List of international presidential trips made by Ronald Reagan

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This is a list of international presidential trips made by Ronald Reagan, the 40th president of the United States. Ronald Reagan made 25 international trips to 26 different countries on four continents (Europe, Asia, North America, and South America) during his presidency, which began on January 20, 1981 and ended on January 20, 1989.^[1]

The number of visits per country where he travelled are:

• One visit to Barbados, Brazil, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Finland, Grenada, Honduras, Iceland, Indonesia, Ireland, Jamaica, Portugal, South Korea, Soviet Union, Spain, Switzerland
• Two visits to Belgium, Italy, Japan, Vatican City
• Three visits to United Kingdom
• Four visits to France
• Five visits to Canada
• Six visits to Mexico, West Germany

1981[]

	Dates	Country	Locations	Details
1	January 5, 1981	Mexico	Ciudad Juarez	Met with President José López Portillo. (Visit made as President-elect.)
2	March 10–11, 1981	Canada	Ottawa	State visit. Met with Governor General Edward Schreyer and Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Addressed parliament.
3	July 19–21, 1981	Canada	Ottawa, Montebello	Attended the 7th G7 summit.
4	October 21–24, 1981	Mexico	Cancun	Attended the North–South Summit on International Cooperation and Development. Met with the heads of state and government of Algeria, Bangladesh, Canada, China, France, Guyana, India, Japan, Mexico, Nigeria, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Tanzania, the United Kingdom, Venezuela and Yugoslavia.

1982[]

	Dates	Country	Locations	Details
5	April 7–8, 1982	Jamaica	Kingston	Official visit. Met with Prime Minister Edward Seaga.
	April 8–11, 1982	Barbados	Bridgetown	Official visit. Met with the prime ministers of Barbados, Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda, St. Christopher and Nevis, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
6	June 2–7, 1982	France	Paris	State visit. Met with President François Mitterrand and Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy.
	June 5–6, 1982	France	Versailles	Attended the 8th G7 summit.
	June 7, 1982	Italy	Rome	Met with President Sandro Pertini and Premier Giovanni Spadolini.
	June 7, 1982	Vatican City	Apostolic Palace	Audience with Pope John Paul II.
	June 7–9, 1982	United Kingdom	London, Windsor Castle	State visit. Met with Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Addressed Parliament.
	June 9–11, 1982	West Germany	Bonn	State visit. Met with Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and President Karl Carstens. Addressed the Bundestag and attended a meeting of the North Atlantic Council.
	June 11, 1982	West Germany	West Berlin	Met with Chancellor Helmut Schmidt.
7	October 8, 1982	Mexico	Tijuana	Exchange of visits with President-elect Miguel de la Madrid.
8	November 30 – December 3, 1982	Brazil	Brasília, São Paulo	Official working visit. Met with President João Figueiredo.
	December 3, 1982	Colombia	Bogota	Official working visit. Met with President Belisario Betancur.
	December 3–4, 1982	Costa Rica	San José	Official working visit. Met with President Luis Alberto Monge and President Álvaro Magaña of El Salvador.
	December 4, 1982	Honduras	San Pedro Sula	Official working visit. Met with President Roberto Suazo Córdova and with Guatemalan President Efraín Ríos Montt.

1983[]

	Dates	Country	Locations	Details
9	August 14, 1983	Mexico	La Paz	Informal meeting with President Miguel de la Madrid.
10	November 9–12, 1983	Japan	Tokyo	State visit. Met with Emperor Hirohito and Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone and addressed the Diet.
	November 12–14, 1983	South Korea	Seoul, Demilitarized Zone	State visit. Met with President Chun Doo-hwan. Addressed the National Assembly and visited U.S. troops.

1984[]

	Dates	Country	Locations	Details
11	April 26 – May 1, 1984	China	Beijing, Xian, Shanghai	State visit. Met with President Li Xiannian and Premier Zhao Ziyang.
12	June 1–4, 1984	Ireland	Shannon, Galway, Ballyporeen, Dublin	Met with President Patrick Hillery and Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald. Visited ancestral home. Addressed Parliament.
	June 4–10, 1984	United Kingdom	London	Attended the 10th G7 summit.
	June 6, 1984	France	Normandy	Attended commemorative ceremonies of the 40th anniversary of the Allied landing in Normandy. Also present were Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, King Olav V of Norway, King Baudouin I of Belgium, French President François Mitterrand, Queen Elizabeth II and Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg.

1985[]

	Dates	Country	Locations	Details
13	March 17–18, 1985	Canada	Quebec City	Met with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.
14	April 30 – May 4, 1985	West Germany	Bonn	Attended the 11th G7 summit.
	May 5–6, 1985	West Germany	Bonn, Bergen-Belsen, Bitburg, Hambach Castle	State visit. Attended ceremonies commemorating 40th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe.
	May 6–8, 1985	Spain	Madrid	State visit. Met with King Juan Carlos I and President Felipe González.
	May 8, 1985	France	Strasbourg	Addressed the European Parliament.
	May 8–10, 1985	Portugal	Lisbon	State visit. Met with President António Ramalho Eanes and Prime Minister Mário Soares. Addressed the National Assembly.
15	November 16–21, 1985	Switzerland	Geneva	Attended the Summit Meeting with Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. Met also with Swiss President Kurt Furgler.
	November 21, 1985	Belgium	Brussels	Attended the NATO Summit Meeting. Present were the Heads of State and Government of Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Luxembourg, Portugal, Turkey and the United Kingdom.

1986[]

	Dates	Country	Locations	Details
16	January 3, 1986	Mexico	Mexicali	Informal meeting with President Miguel de la Madrid.
17	February 20, 1986	Grenada	St. George's	Met with Governor General Paul Scoon and Prime Minister Herbert Blaize, and with the Prime Ministers of Barbados, Dominica, Jamaica, St. Lucia, St. Christopher and Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Antigua and Barbuda, and Trinidad and Tobago. Dedicated a memorial to U.S. servicemen.
18	April 29 – May 2, 1986	Indonesia	Bali	Attended the ASEAN Ministerial Meeting. Met with Indonesian President Suharto and Philippine Vice President Salvador Laurel.
	May 2–7, 1986	Japan	Tokyo	Attended the 12th G7 summit.
19	October 9–12, 1986	Iceland	Reykjavík	Pre-Summit Meeting with Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. Met with President Vigdís Finnbogadóttir.

1987[]

	Dates	Country	Locations	Details
20	April 4–5, 1987	Canada	Ottawa	State visit. Met with Governor General Jeanne Sauvé and Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. Addressed parliament.
21	June 3–11, 1987	Italy	Venice, Rome	Attended the 13th G7 summit. Met with President Francesco Cossiga and Prime Minister Amintore Fanfani in Rome.
	June 6, 1987	Vatican City	Apostolic Palace	Audience with Pope John Paul II.
	June 11–12, 1987	West Germany	West Berlin	Attended celebration's commemorating the 750th Anniversary of the founding of Berlin. Met with Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
	June 12, 1987	West Germany	Bonn	Met with Chancellor Helmut Kohl.

Ronald Reagan speaks at the Berlin Wall's Brandenburg Gate, challenging Gorbachev to "tear down this wall!"

1988[]

	Dates	Country	Locations	Details
22	February 13, 1988	Mexico	Mazatlan	Informal meeting with President Miguel de la Madrid. Signed textile agreement.
23	March 1–3, 1988	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.
24	May 25, 1988	Finland	Helsinki	Met with President Mauno Koivisto and Prime Minister Harri Holkeri.
	May 29 – June 2, 1988	Soviet Union	Moscow	Summit meeting with General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. Exchanged ratifications of the INF Treaty.
	June 2–3, 1988	United Kingdom	London	Met with Queen Elizabeth II, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita.
25	June 19–21, 1988	Canada	Toronto	Attended the 14th G7 summit.

Multilateral meetings[]

Multilateral meetings of the following intergovernmental organizations took place during Ronald Reagan's 1981–1989 presidency.

Group	Year
	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988
G7	July 20–21, Montebello	June 4–6, Versailles	May 28–30, Williamsburg	June 7–9, London	May 2–4, Bonn	May 4–6, Tokyo	June 8–10, Venice	July 20–21, Toronto
NATO	none	June 10, Bonn	none	none	November 21, Brussels	none	none	March 2–3, Brussels

See also[]

• Foreign policy of the Ronald Reagan administration
• Foreign policy of the United States

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