireland.
 Ireland Dublin December 1–2 Met with President Mary Robinson and Prime Minister John Bruton.
 Germany Baumholder December 2 Addressed U.S. military personnel. Met with Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
 Spain Madrid December 2–3 Attended the European Union Summit Meeting.
15  France Paris December 14 Attended the signing of the Bosnian peace treaty.

1996

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16  Italy Aviano Air Base January 13 Met with U.S. military personnel.
 Hungary Taszár January 13 Met with U.S. military personnel.
 Bosnia and Herzegovina Tuzla January 13 Met with President Alija Izetbegovic. Addressed U.S. military personnel.
 Croatia Zagreb January 13 Met with President Franjo Tudjman.
17  Egypt Sharm el-Sheikh March 13 Attended the Summit of the Peacemakers.
 Israel Jerusalem,
Tel Aviv
March 13–14 Discussed cooperation against terrorism with senior Israeli officials.
18  South Korea Cheju Island April 15–16 Met with President Kim Young-sam. Proposed four-nation peace talks.
 Japan Tokyo April 16–18 State visit. Issued joint statement on U.S.-Japanese security relations. Addressed the Diet and U.S. Navy personnel.
 Russia Saint Petersburg,
Moscow
April 18–21 Attended the G-7 summit on nuclear safety. Summit Meeting with President Boris Yeltsin.
19  France Lyon,
Pérouges,
Paris
June 27–29 Attended the 22nd G7 summit. Met with Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin and UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali.
20  Australia Sydney,
Canberra,
Port Douglas
November 19–23 State visit. Addressed joint meeting of Parliament. Visited the Great Barrier Reef.
 Philippines Manila,
Subic
November 24–25 Attended the APEC Summit Meeting.
 Thailand Bangkok November 25–26 State visit.

Second term

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1997

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21  Finland Helsinki March 20–21 Summit meeting with Russian President Boris Yeltsin. Also met with President Martti Ahtisaari.
22  Mexico Mexico City,
Tlaxcala
May 5–7 State visit. Met with President Ernesto Zedillo.
 Costa Rica San José May 7–9 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 May 9–11 Attended the U.S.-Caribbean Community summit meeting. Signed the Partnership for Prosperity and Security in the Caribbean pact.
23  France Paris May 26–27 Attended the NATO Summit Meeting and the signing of the NATO-Russia Founding Act.
 Netherlands The Hague,
Rotterdam
May 27–28 Attended the U.S.-EU Summit Meeting. Attended the 50th anniversary of the Marshall Plan.
 United Kingdom London May 28–29 Met with Prime Minister Tony Blair. Attended a Cabinet meeting.
24  Spain Palma de Majorca,
Madrid,
Granada
July 4–10 Vacationed with King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sophia. Attended the NATO Summit Meeting in Madrid.
 Poland Warsaw July 10–11 Met with President Aleksander Kwaśniewski and former President Lech Wałęsa.
 Romania Bucharest July 11 Met with President Emil Constantinescu and Romanian political leaders.
 Denmark Copenhagen July 11–12 Met with Queen Margrethe II and Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen.
25  Venezuela Caracas October 12–13 Met with President Rafael Caldera.
 Brazil Brasília,
São Paulo,
Rio de Janeiro
October 13–15 Met with President Fernando Henrique Cardoso. Delivered several public addresses.
 Argentina Buenos Aires,
San Carlos de Bariloche
October 15–18 Met with President Carlos Menem. Delivered several public addresses.
26  Canada Vancouver November 23–25 Attended the APEC Summit Meeting.
27  Italy Aviano Air Base December 22 Stopped en route to and from Bosnia-Herzegovina.
 Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo,
Tuzla
December 22 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 March 23 Met with President Jerry Rawlings. Visited a Peace Corps project.
 Uganda Kampala,
Kisowera,
Mukono Town,
Wanyange,
Entebbe
March 23–25 Met with President Yoweri Museveni and the Presidents of Ethiopia, Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya and the Congo.
 Rwanda Kigali March 25 Met with President Pasteur Bizimungu. Delivered a public address.
 South Africa Cape Town,
Johannesburg
March 25–29 Met with President Nelson Mandela. Addressed joint session of Parliament.
 Botswana Gaborone, Kasame March 29–31 Met with President Quett Masire. Visited Chobe National Park.
 Senegal Dakar,
Thiès,
Gorée Island
March 31 – April 2 Met with President Abdou Diouf. Visited Senegalese peacekeeping troops. Delivered several public addresses.
29  Chile Santiago April 16–19 State visit. Attended the 2nd Summit of the Americas.
30  Germany Berlin,
Potsdam,
Frankfurt,
Eisenach
May 12–14 Met with Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Attended 50th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift.
 United Kingdom Birmingham,
Weston-under-Lizard,
London
May 14–18 Attended the 24th G8 summit and the US-EU summit meetings.
  Switzerland Geneva May 18 Attended the WTO meeting commemorating the 50th anniversary of GATT.
31  China Xi'an,
Beijing,
Shanghai,
Guilin,
Hong Kong
June 24 – July 3 State visit. Met with President Jiang Zemin. Visited the Forbidden City and the Great Wall of China. Delivered a speech at Peking University.
32  Russia Moscow September 1–3 Summit meeting with President Boris Yeltsin.
 United Kingdom Belfast,
Armagh,
Omagh
September 3 Met with Prime Minister Tony Blair and Northern Irish political leaders. Addressed the Northern Ireland Assembly.
 Ireland Dublin,
Adare,
Limerick,
Ballybunion
September 3–5 Met with Prime Minister Bertie Ahern. Delivered several public addresses and played golf.
33  Japan Tokyo November 19–20 Met with Emperor Akihito and Prime Minister Keizō Obuchi. Addressed American Chamber of Commerce.
 South Korea Seoul,
Osan
November 20–22 Met with President Kim Dae-jung. Addressed U.S. military personnel.
34  Israel Jerusalem,
Masada
December 12–15 Met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and senior Israeli officials.
 Palestinian National Authority Gaza,
Bethlehem,
Erez
December 14–15 Addressed Palestine National Council. Attended a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Chairman Yasser Arafat.

1999

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35  Jordan Amman February 8 Attended the funeral of King Hussein.
36  Mexico Mérida February 14–15 State visit. Met with President Ernesto Zedillo.
37  Nicaragua Managua,
Posoltega,
El Porvenir
March 8 Discussed reconstruction aid with President Arnoldo Aleman.
 Honduras Soto Cano Air Base, Tegucigalpa March 8–9 Discussed reconstruction aid with President Carlos Roberto Flores. Addressed U.S. military personnel.
 El Salvador San Salvador March 10 Addressed Legislative Assembly.
 Guatemala Guatemala City,
Antigua
March 10–11 Attended the Central American Summit.
38  Belgium Brussels May 4 Discussed the Kosovo War with NATO officials.
 Germany Frankfurt,
Ramstein Air Base,
Spangdahlem Air Base,
Bonn,
Ingelheim
May 4–6 Addressed U.S. military personnel; met with Chancellor Gerhard Schröder; met with Kosovo War refugees.
39   Switzerland Geneva June 16 Addressed ILO Conference. Met with President Ruth Dreifuss.
 France Paris June 16–17 Discussed peacekeeping in Kosovo with President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Lionel Jospin.
 Germany Cologne,
Bonn
June 17–21 Attended the 25th G8 summit.
 Slovenia Ljubljana June 21–22 Met with President Milan Kučan, Prime Minister Janez Drnovšek and Montenegrin President Milo Đukanović.
 Macedonia Skopje June 22 Met with President Kiro Gligorov. Addressed Kosovar refugees and NATO military personnel.
 Italy Aviano Air Base June 22 Addressed U.S. military personnel.
40  Morocco Rabat July 25 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 July 29–30 Stopped en route to Sarajevo.
 Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo July 30 Attended Stability Pact Leaders Conference.
42  New Zealand Auckland,
Queenstown,
Christchurch
September 11–15 Attended the APEC Summit Meeting. State Visit.
43  Canada Ottawa,
Mont-Tremblant
October 7–8 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 November 1–2 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
November 15–19 State visit. Attended Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Summit meeting.
 Greece Athens November 19–20 State visit. Met with Prime Minister Konstantinos Simitis.
 Italy Florence November 20–21 Attended conference on Progressive Governance for the 21st Century.
 Bulgaria Sofia November 21–23 Met with President Petar Stoyanov and Prime Minister Ivan Kostov.
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (Kosovo) Pristina,
Uroševac,
Camp Bondsteel
November 23 Met with Kosovar Transitional Council. Addressed the Albanian community and U.S. military personnel.

2000

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46   Switzerland Davos January 29 Addressed the World Economic Forum.
47  Italy Aviano Air Base March 18 Stopped en route to India.
 India New Delhi,
Agra,
Jaipur,
Hyderabad, Mumbai
March 19–25 Met with President Kocheril Raman Narayanan. Signed Joint Statement on Energy and the Environment. Addressed the Indian Parliament.
 Bangladesh Dhaka March 20 Met with President Shahabuddin Ahmed and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
 Pakistan Islamabad March 25 Met with President Muhammad Rafiq Tarar and General Pervez Musharraf. Delivered radio address.
 Oman Muscat March 25 Met with Sultan Qaboos bin Said.
  Switzerland Geneva March 25 Met with Syrian President Hafez al-Assad.
48  Portugal Lisbon May 30 – June 1 Attended the U.S.-EU Summit Meeting. Met with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak.
 Germany Berlin,
Aachen
June 1–3 Met with President Johannes Rau and Chancellor Schröder; received Charlemagne Prize, and attended a Third Way Conference.
 Russia Moscow June 3–5 Summit meeting with President Vladimir Putin. Addressed the Duma.
 Ukraine Kyiv June 5 Met with President Leonid Kuchma.
49  Japan Tokyo June 8 Attended the funeral of former Prime Minister Keizō Obuchi.
50  Japan Nago July 21–23 Attended the 26th G8 summit.
51  Nigeria Abuja, Ushafa August 26–28 Met with President Olusegun Obasanjo. Addressed the National Assembly.
 Tanzania Arusha August 28–29 Met with former South African President Nelson Mandela to promote a peace agreement for Burundi. Met with President Benjamin Mkapa.
 Egypt Cairo August 29 Briefed President Hosni Mubarak on the Middle East Peace Process.
 Colombia Cartagena August 30 Met with President Andrés Pastrana Arango.
52  Egypt Sharm el-Sheikh October 16–17 Attended the Israeli-Palestinian Summit Meeting.
53  Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan November 14–16 Attended the APEC Summit Meeting.
 Vietnam Hanoi,
Tien Chau,
Ho Chi Minh City
November 16–19 Met with President Tran Duc Luong. Delivered several public addresses.
54  Ireland Dublin,
Dundalk
December 12 Met with Prime Minister Bertie Ahern. Delivered several public addresses.
 United Kingdom Belfast,
London,
Coventry
December 12–14 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

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

Group Year
1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000
APEC November 19–20
United States Seattle
November 15–16
Indonesia Bogor
November 18–19[a]
Japan Osaka
November 24–25
Philippines Subic
November 24–25
Canada Vancouver
November 17–18[b]
Malaysia Kuala Lumpur
September 12–13
New Zealand Auckland
November 15–16
Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan
G7 / G8 July 7–9
Japan Tokyo
July 8–10
Italy Naples
June 15–17
Canada Halifax
June 27–29
France Lyon
June 20–22
United States Denver
May 15–17
United Kingdom Birmingham
June 18–20
Germany Cologne
July 21–23
Japan Nago
NATO none January 10–11
Belgium Brussels
none none May 27
France Paris
none April 23–25
United States Washington, D.C.
none
July 8–9
Spain Madrid
SOA
(OAS)
none December 9–11
United States Miami
none none none April 18–19
Chile Santiago
none none
OSCE none December 5–6
Hungary Budapest
none December 2–3
Portugal Lisbon
none none November 18–19
Turkey Istanbul
none
Others none none U.S.-EU Summit
December 2–3
Spain Madrid
none Central American Summit
May 7–9
Costa Rica San José
none Central American Summit
March 10–11
Guatemala Antigua Guatemala
U.S.-EU Summit
May 30–June 1
Portugal Lisbon
U.S.-EU Summit
May 27–28
Netherlands The Hague
██ = Did not attend; ██ = No meeting held.
^a Al Gore attended in the President's place due to the US government shutdown. • ^b Al Gore attended in the President's place due to the ongoing impeachment inquiry.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Travels of President William J. Clinton". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. ^ Erlanger, Steven (14 January 1994). "CLINTON IN EUROPE; in Belarus, Memorials Define a Nation". The New York Times.
  3. ^ "US President Bill Clinton Visited Minsk 24 Years Ago". charter97.org. Retrieved 2020-09-04.
  4. ^ "President Clinton in Minsk Jan. 15 1994". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-05.
  5. ^ "Clinton Hails Belarus for Arms Policy : Europe: President stops in former Soviet republic to commend it for giving up its nuclear weapons. But he also reprimands lawmakers for their resistance to political and economic reforms". Los Angeles Times. 16 January 1994.
  6. ^ "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton (1999, Book II), Joint Statement by President Clinton and Prime Minister Kjell Bondevik". gpo.gov. U.S. Government Printing Office. November 1, 1999. p. 1946. Retrieved February 20, 2016.
  7. ^ "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton (1999, Book II), Remarks Following Discussions With Chairman Yasser Arafat of the Palestinian Authority and Prime Minister Ehud Barak of Israel". gpo.gov. U.S. Government Printing Office. November 2, 1999. pp. 1951–1952. Retrieved February 20, 2016.
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