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.
Summary The number of visits per country where Muammar Gaddafi traveled are:
One visit: Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Benin, China, Ghana, Greece, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Hungary, Jordan, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, North Korea, Pakistan, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Spain, Sri Lanka, Togo, the United States, Ukraine, Venezuela, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Two visits: Bulgaria, France, the Gambia, Iraq, Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, Poland, Qatar, South Africa, and Uganda. Three visits: the Soviet Union, Sudan and Syria. Four visits: Chad, Ethiopia, Italy and Malta. Five visits: Algeria and Yugoslavia. Seven visits: Tunisia. Fourteen visits: Egypt.
1970s
1970 CountryAreas visitedDatesDetailsCairo11 JuneWorking visit. Met with President Gamal Abdel Nasser.CairoAugustMet with President Gamal Abdel NasserCairo21–27 SeptemberAttended the Arab League emergency summit.Cairo1 OctoberAttended the state funeral of Gamal Abdel Nasser.Damascus16 November
1971 CountryAreas visitedDatesDetailsTunis11 FebruaryWright, J. 2008. The Emergence of Libya. London: Silphium Press, 344-5
1972 CountryAreas visitedDatesDetailsFebruaryCairo1–4 MayMet with President Anwar Sadat.Tunis14–15 DecemberMet with President Habib Bourguiba.
1973 CountryAreas visitedDatesDetailsCairo7 FebruaryMet with Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and Syrian president Hafez al-Assad.Algiers5–9 SeptemberAttended the 4th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement.Belgrade, Valjevo and Sarajevo19–23 NovemberWorking visit. Met with President Josip Broz Tito. Discussed military aid and the Arab-Israeli conflict.Paris23–24 NovemberWorking visit. Met with President Georges Pompidou and Prime Minister Pierre Messmer.25–26 NovemberWorking visit.
1974 CountryAreas visitedDatesDetailsLahore22–24 FebruaryAttended the 2nd Islamic Summit of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.Niamey7–11 MarchN'Djamena11–13 MarchMet with President François Tombalbaye.Alexandria17–18 AugustWorking visit. Met with Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and Emirati president Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan.Valletta19–23 DecemberWorking visit. Opened the Libyan Arab Cultural Institute in Valletta.
1975 CountryAreas visitedDatesDetailsDecember
1976 CountryAreas visitedDatesDetails21–25 MayBelgradeJuneColombo16–19 AugustAttended the 5th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement.Moscow6–9 DecemberWorking visit. Met with General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, Premier Alexei Kosygin and Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Gromyko.
1977 CountryAreas visitedDatesDetails28 January – 1 FebruaryBrijuni21–25 JuneWorking visit. Met with President Josip Broz Tito.
1978 CountryAreas visitedDatesDetailsAlgiersFebruaryAttended the Steadfastness and Confrontation Front summit. BulgariaSofiaJuneBudapestJune PolandWarsaw1 JulyWorking visit. Met with First Secretary Edward Gierek and Chairman of the Council of State Henryk Jabłoński.Baghdad2–5 NovemberAttended the Arab League emergency summit.
1979 CountryAreas visitedDatesDetailsDamascus23 JuneMet with President Hafez al-Assad.DohaJuly
1980s
1981 CountryAreas visitedDatesDetailsMoscow27–29 AprilWorking visit. Met with General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev.Belgrade29 April–1 May EthiopiaAddis AbabaAugust
1982 CountryAreas visitedDatesDetails25 JanuaryWorking visit. Met with Prime Minister Mohammed Mzali.Vienna10–14 MarchWorking visit. PolandWarsaw15 September Working visit. Met with First Secretary Wojciech Jaruzelski.OctoberWorking visit. Met with Paramount Leader Deng Xiaoping. Visited the Great Wall of China.PyongyangOctoberWorking visit. Met with President Kim Il-sung and signed a ten-year friendship treaty.2–6 November13–18 December
1983 CountryAreas visitedDatesDetails Bulgaria17–21 JanuaryWorking visit. Signed the Bulgarian-Libyan Friendship and Co-operation Treaty. Romania21–24 JanuaryWorking visit. Met with President Nicolae Ceaușescu. BeninApril25–28 April
1984 CountryAreas visitedDatesDetailsOujda13 August 1984Met with King Hassan II. Signed the Oujda Treaty.Elounda15 November 1984Met with French president François Mitterrand and Greek prime minister Andreas Papandreou. Discussed a proposed mutual military withdrawal from the Chadian–Libyan War.
1985 CountryAreas visitedDatesDetailsMoscow10 October 1985Working visit. Met with General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev.December 1985
1986 CountryAreas visitedDatesDetailsHarare1–6 September 1986Attended the 8th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement.
1988 CountryAreas visitedDatesDetailsAlgiers7–9 June 1988Attended the Arab League emergency summit.
1989 CountryAreas visitedDatesDetailsMarrakech17 February 1989Signed the founding treaty of the Arab Maghreb Union.Mersa Matruh16 October 1989Held talks with President Hosni Mubarak and agreed to reestablish Egypt-Libya relations.
1990s
1990
CountryAreas visitedDatesDetailsSanaa22 MayMet with President Ali Abdullah Saleh.Baghdad28–30 MayAttended the Arab League summit
1991 CountryAreas visitedDatesDetailsCairo29 NovemberWorking visit. Met with President Hosni Mubarak.
1996 CountryAreas visitedDatesDetailsCairo25–27 MayMet with President Hosni Mubarak.Cairo22–23 JuneAttended the Arab League summit.
1997 CountryAreas visitedDatesDetailsAbuja and Kano8–10 MayMet with head of state Sani Abacha. Celebrated the Islamic New Year.
1998 CountryAreas visitedDatesDetailsN'Djamena30 April–5 MayMet with President Idriss Déby.
1999 CountryAreas visitedDatesDetailsCape Town, Robben Island, Pretoria and Soweto13–15 JuneMet with President Nelson Mandela. Attended the inauguration ceremony of Thabo Mbeki. Visited Robben Island.Algiers12–14 JulyAttended the Organization of African Union summit.
2000s
2000
CountryAreas visitedDatesDetailsRiyadh11–12 OctoberMet with King Fahd and Crown Prince Abdullah, discussed bilateral Libyan-Saudi Arabian relations and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
2001 CountryAreas visitedDatesDetailsAmman27–28 MarchMet with King Abdullah and attended the Arab League summit.Lusaka9–11 JulyAttended the final summit of the Organization of African Unity.
2002 CountryAreas visitedDatesDetailsDurban28 June–10 JulyMet with President Thabo Mbeki and attended the founding summit of the African Union.
2003 CountryAreas visitedDatesDetailsSharm El Sheikh1 MarchAttended the Arab League summit.Tunis19–23 MayMaputo2–12 JulyAttended the African Union summit.
2004 CountryAreas visitedDatesDetailsBrussels27–29 AprilWorking 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.Tunis22 MayAttended the Arab League summit. Withdrew from the summit following disagreements over its agenda.
2005 CountryAreas visitedDatesDetailsAlgiers22–23 MarchAttended the Arab League summit.Maputo5–7 OctoberState Visit. Met with President Armando Guebuza.
2006 CountryAreas visitedDatesDetailsKhartoum28–30 MarchAttended the Arab League summit.BamakoAprilCelebrated Mawlid.Banjul25 June–2 JulyAttended the 7th African Union summit. Mediated talks between Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir and Chadian president Idriss Déby.
2007 CountryAreas visitedDatesDetailsAccra25 June–6 JulyAttended the 9th African Union summit.Lisbon8–9 DecemberAttended the 2nd European Union–African Union Summit.Paris10–14 DecemberState visit. Met with President Nicolas Sarkozy.Madrid15–18 DecemberState visit. Met with King Juan Carlos and Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.
2008 CountryAreas visitedDatesDetailsAddis Ababa25 January–2 FebruaryAttended the African Union summit.Kampala13–17 MarchMet with President Yoweri Museveni and attended the Afro-Arab youth festival.Damascus28–29 MarchMet with President Bashar al-Assad and attended the 20th Arab League summit.Tunis4–8 AugustMet with President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Attended the inauguration of the Omar El Mokhtar housing project. Delivered a lecture at Carthage University.Moscow31 October–2 NovemberState visit. Met with Russian president Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.Minsk2–4 NovemberMet with Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko.Kiev4–6 NovemberState visit. Met with Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
2009 CountryAreas visitedDatesDetailsConakry3 JanuaryWorking visit. Met with transitional President Moussa Dadis Camara and Prime Minister Kabiné Komara.Addis Ababa26 January–3 FebruaryAttended the African Union summit. Elected Chairperson of the African Union.NouakchottMarchWorking visit. Met with President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz.Bissau12–13 MarchMet with acting President Raimundo Pereira.Doha31 MarchMet with Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and attended the 21st Arab League summit.Rome10–13 JuneState visit. Met with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.L’Aquila8–10 JulyMet with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, attended the 35th G8 Summit and held a bilateral meeting with British prime minister Gordon Brown.Sharm el-Sheikh11–16 JulyAttended the 15th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement.Banjul21–23 JulyAttended the 15th anniversary celebration of the 1994 Gambian coup d'état. Met with President Yahya Jammeh.New York City22–25 SeptemberFirst and only official visit to the United States. Addressed the Council on Foreign Relations.New York City23 SeptemberAddressed the sixty-fourth session of the United Nations General Assembly.Isla Margarita25–29 SeptemberAttended the 2nd Africa-South America Summit. Met with President Hugo Chávez.Rome16–18 NovemberAttended the United Nations World Summit on Food Security.
2010s
2010 CountryAreas visitedDatesDetails Addis Ababa25 January–2 February 2010Attended the 14th African Union summit. Kampala19–27 July 2010Attended the 15th African Union summit. Rome29 August–2 September 2010Met with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Khartoum21 December 2010Met with President Omar al-Bashir.
2011 CountryAreas visitedDatesDetails Ndjamena11 January 2011Attended the celebrations of Chad's 50th independence anniversary.
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