List of international presidential trips made by George H. W. Bush

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This is a list of international presidential trips made by George H. W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States. George H. W. Bush made 26 international trips to 58 different countries on six continents—Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America—during his presidency, which began on January 20, 1989 and ended on January 20, 1993.^[1]

Summary[]

The number of visits per country where he travelled are:

• One visit to Argentina, Australia, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, Greece, Hungary, Malta, Martinique, Mexico, Panama, Russia, Saint Martin, Singapore, Somalia, Soviet Union, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Uruguay, and Venezuela
• Two visits to Belgium, Bermuda, Brazil, Finland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, South Korea, and Vatican City
• Three visits to Germany and the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia
• Four visits to Canada, and France

World map highlighting countries visited by George H. W. Bush while president.

1989[]

	Dates	Country	Locations	Details
1	February 10, 1989	Canada	Ottawa	Met with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.
2	February 23–25, 1989	Japan	Tokyo	Attended the funeral of Emperor Hirohito. Met with Emperor Akihito of Japan, the kings of Belgium, Jordan and Spain, the presidents of Brazil, Egypt, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Israel, Italy, Nigeria, the Philippines, Portugal and Zaire, and the prime ministers of Japan, Pakistan, Singapore, Thailand and Turkey.
	February 25–27, 1989	China	Beijing	Met with President Yang Shangkun and Premier Li Peng. Also met with Prince Sihanouk of Cambodia.
	February 27, 1989	South Korea	Seoul	Official visit. Addressed the National Assembly.
3	May 26–28, 1989	Italy	Rome, Nettuno	Met with President Francesco Cossiga and Prime Minister Ciriaco De Mita.
	May 27, 1989	Vatican City	Apostolic Palalce	Audience with Pope John Paul II.
	May 28–30, 1989	Belgium	Brussels	Attended the NATO Summit Meeting. Present were the heads of state and government of Canada, Denmark, France, Federal Republic of Germany, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, and the United Kingdom.
	May 30–31, 1989	West Germany	Bonn, Mainz	Met with Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
	May 31 – June 2, 1989	United Kingdom	London	Met with Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
4	July 9–11, 1989	Poland	Warsaw, Gdańsk	Met with government and Solidarity leaders. Addressed the National Assembly.
	July 11–13, 1989	Hungary	Budapest	Met with Hungarian officials. Delivered an address at Karl Marx University.
	July 13–17, 1989	France	Paris	Attended the 15th G7 summit. Also attended ceremonies for the bicentennial of the French Revolution. Met with Ivorian President Félix Houphouët-Boigny.
	July 17–18, 1989	Netherlands	The Hague Leiden	Met with Queen Beatrix and Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers. Delivered a public address.
5	October 27–28, 1989	Costa Rica	San José	Attended the Hemispheric Summit Meeting.
6	December 1–3, 1989	Malta	Valletta, Marsaxlokk	Attended the Summit Meeting with Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. Also met with Maltese Prime Minister Eddie Fenech Adami.
	December 3–4, 1989	Belgium	Brussels	Attended the NATO Summit Meeting, and briefed leaders on the Malta U.S.-Soviet Summit Meeting.
7	December 16, 1989	Saint Martin	Marigot	Informal meeting with President François Mitterrand.

1990[]

	Dates	Country	Locations	Details
8	February 15, 1990	Colombia	Cartagena	Attended the Summit Meeting on the Control of Illicit Drug Trafficking with the President Virgilio Barco Vargas, Bolivian President Jaime Paz Zamora and Peruvian President Alan García Pérez.
9	April 10, 1990	Canada	Toronto	Informal meeting with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.
10	April 13–14, 1990	Bermuda	Hamilton	Informal meeting with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
11	July 5–6, 1990	United Kingdom	London	Attended the NATO Summit Meeting.
12	September 8–9, 1990	Finland	Helsinki	Attended Summit Meeting with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. Issued joint statement on the Persian Gulf crisis. Also met with President Mauno Koivisto.
13	November 17, 1990	Czechoslovakia	Prague	Attended ceremonies commemorating the first anniversary of the Velvet Revolution. Addressed the Federal Assembly.
	November 18, 1990	Germany	Speyer, Ludwigshafen	Met with Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
	November 18–21, 1990	France	Paris	Attended the CSCE Summit Meeting and the signing of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe.
	November 21–22, 1990	Saudi Arabia	Jeddah, Dhahran	Met with King Fahd and the Amir of Kuwait. Addressed U.S. and British military personnel in eastern Saudi Arabia.
	November 22–23, 1990	Egypt	Cairo	Discussed the Persian Gulf crisis with President Hosni Mubarak.
	November 23, 1990	Switzerland	Geneva	Discussed the Persian Gulf crisis with Syrian President Hafez al-Assad.
14	November 26–27, 1990	Mexico	Monterrey, Agualeguas	State visit. met with President Carlos Salinas de Gortari.
15	December 3–4, 1990	Brazil	Brasília	Met with President Fernando Collor de Mello. Addressed a Joint Session of the Brazilian Congress.
	December 4–5, 1990	Uruguay	Montevideo	Met with President Luis Alberto Lacalle. Addressed a Joint Session of the Uruguayan Congress.
	December 5–6, 1990	Argentina	Buenos Aires	Met with President Carlos Menem. Addressed a Joint Session of the Argentinean Congress.
	December 6–7, 1990	Chile	Santiago	Met with President Patricio Aylwin. Addressed a Joint Session of the Chilean Congress.
	December 7–8, 1990	Venezuela	Caracas	Met with President Carlos Andres Perez.

President Bush visited American troops in Saudi Arabia on Thanksgiving Day, 1990.

1991[]

	Dates	Country	Locations	Details
16	March 13–14, 1991	Canada	Ottawa	Met with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. Signed an Air Quality Agreement.
17	March 14, 1991	Martinique	Fort-de-France	Discussed the Middle East peace process with President François Mitterrand.
	March 14–16, 1991	Bermuda	Hamilton	Discussed the Middle East peace process with Prime Minister John Major.
18	July 9, 1991	Canada	Toronto	Informal Meeting with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.
19	July 14, 1991	France	Rambouillet	Discussed further sanctions against Iraq with President François Mitterrand.
	July 14–18, 1991	United Kingdom	London	Attended the 17th G7 summit. Also met with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.
	July 18–20, 1991	Greece	Athens, Souda Bay	Met with Prime Minister Konstantinos Mitsotakis. Addressed U.S. and Greek military personnel.
	July 20–21, 1991	Turkey	Ankara, Istanbul	Met with President Turgut Ozal.
20	July 29 – August 1, 1991	Soviet Union	Moscow Kiev	Attended the U.S.-Soviet Summit Meeting. Signed 1st Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. Addressed the Ukrainian Parliament.
21	October 29–30, 1991	Spain	Madrid	Met with Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez Marquez and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. Attended the opening session of the Middle East Peace Conference.
22	November 6–8, 1991	Italy	Rome	Attended the NATO Summit Meeting.
	November 8, 1991	Vatican City	Apostolic Palace	Audience with Pope John Paul II.
	November 8–9, 1991	Netherlands	The Hague	Attended the European Community summit Meeting.

1992 / 1993[]

	Dates	Country	Locations	Details
23	December 31, 1991 – January 3, 1992	Australia	Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne	Met with Prime Minister Paul Keating and senior Australian officials. Addressed the Australian Parliament.
	January 3–5, 1992	Singapore	Singapore	Met with President Wee Kim Wee and Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. Attended a meeting of the ASEAN Business Council.
	January 5–7, 1992	South Korea	Seoul	Met with President Roh Tae-woo and senior South Korean officials. Signed a science and technology agreement. Addressed the South Korean National Assembly. Visited U.S. military personnel.
	January 7–10, 1992	Japan	Kyoto, Kashihara, Tokyo	Met with Emperor Akihito, Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa and senior Japanese officials.
24	June 11, 1992	Panama	Panama City	Met with President Guillermo Endara. Delivered public addresses.
	June 12–13, 1992	Brazil	Rio de Janeiro	Attended the Earth Summit Meeting.
25	July 5, 1992	Poland	Warsaw	Met with President Lech Wałęsa. Attended a memorial service for former Prime Minister Ignacy Jan Paderewski.
	July 5–8, 1992	Germany	Munich	Attended the 18th G7 summit. Also met with Russian President Boris Yeltsin.
	July 8–10, 1992	Finland	Helsinki	Attended the CSCE Summit Meeting.
26	December 31, 1992	Saudi Arabia	Riyadh	Met with King Fahd.
	December 31, 1992 – January 2, 1993	Somalia	Mogadishu, Baidoa,	Visited international relief workers and U.S. military personnel.
	January 2–3, 1993	Russia	Moscow	Signed the START II Treaty.
	January 3–5, 1993	France	Paris	Discussed the Bosnian crisis with President François Mitterrand.

Multilateral meetings[]

Multilateral meetings of the following intergovernmental organizations took place during George H. W. Bush's 1989–1993 presidency.

Group	Year
	1989	1990	1991	1992
G7	July 14–16, Paris	July 9–11, Houston	July 15–17, London	July 8–10, Munich
NATO	May 29–30, Brussels	July 5–6, London	November 7–8, Rome	none
	December 4, Brussels
OSCE	November 19–21, Paris	none	none	July 9–10, Helsinki

See also[]

• Foreign policy of the George H. W. Bush administration
• Foreign policy of the United States

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