This is a list of international presidential trips made by Hafez al-Assad during his presidency between 1971 and 2000.
1971
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Libya | Benghazi | 17 April 1971 | Signing of the agreement to establish the Federation of Arab Republics between Egypt, Libya and Syria. | [1] |
1972
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Kuwait | Kuwait City | 22 April 1972 | ||
Egypt | Mersa Matruh | 19 June 1972 | Attended a meeting of the Federation of Arab Republics | [2] |
Soviet Union | Moscow | July 1972 | ||
Egypt | Cairo | 9 July 1972 | [3] |
1973
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Egypt | Cairo | 7 February 1973 | Meeting with president Anwar Sadat and Colonel Muammar Gaddafi | [4] |
Egypt | April 1973 | [5] | ||
Soviet Union | Moscow | 7 May 1973 | [6] |
1974
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Lebanon | Beirut | 18 January 1974 | Meeting with president Suleiman Frangieh | [7] |
Pakistan | Lahore | 22–24 February 1974 | Attended the Organisation of the Islamic Conference Summit | |
Yugoslavia | Belgrade | 15 August 1974 | Meeting with President Josip Broz Tito | [8] |
Romania | Bucharest | 9 September 1974 | Meeting with president Nicolae Ceaușescu | |
Korea DPR | Pyongyang | September 1974 | ||
Morocco | Rabat | 30 October 1974 | Attended the 7th Arab Summit Conference | [9] |
1975
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Lebanon | Beirut | 7 January 1975 | Meeting with president Suleiman Frangieh | [10] |
Saudi Arabia | Riyad | 24 April 1975 | Attended the Arab Summit Conference | |
Jordan | Amman | 10 June 1975 | Meeting with Hussein bin Talal | |
Czechoslovakia | Prague, Karlovy Vary | 8–11 September 1975 | Meeting with Gustáv Husák | [11] |
Soviet Union | Moscow | 10 October 1975 | [12] | |
Iran | Tehran | December 1975 | ||
Jordan | Amman | 9–10 December 1975 | Meeting with Hussein bin Talal |
1976
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France | Paris | 17–18 June 1976 | Meeting with president Valéry Giscard d'Estaing | [13] |
Yugoslavia | Belgrade | June 1976 | ||
Romania | Bucharest | 27 June 1976 | [14] | |
Saudi Arabia | Riyadh | 16–18 October 1976 | 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 | [15] |
Jordan | Amman | 6–7 December 1976 | Meeting with Hussein bin Talal | [16] |
1977
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Sudan | Khartoum | 27 February 1977 | Attended trilateral summit with Sudanese president Gaafar Nimeiry and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat | [17] |
Soviet Union | Moscow | 19 April 1977 | Meeting with General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev | [18] |
Switzerland | Geneva | 9 May 1977 | Meeting with U.S. president Jimmy Carter | [19] |
Libya | Tripoli | 2 December 1977 | Attended a summit with the participation of the leaders of Algeria, Iraq, Libya, the PLO and South Yemen to discuss Sadat's initiative | [20] |
Saudi Arabia | Riyadh | 9 December 1977 | Meeting with Crown Prince Fahd | [21] |
United Arab Emirates | Abu Dhabi | 12 December 1977 | Meeting with Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan | [22] |
1978
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Soviet Union | Moscow | 20–22 February 1978 | ||
India | New Delhi | 18 April 1978 | Meeting with Prime Minister Indira Gandhi | [23] |
West Germany | Bonn | 12 September 1978 | ||
East Germany | 1 October 1978 | |||
Iraq | Baghdad | 25–27 October 1978 | Working visit | [24] |
Iraq | Baghdad | 2 November 1978 | Attended the Arab Summit Conference | [25] |
Soviet Union | Moscow | 6 October 1978 | ||
Hungary | Budapest | 29 November 1978 |
1979
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Iraq | Baghdad | 16–17 June 1979 | Meeting with president Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr | [26] |
Algeria | Algiers | 3 July 1979 | Meeting with president Chadli Benjedid | [27] |
Soviet Union | Moscow | 15–18 October 1979 |
1980
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Yugoslavia | Belgrade | 4 May 1980 | Attended the state funeral of Josip Broz Tito | |
Libya | Tripoli | Held unification talks with Muammar Gaddafi | ||
Soviet Union | Moscow | 8–10 October 1980 | Meeting with General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev | [28] |
1981
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Saudi Arabia | Mecca & Taif | 25–29 January 1981 | Attended the Organisation of the Islamic Conference Summit |
1982
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Saudi Arabia | Taif | 5 July 1982 | Meeting with King Fahd | [29] |
1983
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India | New Delhi | 1983 | ||
Saudi Arabia | Jeddah | 9 May 1983 | Meeting with King Fahd | [30] |
1985
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Soviet Union | Moscow | 19 June 1985 | Meeting with Chairman Mikhail Gorbachev | [31] |
1986
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Jordan | Amman | 5 May 1986 | Meeting with Hussein bin Talal | [32] |
Greece | Athens | 26–28 May 1986 | State visit | [33] |
1987
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Kuwait | Kuwait City | 26–29 January 1987 | Attended the Organisation of the Islamic Conference Summit | [34] |
Soviet Union | Moscow | 27–29 April 1987 | Meeting with Chairman Mikhail Gorbachev | [35] |
Bulgaria | Sofia | October 1987 | Meeting with Todor Zhivkov | [36] |
1990
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Egypt | Cairo | 14–16 July 1990 | Meeting with president Hosni Mubarak | [37] |
Egypt | Cairo | 9 August 1990 | Attended the Arab Summit Conference on the Iraqi-Kuwaiti crisis |
1992
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Kuwait | Kuwait City | 20 April 1992 | Meeting with Emir Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah | [38] |
1994
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Egypt | Cairo | 4–5 April 1994 | Meeting with president Hosni Mubarak | [39] |
1997
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Iran | Tehran | 1 August 1997 | State visit | |
Iran | Tehran | 9–11 December 1997 | Attended the Organisation of the Islamic Conference Summit | [40] |
1998
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France | Paris | 18 July 1998 | Meeting with president Jacques Chirac | [41] |
1999
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Jordan | Amman | February | Attended the funeral of Hussein bin Talal | [42] |
Russia | Moscow | 7 July 1999 | Meeting with president Boris Yeltsin | [43] |
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