This is a list of international presidential trips made by Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States. Jimmy Carter made 12 international trips to 25 different countries during his presidency, which began on January 20, 1977 and ended on January 20, 1981.
Carter visited five continents: Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, and South America. He was the first president to make a state visit to Sub-Saharan Africa when he went to Nigeria in 1978. His travel included five trips to Europe and three trips to Asia. He also made several trips to the Middle East including Palestine - Gaza Strip to broker peace negotiations. He was awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize for his peacemaking efforts. In 1978, he travelled to Panama City to sign a protocol confirming exchange of documents ratifying the Panama Canal treaties.
Summary The number of visits per country where President Carter travelled are: One visit to Austria, Belgium, Brazil, India, Iran, Israel, Italy, Liberia, Mexico, Nigeria, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Vatican City, Venezuela, West Germany and Yugoslavia, Palestine (several times including Gaza Strip, Post Presidential). Two visits to France and Japan Three visits to Egypt
1977 Country Areas visited Dates Details Image1London,NewcastleAttended the 3rd G7 summit. Also met with the prime ministers of Greece, Belgium, Turkey, Norway, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, and with the President of Portugal. Addressed NATO Ministers meeting.GenevaOfficial visit. Met with President Kurt Furgler. Also met with Syrian President Hafez al-Assad.2WarsawOfficial visit. Met with First Secretary Edward Gierek. The visit garnered notoriety among Poles in subsequent years due to Carter's goodwill speech, which was mistranslated as a series of incoherent and anti-Polish remarks.TehranOfficial visit. Met with Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and King Hussein of Jordan. Carter gave his "Island of Stability" speech during this visit.
1978 Country Areas visited Dates Details Image2New Delhi, Daulatpur NasirabadMet with President Neelam Sanjiva Reddy and Prime Minister Morarji Desai. Addressed Parliament of India.RiyadhMet with King Khalid and Crown Prince Fahd.AswanMet with President Anwar Sadat and German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt.Paris,Normandy,Bayeux,VersaillesMet with President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and Prime Minister Raymond Barre.BrusselsMet with King Baudouin and Prime Minister Leo Tindemans. Attended meetings of the Commission of the European Communities and the North Atlantic Council.3CaracasMet with President Carlos Andrés Pérez. Addressed Congress and signed maritime boundary agreement.BrasíliaRio de JaneiroOfficial visit. Met with President Ernesto Geisel and addressed National Congress.LagosState visit. Met with President Olusegun Obasanjo.MonroviaMet with President William R. Tolbert, Jr.4Panama CityInvited by President Demetrio B. Lakas and General Omar Torrijos to sign protocol confirming exchange of documents ratifying Panama Canal treaties. Also met informally with Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez, Colombian President Alfonso López Michelsen, Mexican President José López Portillo, Costa Rican Rodrigo Carazo Odio and Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley.5Bonn,Wiesbaden-Erbenheim,FrankfurtState visit. Met with President Walter Scheel and Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Addressed U.S. and German military personnel.West BerlinSpoke at the Berlin Airlift Memorial.BonnAttended the 4th G7 summit.
1979 Country Areas visited Dates Details Image6Basse-Terre, GuadeloupeMet informally with President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and British Prime Minister James Callaghan.7Mexico CityState visit. Met with President José López Portillo. Addressed the Mexican Congress.8Lajes FieldStopped en route to Egypt.Cairo,Alexandria,GizaState visit. Met with President Anwar Sadat. Addressed People's Assembly of Egypt.Tel Aviv,JerusalemState visit. Met with President Yitzhak Navon and Prime Minister Menachem Begin. Addressed the Knesset.CairoMet with President Anwar Sadat.Lajes FieldStopped during return to Washington D.C.9ViennaState visit. Met with President Rudolf Kirchschläger and Chancellor Bruno Kreisky. Met with Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev to sign SALT II Treaty.10Tokyo,ShimodaAttended the 5th G7 summit. State visit. Met with Emperor Hirohito and Prime Minister Masayoshi Ōhira.SeoulState visit. Met with President Park Chung-hee and Prime Minister Choi Kyu-hah.
1980 Country Areas visited Dates Details Image11Rome,VeniceAttended the 6th G7 summit. State visit. Met with President Sandro Pertini.Apostolic PalaceAudience with Pope John Paul II.BelgradeOfficial visit. Met with President Cvijetin Mijatović.MadridOfficial visit. Met with King Juan Carlos I and Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez.LisbonOfficial visit. Met with President António Ramalho Eanes and Prime Minister Francisco de Sá Carneiro.12TokyoOfficial visit. Attended memorial services for former Prime Minister Masayoshi Ōhira. Met with Emperor Hirohito, Bangla President Ziaur Rahman, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, Thai Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda and Chinese Premier Hua Guofeng.
Multilateral meetings Multilateral meetings of the following intergovernmental organizations took place during Jimmy Carter's presidency (1977–1981).
Group Year 1977 1978 1979 1980G7 May 7–8 LondonJuly 16–17 Bonn June 28–29 Tokyo June 22–23 VeniceNATO May 10–11 LondonMay 30–31 Washington, D.C.nonenone
See also Foreign policy of the Carter administration Foreign policy of the United States
References
External links Travels of President Jimmy Carter. U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.