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Revision as of 23:22, 17 June 2025

This is a list of international trips made by Saddam Hussein, the leader of Iraq, during his leadership as vice president and president from 1968 to 2003.

1969

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2 21 March 1971 Yemen Libya Benghazi Diplomatic visit, held talks with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi

1970

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3 21 March 1971 Lebanon Beirut Secret summit of Ba'ath Party members.[1]
4
5 4 August Soviet Union Diplomatic visit, held talks with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.[2][3]
File:Saddam Hussein and Leonid Brezhnev.jpg

1971

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6 21 March 1971 Syria Damascus Diplomatic visit, held talks with Syrian president Hafez al-Assad, Vice president Mahmoud al-Ayyubi, and Chief of Staff Mustafa Tlass
File:Saddam Hussein and Hafez al-Assad.jpg
7 November 1971 Soviet Union Moscow Diplomatic visit, held talks with Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin.

1972

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8 24 February 1972 Soviet Union Moscow Diplomatic visit, notably visited the grave of Joseph Stalin[4][5] File:Saddam Hussein in Moscow.jpg
9 27 March 1972 Egypt Cairo Diplomatic visit, held talks with Egyptian president Anwar Sadat[6]
10 19–21 June 1972 France Paris First visit to France[7][8][9]
File:Saddam in France.jpg

1973

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11 24 March 1973 Soviet Union Moscow Diplomatic visit[10]

1974

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12 14 March 1974 Soviet Union Moscow Diplomatic visit[10][11]
13 25–28 Mar 1974 India India New Delhi Diplomatic visit, held talks with Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi[12]
15 27 October 1974 Morocco Rabat Attended Arab League summit in Rabat.[13]
16 October 1974 United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi, Dubai Diplomatic visit[14] File:1974 Abu Dhabi UAE.png
30 October 1974 Algeria Algiers Celebration of of the 20th anniversary of the Algerian Revolution.[15][16][17][18]
17 November 1974 Saudi Arabia Riyadh Diplomatic visit, held talks with King Faisal and Crown Prince Fahd and reached on agreement for a neutral zone between the countries.[19]
18 10–12 December 1974 Spain Granada, Toledo, Madrid, Córdoba Diplomatic visit, at the invitation of the Caudillo of Spain, Francisco Franco[20]
File:Saddam Hussein Spain.jpg

1975

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26 11 February 1975 Kuwait Kuwait City Diplomatic visit[21]
27 6 March 1975 Algeria Algiers Attended OPEC summit and signed peace treaty with the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.[22]
28 Mauritania Nouakchott Diplomatic visit[23]
29 11 March 1975 Tunisia Tunis Diplomatic visit[24]
30 14-15 April 1975 Soviet Union Moscow Diplomatic visit[25]
29 April 1975 Iran Tehran Diplomatic visit[26]
File:Saddam & Shah (1975).png
Libya Tripoli Diplomatic visit[27]
5 May 1975 Bulgaria Sofia Diplomatic visit[28]
5—7 May 1975 Romania Bucharest Diplomatic visit, held talks with Nicolae Ceaușescu.[29][30]
7–9 May 1975 Hungary Budapest Diplomatic visit[31][32][33]
12 May 1975 East Germany Bonn Diplomatic visit[34][35]
6–9 September 1975 France Paris Visit to nuclear sites and signed agreement with France on building nuclear sites in Iraq[36][37] File:Saddam with delegates in France.jpg

1976

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26 03 January 1976 Iran Mashhad Diplomatic visit, notably visited the Imam Reza Shrine in Mashhad.[38][39]
Saddam praying at the Imam Reza Shrine – 1976
Saddam praying at the Imam Reza Shrine – 1976
19 April 1975 Kuwait Kuwait City Diplomatic visit[40]
13 December 1976 Soviet Union Moscow Diplomatic visit, held talks with Prime Minister Alexei Kosygin and other Soviet officials[41]
16 December 1976 Algeria Algiers Diplomatic visit[42]


1977

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8 1–15 February 1977 Soviet Union Moscow Held talks with Alexei Kosygin on bilateral relations[43][44][45]
13 August 1977 Kuwait Kuwait City Diplomatic visit[46]
2 December 1977 Libya Tripoli Attended a regional summit in Tripoli.
13 December 1977 France Paris Diplomatic visit, emphasized on defense ties with France.[47]

1978

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8 October 1978 Cuba Havana Diplomatic visit, included tours of cement and textile factories, and the signing of bilateral agreements[48][49]
11–13 December 1978 Soviet Union Moscow Diplomatic visit, held talks with Alexei Kosygin[50][51]

1979

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8 30 January 1979 Syria Damascus Held unification talks between Syria and Iraq[52]
Unknown Jordan Diplomatic visit[53]
23 November 1979 Algeria Algiers Diplomatic visit[54]
3–9 September Cuba Havana Attended the 6th Non-aligned Summit.[55][56][57]
File:Saddam Hussein and Yasser Arafat.jpg
20 November 1979 Tunisia Tunis Attended the Arab League summit[58]
Unknown India New Delhi Diplomatic visit

1980

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8 8 May 1980 Yugoslavia Belgrade Attended the state funeral of Josip Broz Tito along with Sa'dun Hammadi, King Carl XVI Gustaf, Ola Ullsten, Patrick Hillery and Bruno Kreisky
5 August 1980 Saudi Arabia Riyadh Secured Saudi support for the Iraqi invasion of Iran and first presidential diplomatic visit to Saudi Arabia[59][60]
25-27 November 1980 Jordan Amman Attended Arab League summit in Amman.[61][62][63] File:Saddam Hussein and Sadun Hammadi.jpg

1981

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8 7–19 August Saudi Arabia Taif Attended Islamic conference at Taif and Mecca, and briefly addressed by Saddam.[64][65]

1982

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8 24 March 1973 Soviet Union Moscow Diplomatic visit[10]
File:Saddam Hussein and Hassan al-Thani II.jpg

1983

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8 7–12 March 1983 India New Delhi Attended the 7th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement

1984

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8 24 March 1973 Soviet Union Moscow Diplomatic visit[10]

1985

Dates Country Areas visited Details Image
8 24 March 1973 Soviet Union Moscow Diplomatic visit[10]

1986

Dates Country Areas visited Details Image
8 24 March 1973 Soviet Union Moscow Diplomatic visit[10]

1987

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26 April Jordan Amman Trilateral meeting[66]
1 May Jordan Amman Trilateral meeting[66]
4 May Jordan Al-Jafr Trilateral meeting[66][67][68]
8 8–11 November Jordan Amman Diplomatic visit[10] File:Saddam Hussein, Taha Yassin Ramadan and Tariq Aziz.jpg

1988

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8 24 March 1973 Soviet Union Moscow Diplomatic visit[10] File:Saddam doing Umrah.jpg

1989

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8 24 March 1973 Soviet Union Moscow Diplomatic visit[10]
Amman Diplomatic visit[69]
15 June 1989 Attended Arab Cooperation Council meeting with Ali Abdullah Saleh, Hosni Mubarak and King Hussein.[70][71] File:Saddam, Mobarak, Saleh, and Hussein.jpg

1990

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8 24 February 1990 Jordan Amman Diplomatic visit[10] File:Saddam Hussein and King Hussein.jpg
17–19 May 1990 Yemen Sanaa Diplomatic visit[72] File:North Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh with Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.jpg
04 October 1990 Ba'athist Iraq Kuwait Iraqi-occupied Kuwait Observed his troops in the country following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.[73]
Saddam addresses Iraqi soldiers in April 1990
Saddam addresses Iraqi soldiers in April 1990
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  2. ↑ Raydan, Noam (2023-05-21). "Iraqi-Soviet Relations as Reported by Iraq Today and Al-Thawra". THE CHOKEPOINT. Retrieved 2025-05-28.
  3. ↑ https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/saddam-husseins-political-portrait-compiled-foreign-minister-frigyes-puja-prior-iraqi
  4. ↑ "Report on the Visit of Saddam Hussein to the USSR | Wilson Center Digital Archive". digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org. 24 February 1972. Archived from the original on 2025-02-11. Retrieved 2025-03-16.
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  6. ↑ Reuters 27 March 1972: Iraqi Delegation Arrives In Cairo For Talks On A Tripartite Federation (with VIDEO clip)
  7. ↑ "Chapter 5. France Sides with Iraq", The Iran-Iraq War, Harvard University Press, pp. 88–99, 2015-11-03, doi:10.4159/9780674915701-007, ISBN 978-0-674-91570-1, retrieved 2025-03-08{{citation}}: CS1 maint: work parameter with ISBN (link)
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  9. ↑ "أبرز محطات العلاقات الفرنسية العراقية". الجزيرة نت (in Arabic). Retrieved 2025-03-16.
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Report on the Visit of Saddam Hussein to Moscow | Wilson Center Digital Archive". digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org. 14 March 1974. Archived from the original on 2024-03-03. Retrieved 2025-03-16.
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  12. ↑ Raydan, Noam (2023-09-17). "Looking at Iraq-India Relations". THE CHOKEPOINT. Retrieved 2025-03-16.
  13. ↑ "Morocco: Arab Leaders Arrive for Summit Meeting in Rabat". British Pathé. 27 October 1974. Retrieved 2025-03-16.
  14. ↑ October 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...
  15. ↑ صور من زيارة الرئيس العراقي الراحل صدام حسين إلى الجزائر عام ١٩٧٤عندما كان "نائباً لرئيس مجلس قيادة الثورة آنذاك" . كي لا ننسى
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  18. ↑ A photo on October 30, 1974, the moment the martyr Saddam Hussein, Vice Chairman of the Revolution Command Board, arrived at Algeria Airport in order to participate in the celebrations of the twentieth anniversary of the Algerian Revolution, and in front of his reception was the late leader Hawari Boumadin, President of the Republic of Algeria, and Abdul Aziz Botflika, Minister of Foreign Affairs and senior citizens. Men of the State.
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  54. ↑ صورة 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.
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