Alexander Lukashenko, the first and only President of Belarus, has made several international visits since he assumed office on 20 July 1994.
1990s
1994 Country Areas visited Dates DetailsMoscow3 AugustWorking visit. Met with President Boris Yeltsin and Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin.Moscow21 OctoberCouncil of Heads of State of the CISKyiv8 OctoberAttended Liberation Day celebrations. Laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.Tashkent21-23 December State visit.
1995 Country Areas visited Dates DetailsBeijingJanuary 16-19State visit. LithuaniaVilniusFebruary 6-7Official visit. Addressed the Seimas.BrusselsMarch 5–7Working visit.Copenhagen10-12 March Attended the World Summit for Social Development.Prokhorovka, Belgorod OblastMay 3Working visit.Saint PetersburgJune 19-20Working visit.ChișinăuSeptember 11-13State visit.MoscowAugust 3Working visit.New York CityOctober 22Working visit.
1996 Country Areas visited Dates DetailsStar CityJanuary 1Working visit. GermanyBerlinApril 27Working visit.MoscowFebruary 27-March 4Working visit.
1997 Country Areas visited Dates DetailsMoscowApril 1-2SeoulApril 21-23State visit.HanoiApril 23-26State visit.KyivMay 12-13State visit.Kolkata New DelhiSeptember 25-28State visit.
1998 Country Areas visited Dates DetailsBelgradeJanuary 28-30State visit.Tehran Kish IslandMarch 6-9State visit.Damascus11-13 MarchOfficial visit. Met with President Hafez al-Assad. GermanySalzgitterApril 22Working visit.CairoJune 15-16State visit.
1999 Country Areas visited Dates DetailsBelgrade14 AprilOfficial visit. Met with President Slobodan Milošević.Kaliningrad OblastOctober 14-15, Working visit.AstanaNovember 3-4State visit. TurkeyIstanbulNovember 17-191999 Istanbul summitKyivNovember 30Inauguration of Leonid Kuchma.Moscow7-8 DecemberMet with President Boris Yeltsin and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Signed the Treaty on the Creation of a Union State of Russia and Belarus.
2000s
2000 Country Areas visited Dates DetailsTripoli30 October – 1 NovemberOfficial visit. Met with Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution Muammar Gaddafi and Minister of Defense Abu-Bakr Yunis Jabr.
2001 CountryAreas visitedDatesDetailsBeijing22–24 AprilState visit. Met with General Secretary Jiang Zemin.
2002 CountryAreas visitedDatesDetailsAshgabatMayOfficial visit.Chernihiv29 MayWorking visit.Moscow14 AugustWorking visit. Met with President Vladimir Putin to discuss Russia–Belarus integration.
2003 Country Areas visited Dates DetailsSaint Petersburg30 May Attended celebrations of the 300th anniversary of Saint Petersburg. Met with President Vladimir Putin.Damascus9-10 December Official visit. Met with President Bashar al-Assad.
2004 Country Areas visited Dates DetailsKyiv27-28 OctoberAttended Liberation Day celebrations. Laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
2005 Country Areas visited Dates DetailsBeirut2-4 FebruaryState visit. Met with President Émile Lahoud and Prime Minister Omar Karami.
2006 CountryAreas visitedDatesDetailsHavana15–17 SeptemberAttended the 14th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement.Tehran5–7 NovemberOfficial visit. Met with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other Iranian officials.
2007 Country Areas visited Dates DetailsMoscow24-25 AprilWorking visit. Attended the state funeral of Boris Yeltsin.Caracas6-9 DecemberState visit. Venezuela, Belarus strike military, oil supply agreements, Taipei Times
2008 CountryAreas visitedDatesDetailsBeijing7–9 AugustAttended the opening of the 2008 Summer Olympics. Met with General Secretary Hu Jintao.
2009 Country Areas visited Dates DetailsChernihiv20 JanuaryWorking visit.Rome27-28 AprilWorking visit. Met with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.Vatican City27 AprilWorking visit. Met with Pope Benedict XVI.Vilnius16 SeptemberWorking visit. Met with President Dalia Grybauskaitė.Kiev5-6 November Working visit. Met with President Viktor Yushchenko.
2010s
2010 Country Areas visited Dates DetailsIstanbul2 OctoberWorking visit. Met with President Abdullah Gül and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
2011 CountryAreas visitedDatesDetailsAshgabat, Avaza27–29 AprilOfficial visit.Astana24–25 MayOfficial visit. Met with President Nursultan Nazarbayev.Astana12 AugustWorking visit. Attended the informal summit of CSTO heads of state.Dushanbe27–29 OctoberOfficial visit. Met with President Emomali Rahmon.Moscow19–20 DecemberAttended the Eurasian Economic Community, CSTO and CIS summits.
2012 Country Areas visited Dates DetailsCaracas27 JuneOfficial visit. Met with President Hugo Chávez.
2013 Country Areas visited Dates DetailsCaracas7-8 March Attended the state funeral of Hugo Chávez.The Case of the Missing $1.4 Billion: How Hugo Chávez’s Handshake Deals With Belarus Left Venezuela A Legacy of Wasted Public Funds, OCCRPJakarta18-20 March State visit.Kiev18 July Official visit. Met with President Viktor Yanukovych and Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Volodymyr Rybak.
2014 Country Areas visited Dates DetailsChișinău24-25 September Official visit. Met with President Nicolae Timofti.Abu Dhabi28-29 October Working visit.Moscow23 DecemberWorking visit. Attended the CIS summit and the SEEC meeting.
2015 Country Areas visited Dates DetailsMoscow3 MarchWorking visit. Attended a meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Union State.New York City26-29 SeptemberWorking visit. Visited the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. Attended the UN Summit on Sustainable Development. Addressed the general debate of the seventieth session of the United Nations General Assembly.
2016 Country Areas visited Dates DetailsRome20-21 MayWorking visit. Met with President Sergio Mattarella.Vatican City21 MayWorking visit. Met with Pope Francis.
2017 Country Areas visited Dates DetailsCairo15-16 JanuaryWorking visit. Met with President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.Kiev20-21 JulyOfficial visit. Met with President Petro Poroshenko. Visited the National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide.New Delhi11-12 SeptemberState visit. Met with President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
2018 Country Areas visited Dates DetailsChișinăuApril 18-19DushanbeMay 14-18Official visit.TashkentSeptember 13–14State visit.Dushanbe HisarSeptember 28Working visit.St. PetersburgInformal summit of the Council of Heads of State of the CIS.
2019 Country Areas visited Dates DetailsZhytomyr3-4 October 2019Working visit. Met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Attended the Second Forum of the Regions of Ukraine and the Republic of Belarus.Vienna12-13 November 2019Official visit. Met with President Alexander Van der Bellen and Chancellor Sebastian Kurz.Moscow20 December 2019Working visit. Attended the CIS summit.
2020s
2020 Country Areas visited Dates DetailsCairo19-20 February Working visit. Met with President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.Moscow24 JuneAttended the 2020 Moscow Victory Day Parade.Sochi14 SeptemberWorking level visit.
2021 CountryAreas visitedDatesDetailsSochi22 FebruaryWorking level visit.Baku13-14 AprilWorking visit.Moscow22 AprilWorking level visit.Sochi28 MayWorking level visit.Moscow9 SeptemberWorking level visit.Saint Petersburg28-29 DecemberAttended the informal CIS summit..
2022 CountryAreas visitedDatesDetailsMoscow11 MarchAttended the 25thSvobodny12 AprilWorking level visit.Moscow16 MayAttended the CSTO summit.Sochi22 MayWorking level visit.Saint Petersburg15-18 JuneAttended the 25th St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.Samarkand15-16 SeptemberAttended the SCO summit. This meeting was the occasion met with President Vladimir Putin, President Xi Jinping, President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.Sochi26 SeptemberWorking level visit.Saint Petersburg7 OctoberAttended the informal CIS summit(Concurrently serving as President Putin's birthday celebration).Dushanbe11-12 OctoberOfficial visit.Astana12-14 OctoberAttended the CIS summit.Yerevan23 NovemberAttended the CSTO summit.Saint Petersburg26-27 DecemberAttended the informal CIS summit.
2023 CountryAreas visitedDatesDetailsHarare30 January – 1 February Official visit. Met with President Emmerson Mnangagwa.BeijingFebruary 28 – 2 March Official visit. Met with General Secretary Xi Jinping.Tehran13-14 March Working visit. Met with President Ebrahim Raisi.Moscow9 May Attended the 2023 Moscow Victory Day Parade.BishkekOctober 13, Working visitDubaiDecember 12023 United Nations Climate Change Conference.BeijingDecember 3-4Working visit.Abu DhabiDecember 6Working visit.Malabo Ciudad de la PazDecember 9State visit.NairobiDecember 10Working visit.
2024 CountryAreas visitedDatesDetailsSt. PetersburgJanuary 27-2980th anniversary of the end of the Blockade of Leningrad. Union State meeting.Tashkent7-8 FebruaryWorking visit. Met with President Shavkat Mirziyoyev.Kazan21 FebruaryAttended the Games of the Future 2024.Moscow9 MayAttended the 2024 Moscow Victory Day Parade.Baku Fuzuli ShushaMay 16-17State visit.Ulaanbaatar1-4 JuneState visit.Irkutsk5 JuneWorking visit.Kazan22-24 OctoberAttended the 16th BRICS Summit.Baku12-22 NovemberAttended the 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference.Islamabad25-27 NovemberOfficial visit. Met with Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif.Astana27-28 NovemberWorking visit. Attended the CSTO summit.Muscat14-18 DecemberWorking visit. Met with Sultan Haitham bin Tariq.Abu Dhabi18-22 DecemberWorking visit. Met with Minister of State for Foreign Trade Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi and President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
2025 CountryAreas visitedDatesDetailsVolgograd29 AprilWorking visit. Met with President Vladimir Putin.Moscow8-9 MayAttended the 2025 Moscow Victory Day Parade.Beijing2-4 JuneOfficial visit. Met with General Secretary Xi Jinping.Valaam1 AugustWorking visit. Met with President Vladimir Putin. Visited the Valaam Monastery.Tianjin and Beijing31 August - 3 SeptemberAttended the 2025 Tianjin SCO summit and the 2025 China Victory Day Parade.Naypyidaw29 NovemberState visit.Algiers2 - 3 DecemberMet with President Abdelmadjid Tebbounehttps://president.gov.by/en/events/oficial-nyj-vizit-v-alzirskuu-narodnuu-demokraticeskuu-respubliku-1764745363
2026 CountryAreas visitedDatesDetailsPyongyang25-26 MarchOfficial visit. Met with Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un. Signed a friendship and cooperation treaty.Moscow8-9 MayAttended the 2026 Moscow Victory Day Parade.Astana28-29 MayWorking visit. Attended the EEU summit.Beijing28-30 JuneWorking visit.Jakarta1-2 JulyState visitNaypyidaw2 JulyWorking visit.Bishkek31 August – 1 SeptemberAttended the SCO summit and the opening ceremony of the 6th World Nomad Games.Avaza National Tourist Zone8-9 OctoberAttended the CIS summit.
Future visits CountryAreas visitedDate(s)Notes Moscow11 NovemberLukashenko is plan to attend the 2026 CSTO summit.Saint PetersburgDecemberLukashenko is plan to attend the EAEU summit and informal CIS summit.
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