List of international trips made by Saddam Hussein

This is a list of international trips made by Saddam Hussein, the former vice president and president of Iraq, from 1968 until his overthrow in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. As vice president, he made state visits to numerous countries and represented Iraq at several events. Following his accession to the seat of presidency and coinciding the Iran–Iraq War, Saddam attended various Arab League summits and global conferences. After the Gulf War, Saddam reduced his foreign visits, due to security reasons and post-war impact.https://www.meforum.org/middle-east-quarterly/saddams-engaging-smile

Summary The number of visits per country where Saddam Hussein traveled are:

One visit to Bulgaria, East Germany, Egypt, Hungary, Lebanon, North Yemen, Romania, Spain, Sudan and Yugoslavia Two visits to Algeria, Iran, Jordan, Kuwait, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Iran and Tunisia Three visits to Cuba Four visits to France and Saudi Arabia Six visits to Morocco Eight visits to the Soviet Union

1960s 1969 DatesCountryAreas visitedDetails1MoscowFirst meeting with Yevgeny Primakov2 LibyaBenghaziDiplomatic visit, met with Muammar Gaddafi321–23 December 1969RabatAttended the Arab League Summit in Rabat

1970s

1970 DatesCountryAreas visitedDetailsImage421 March 1971BeirutAttended a secret meeting along with his wife Sajida Talfah, of the Ba'ath Party leadership including Michel Aflaq and Salah al-Din al-Bitar. Dignitaries were Assistant General Secretary Shibli al-Ayssami, Iraqi president Ahmad Hasan al-Bakr and others

1971 DatesCountryAreas visitedDetails521 March 1971DamascusMet with Hafez al-Assad on King Hussein's plan of Arab Federation. Dignitaries were Hafez al-Assad, Mahmoud al-Ayyubi, Mustafa Tlass, Murtada al-Hadithi, and Saadoun Ghaidan.6November 1971MoscowFirst visit to the Soviet Union, met with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin. Delegation included Alexei Kosygin, Abdul Khaliq al-Samarra'i, Abdul Karim al-Shaikhly, and Muhammad FadhilIn the winter of 1971, Saddam Hussein made his first visit to a foreign country, arriving at the head of a large party and government delegation to the Soviet Union. He and his accompanying delegation were received by Prime Minister Kosygin and several members of the Soviet leadership. The plane landed at Moscow airport, and Saddam Hussein got out, followed by Abdul Khaliq al-Samarrai, a member of the party’s National Command, Abdul Karim al-Shaikhli, a member of the Command and Minister of Foreign Affairs, and comrades Muhammad Fadhil

(((Muhammad Fadhil, a member of the Regional Command and the Military Office, was accused of participating in the Nazim Kazar conspiracy (1973)

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1972 DatesCountryAreas visitedDetails724 February 1972MoscowDiplomatic visit, significantly visited the grave of Joseph Stalin827 March 1972CairoProposal for Union of Arab Republics instead of King Hussein's plan of King Hussein's federation plan and discussed about Iraqi support for Syria and Egypt in the Yom Kippur War against IsraelReuters 27 March 1972: Iraqi Delegation Arrives In Cairo For Talks On A Tripartite Federation (with VIDEO clip)919–21 June 1972ParisFirst visit to France

1973 DatesCountryAreas visitedDetails1024 March 1973MoscowVisited Moscow.13–15 May 1973KabulAttended Non-Aligned Standing Committee Conference.

1974 DatesCountryAreas visitedDetails1014 March 1974MoscowVisited Moscow at the invitation of the CC CPSU and the Soviet government.1125–28 Mar 1974 IndiaNew DelhiDiplomatic visit12June 1974AlgiersState visitصور من زيارة الرئيس العراقي الراحل صدام حسين

إلى الجزائر عام ١٩٧٤عندما كان "نائباً لرئيس مجلس

قيادة الثورة آنذاك" .

كي لا ننسىhttps://archive.assafir.com/ssr/1496896.html1327 October 1974RabatAttended Arab League summit14October 1974Abu Dhabi, DubaiDiplomatic visitOctober 1974: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein visits the United Arab Emirates and meets with His Highness Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, President of the UAE...15November 1974RiyadhDiplomatic visit, held talks with King Faisal and Crown Prince Fahd.1610–12 December 1974Granada, Toledo, Cordoba, MadridCaudillo of Spain, Francisco Franco, invited Saddam to Madrid and visited Granada, Córdoba and Toledo.

1975 DatesCountryAreas visitedDetailsImage1711 February 1975Kuwait CityDiplomatic visit183–5 March 1975ParisNotably had a lunch at Hotel Matignon during his meeting with the French Prime minister Jacques Chirac.196 March 1975AlgiersAttended OPEC summit and signed peace agreement with Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.Nouakchottاللقاء السري بين الزعيم بورقيبة والقائد صدام حسين في نواق الشط بموريطانيا وما ترتب عنه.2011 March 1975TunisDiplomatic visit26 March 1975RiyadhAttending funeral of King Faisal2114-15 April 1975MoscowDiplomatic visitwilsoncenter.org2229 April 1975TehranFirst diplomatic visit to Iran 23TripoliDiplomatic visit245 May 1975SofiaDiplomatic visit255—7 May 1975BucharestThree-day Diplomatic visit267–9 May 1975 HungaryBudapestTwo-day diplomatic visit2712 May 1975East BerlinDiplomatic visit286–8 September 1975ParisVisit to nuclear sites and signed agreement with France on building nuclear sites in Iraq 20–23 November 1975MadridAttended funeral of Francisco Franco

1976 DatesCountryAreas visitedDetailsImage293 January 1976MashhadVisited and prayed at the Imam Reza Shrine in Mashhad 3019 April 1975Kuwait CityDiplomatic visit25 October 1975CairoAttended Arab League summit3113 December 1976MoscowDiplomatic visit, held talks with Prime Minister Alexei Kosygin and other Soviet officials3216 December 1976AlgiersDiplomatic visit Diplomatic visit

1977 DatesCountryAreas visitedDetails331–15 February 1977MoscowFifth visit to the Soviet Union, held talks with Alexei Kosygin on bilateral relations3413 August 1977Kuwait CityDiplomatic visit2 December 1977TripoliAttended a summit with the participation of the leaders of Algeria, Iraq, Libya, the PLO and South Yemen to discuss Sadat's initiative3513 December 1977ParisSigned agreement under which Iraq purchased approximately 80 French Mirage aircraft

1978 DatesCountryAreas visitedDetails36October 1978HavanaDiplomatic visit, included tours of cement and textile factories, and the signing of bilateral agreementsصورة في تشرين الأول 1978 زيارة الشهيد صدام حسين نائب رئيس مجلس قيادة الثورة انذاك الى كوبا و كان في مقدمة استقباله الثائر العالمي و قائد الثورة الكوبية فيديل كاسترو و شملت الزيارة زيارة مصانع الأسمنت و النسيج و توقيع الاتفاقيات الثنائية و تأكيد على القتال ضد الامبريالية و الاستعمار3711–13 December 1978MoscowDiplomatic visit, held talks with Alexei Kosygin29 December 1978Algiers Attended funeral of Houari Boumédiène

1979 DatesCountryAreas visitedDetailsImage3830 January 1979DamascusUnification talks between Syria and Iraq3923 November 1979AlgiersDiplomatic visit and visiting the grave of Houari Boumédièneصورة في 23 تشرين الثاني 1979 زيارة الشهيد القائد صدام حسين رئيس الجمهورية و رئيس مجلس قيادة الثورة الى الجزائر و يظهر وهو يضع اكليلا من الزهور على قبر الزعيم الجزائري هواري بومدين مع الوقوف دقيقتي صمت تقديراً له.403–9 September 1979HavanaAttended and briefly addressed the 6th Non-aligned Summit Meeting in Havanahttps://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1980/11/28/arabs-end-divisive-summit-with-call-to-support-iraqi-war-aims/790aa3de-0b29-4842-bfbc-c15aece1059d/ 4120 November 1979TunisAttended the Arab League summit

1980s

1980 DatesCountryAreas visitedDetailsImage428 May 1980BelgradeAttended the state funeral of Josip Broz Tito along with Sa'dun Hammadi, King Carl XVI Gustaf, Ola Ullsten, Patrick Hillery and Bruno Kreisky435 August 1980RiyadhSecured Saudi support for the Iraqi invasion of Iran and first presidential diplomatic visit to Saudi Arabia4425-27 November 1980AmmanAttended Arab League summit in Amman, mainly focused on the Iran–Iraq War

1981 DatesCountryAreas visitedDetails457–9 August 1981Taif, MeccaAttended Islamic conference at Taif and Mecca, focusing on the Iran–Iraq War and the Saddam briefly addressed the summit4625 November 1981FezConvened on 25 November 1981, but was suspended and later resumed in 1981

1982 DatesCountryAreas visitedDetailsImage13 June 1982MeccaAttended the funeral of King Khalid476–9 September 1982FezAttended the Arab League summit in Fez, focusing on King Fahd's peace plan between Israel and Palestine and the prolonging Iran–Iraq War

1983 DatesCountryAreas visitedDetails487–12 March 1983New DelhiAttended the 7th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement and survived an assassination attempt by the Islamic Dawa Party as per local sources. Dignitaries included Indira Gandhi, Zia-ul-Haq, and Yasser Arafat.

1984 DatesCountryAreas visitedDetails497–9 August 1984MuscatDiplomatic visit and held talks with Sultan Qaboos bin Said in Muscat on Iran–Iraq War.

1985 DatesCountryAreas visitedDetails13 March 1985MoscowAttended funeral of Konstantin Chernenko507–9 August 1985CasablancaAttended the Arab League Extraordinary summit on Jordanian-Palestinian peace initiative.5115–17 December 1985MoscowDiplomatic visit

1986 DatesCountryAreas visitedDetails52MuscatDiplomatic visit5315 November 1986MoscowHeld negotiations with Eduard Shevardnadze.https://almsaey.akhbarelyom.com/news/newdetails/3343661/1/%D8%B5%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%85-%D8%AD%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86-%D9%8A%D9%82%D9%88%D9%85-%D8%A8%D8%A3%D9%88%D9%84-%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D9%84%D9%87-%D8%A5%D9%84%D9%89-%D9%85%D8%B5%D8%B1-%D9%85%D9%86%D8%B054UnknownMedina55Diplomatic visit

1987 DatesCountryAreas visitedDetailsImage56UnknownDiplomatic visit.4 MayAl-JafrHeld talks with Syrian president Hafez al-Assad, to mediate Iraq-Syria conflict.578–11 November 1987AmmanAttended the 16th Arab League Summit in Amman, Jordan

1988 DatesCountryAreas visitedDetailsImage5823-26 May 1988Mecca, MedinaPerformed Umrah and pilgrimage (Hajj) in Mecca and Medina 597–9 June 1988AlgiersAttended the Arab League summit24 July 1988RiyadhDiplomatic visitIraqi President Saddam Hussein's visit to Saudi Arabia on July 24, 19886028 November 1988CairoFirst visit to Egypt since assuming the presidency.

1989 DatesCountryAreas visitedDetailsImage5923-26 May 1989CasablancaAttended the Extraordinary Arab League summit in Casablanca.6025 September 1989SanaaArab Cooperation Council meeting 9 November 1989On November 9, 1989, Saddam Hussein met with the President of Vietnam. The meeting was recorded and discussed topics including the Iran-Iraq War.61December 1989Alexandria2nd round of Arab Cooperation Council meeting in Alexandria

1990s 1990 DatesCountryAreas visitedDetailsImage6227 March 1990Hafar al-Batin, RiyadhDiplomatic visit, held with talks with King FahdA rare photo of the then Emir of Riyadh, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, with the late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in Hafar Al-Batin, during the Iraqi President’s handshake with those bidding him farewell before leaving the Kingdom.

Saddam Hussein meets King Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud in his spring camp in Hafar Al-Batin in March 1990, five months before the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. The photo shows the Emir of the Eastern Province, Prince Mohammed bin Fahd bin Abdulaziz. This visit was the last foreign visit made by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein until the fall of his regime on April 9 ,

2003 . #Riyadh #Neom #Dhaline #Jeddah #Madinah #Eastern #Hail #Qassim #Al-Baha #Najran #King Abdulaziz #King Saud #King Faisal #King Khalid #King Fahd #King Abdullah #Prince Sultan #Prince Nayef #King Salman #Prince Muqrin #Mohammed bin Nayef #Mohammed bin Salman #Saudi Arabia #Iraq #Syria #Turkey #Bahrain #Qatar #Egypt #Oman63April 1990AmmanDiplomatic visit, held talks with King Hussein bin Talal. 6417 June 1990SanaaDiplomatic visit, met with Ali Abdullah Saleh 654 October 1990 KuwaitIraqi-occupied KuwaitObserved his troops in the country following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.

2000s

2000 DatesCountryAreas visitedDetails66September 2000CaracasTalks with Iranian government, to reaffirm the 1975 agreement.

2001