List of international prime ministerial trips made by Shinzo Abe

The following is a list of international prime ministerial trips made by Shinzo Abe during his tenure as the Prime Minister of Japan.

Summary

First premiership The number of visits per country where he has travelled are:

One visit to: Australia, Belgium, China, France, India, Indonesia, Kuwait, Malaysia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, the United States, Vietnam Two visits to: Germany, the Philippines

Second premiership The number of visits per country where he has travelled are:

One visit to: Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brunei, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Denmark, Djibouti, Egypt, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, Iran, Ireland, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Mozambique, New Zealand, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Sweden, Tajikistan, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vatican City Two visits to: Argentina, Brazil, Israel, Jordan, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Netherlands, Oman, Palestine, Papua New Guinea, Saudi Arabia, Spain, South Korea, Switzerland, Thailand Three visits to: Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Mongolia, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Vietnam Four visits to: China, the Philippines Five visits to: Germany, Italy, Singapore, the United Kingdom Seven visits to: France Eight visits to: Belgium Ten visits to: Russia Sixteen visits to: the United States

First premiership (2006–2007) 2006 No.CountryLocationsDatesDetailsImage1BeijingAbe met with President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao.SeoulAbe met with President Roh Moo-hyun and Prime Minister Han Myeong-sook.2HanoiAbe attended the APEC summit. He also met with Prime MInister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng, President Nguyễn Minh Triết, and Communist Party General Secretary Nông Đức Mạnh.3ManilaAbe met with President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.

2007 No.CountryLocationsDatesDetailsImage4LondonAbe met with Prime Minister Tony Blair. He also received courtesy calls from Chancellor Gordon Brown and Conservative Party Leader David Cameron.BerlinAbe met with Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Horst Köhler.BrusselsAbe met with European Commission President José Manuel Barroso and Belgian Prime MInister Guy Verhofstadt.ParisAbe met with President Jacques Chirac.CebuAbe attended the East Asia Summit.5Washington, D.C.Met with President George W. Bush.RiyadhMet with King Abdullah.Met with President Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan.Kuwait CityMet with Emir Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and Prime Minister Nasser Al-Mohammed Al-Sabah.DohaMet with Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and Prime Minister Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani.CairoMet with President Hosni Mubarak and Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif.6Attended the Japan–EU Summit and the G8 summit.7JakartaMet with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.New DelhiMet with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Pratibha Patil.Kuala LumpurMet with Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.8SydneyAbe attended the APEC summit.

Second premiership (2012–2020) 2013 No.CountryLocationsDatesDetailsImage1HanoiAbe met with Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng, Communist Party General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng, and President Trương Tấn Sang.BangkokAbe met with Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.JakartaAbe met with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.2Washington, D.C.Abe met with President Barack Obama. He later delivered a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.3UlanbaatarAbe met with President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj, Prime Minister Norovyn Altankhuyag, and State Great Khural Chairman Zandaakhüügiin Enkhbold.4MoscowAbe met with President Vladimir Putin and State Duma Chairman Sergey Naryshkin.RiyadhAbe met with Crown Prince Salman.Abe met with Crown Prince Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.AnkaraAbe met with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.5Abe met with President Thein Sein.6WarsawAbe met with Prime Minister Donald Tusk and President Bronislaw Komorowski.Abe attended the G8 summit.DublinAbe met with President Michael D. Higgins and Taoiseach Enda Kenny.7Kuala LumpurAbe met with Prime Minister Najib Razak.SingaporeAbe met with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and President Tony Tan.ManilaAbe met with President Benigno Aquino III.8ManamaAbe met with Prime Minister Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa and King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa.Kuwait CityAbe met with Prime Minister Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah and Emir Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah.Djibouti CityAbe met with President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh.DohaAbe met with Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and Prime Minister Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani.9Saint PetersburgAbe attended the G20 summit.10OttawaAbe met with Prime Minister Stephen Harper.New York CityAbe delivered a speech at the general debate of the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly.11BaliAbe attended the APEC summit.Bandar Seri BegawanAbe attended the ASEAN-related summits, including the ASEAN+3 Summit, ASEAN–Japan Summit, and the East Asia Summit.12IstanbulAbe attended the opening of Marmaray.13Phnom PenhAbe met with Prime Minister Hun Sen. He also met with King Norodom Sihamoni.VientianeAbe met with President Choummaly Sayasone and Prime Minister Thongsing Thammavong.

2014 No.CountryLocationsDatesDetailsImage14MuscatAbe met with Sultan Qaboos bin Said.AbidjanAbe met with President Alassane Ouattara.MaputoAbe met with President Armando Guebuza.Addis AbabaAbe met with Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn and President Mulatu Teshome.15DavosAbe attended the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.16New DelhiAbe met with President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. He also attended the Republic Day Parade as its chief guest.17The HagueAbe attended the Nuclear Security Summit.18BerlinAbe met with Chancellor Angela Merkel.LondonAbe met with Princess Royal Anne and Prime Minister David Cameron.LisbonAbe met with President Aníbal Cavaco Silva and Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho.Santiago de CompostelaAbe met with Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy.ParisAbe met with President François Hollande. He also gave a keynote address at the OECD Ministerial Council Meeting and met Slovenian Prime Minister Alenka Bratušek.BrusselsAbe met with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and signed the Individual Partnership and Cooperation Programme between Japan and NATO. He then met with Belgian King Philippe and Belgian Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo. He also met with European Council President Herman Van Rompuy and European Commission President José Manuel Barroso.19SingaporeAbe met with US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel. He then delivered a keynote speech at the Shangri-La Dialogue. He also met with Prime MInister Lee Hsien Loong.20BrusselsAbe attended the G7 summit.RomeAbe met with Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, President Giorgio Napolitano, and Rome Mayor Ignazio Marino.Apostolic PalaceAbe met with Pope Francis, followed by a meeting with Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin.21AucklandAbe met with Prime Minister John Key.Abe delivered a speech at the Australian Parliament. He also met with Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Labor Party Leader Bill Shorten. He then travelled to Pilbara, where he toured the West Angelas mine. Afterwards, he visited Perth, where he met with Western Australia Premier Colin Barnett.Abe met with Governor-General Michael Ogio and Prime Minister Peter O’Neill. He then visited Wewak, where he met with East Sepik Governor Michael Somare.22Abe met with President Enrique Peña Nieto. He also visited the National Museum of Anthropology and the former site of Teotihuacan.Port of SpainAbe met with Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, followed by meetings with Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne and Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller. He then attended the Japan-CARICOM Summit.BogotáAbe met with President Juan Manuel Santos.SantiagoAbe met with President Michelle Bachelet.Abe met with President Dilma Rousseff. He visited São Paulo where he met São Paulo Governor Geraldo Alckmin.23DhakaAbe met with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and President Mohammad Abdul Hamid. He also received courtesy calls from Bangladesh Nationalist Party Chairperson Khaleda Zia and Jatiya Party Chairperson Rowshan Ershad.ColomboAbe met with President Mahinda Rajapaksa and visited the Parliament.24New York CityAbe delivered a speech at the general debate of the sixty-ninth session of the United Nations General Assembly.25MilanAbe attended the Asia–Europe Meeting.26BeijingAbe attended the APEC summit.NaypyidawAbe attended the ASEAN-related summits, including the ASEAN+3 Summit, ASEAN–Japan Summit, and the East Asia Summit.BrisbaneAbe attended the G20 summit.

2015 No.CountryLocationsDatesDetailsImage27CairoAbe met with President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and Prime MInister Ibrahim Mahlab.AmmanAbe met with King Abdullah II and Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour.Abe met with Prime MInister Benjamin Netanyahu. He also visited Yad Vashem.RamallahAbe met with President Mahmoud Abbas.28SingaporeAbe attended the State funeral of former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew.29JakartaAbe attended the Asian-African Summit 2015.30Abe attended a state dinner hosted by President Barack Obama. Delivered a speech at a joint session of the US Congress.31KyivAbe met with President Petro Poroshenko, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, and Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Groysman.Schloss ElmauAbe attended the G7 summit.32New York CityAbe delivered a speech at the general debate of the seventieth session of the United Nations General Assembly.Kingston33UlaanbaatarAbe met with President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj, Prime Minister Chimediin Saikhanbileg, and State Great Khural Chairman Zandaakhüügiin Enkhbold.AshgabatAbe met with President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow.DushanbeAbe met with President Emomali Rahmon.TashkentAbe met with President Islam Karimov.BishkekAbe met with President Almazbek Atambayev.AstanaAbe met with Nursultan Nazarbayev and Prime Minister Karim Massimov.34SeoulAbe attended the China–Japan–South Korea trilateral summit.35Abe met with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. He then attended the G20 summit.ManilaAbe met with President Benigno Aquino III. Also attended the APEC summit.Kuala LumpurAbe attended the ASEAN-related summits, including the ASEAN+3 Summit, ASEAN–Japan Summit, and the East Asia Summit.36ParisAbe attended the United Nations Climate Change Conference.Luxembourg CityAbe met with Prime Minister Xavier Bettel.37New DelhiAbe met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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