List of state visits to Iraq until December 31, 2022.

This is a list of foreign heads of state, heads of government who have visited the Iraq, which is classified by the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs as either a state visit, official visit, or working visit.

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Summary of visits

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Country Guest Title Date Significance
• Republic of Iraq (2003–present)
 Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan President April 22–23, 2024 Official visit
 Spain Pedro Sanchez Prime Minister December 28, 2023
 Jordan Bisher al-Khasawneh July 24, 2023
 United Nations António Guterres Secretary-General February 28, 2023
 Italy Giorgia Meloni Prime Minister December 23, 2022
 Lebanon Najib Mikati[1] October 25, 2021 Official visit
 France Emmanuel Macron President August 28–29, 2021 Baghdad Conference for Cooperation and Partnership[2]
 Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi August 28, 2021
 Jordan Abdullah II of Jordan King
 Qatar Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani Emir
 United Arab Emirates Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Prime Minister
 Kuwait Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah
 Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi President June 28, 2021 Egypt-Jordan-Iraq summit[3]
 Jordan Abdullah II of Jordan King
 Vatican City Pope Francis Pope March 5–8, 2021
 France Emmanuel Macron President September 2, 2020 Official visit
 Australia David Hurley Governor-General December 20, 2019
 Norway Erna Solberg Prime Minister October 21, 2019
 Kuwait Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah Emir June 19, 2019
 Iran Hassan Rouhani[4] President March 11–14, 2019
 Palestine Mahmoud Abbas March 3–4, 2019
 Spain Felipe VI of Spain King January 30, 2019 Official visit
 Canada Julie Payette Governor-General January 20-21, 2019
 Jordan Abdullah II of Jordan King January 13, 2019
 United States Donald Trump President December 26, 2018
 Australia Scott Morrison Prime Minister December 20, 2018 Secret visit
Peter Cosgrove Governor-General November 7, 2018
February 26, 2018
 Lebanon Michel Aoun President February 20–21, 2018 Official visit
 United Kingdom Theresa May Prime Minister November 29, 2017
 Czech Republic Bohuslav Sobotka August 26–27, 2017 Official visit
 Australia Malcolm Turnbull April 24, 2017
 United Nations António Guterres Secretary-General March 30–31, 2017
 Turkey Binali Yıldırım Prime Minister January 7–8, 2017 Official visit
 France François Hollande President January 2, 2017
 Sweden Stefan Löfven Prime Minister October 24–25, 2016
 Netherlands Mark Rutte August 9, 2016 Secret visit
 United Nations Ban Ki-moon Secretary-General March 26, 2016
 New Zealand John Key Prime Minister October 6–8, 2015 Secret visit
 Australia Peter Cosgrove Governor-General August 9, 2015
 Canada Stephen Harper Prime Minister May 2, 2015
 United Nations Ban Ki-moon Secretary-General March 30, 2015
 Australia Tony Abbott[5] Prime Minister January 4, 2015
 Turkey Ahmet Davutoğlu Prime Minister November 20–21, 2014
 France François Hollande President September 12, 2014
 Italy Matteo Renzi Prime Minister August 20, 2014
 Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad President July 18–19, 2013 Official visit
 United Nations Ban Ki-moon Secretary-General December 6, 2012
Ban Ki-moon March 27–29, 2012 23rd Arab League summit
 Arab League Nabil Elaraby
 Kuwait Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah Emir
 Lebanon Michel Suleiman President
 Palestine Mahmoud Abbas
 Tunisia Moncef Marzouki
 Mauritania Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz
 Sudan Omar al-Bashir
 Djibouti Ismaïl Omar Guelleh
 Somalia Sharif Sheikh Ahmed
 Comoros Ikililou Dhoinine
 Libya Mustafa Abdul Jalil Chairman
 Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Prime Minister March 28–29, 2011
 Australia Julia Gillard[6] June 28, 2009
 United States Barack Obama President April 7–8, 2009
 Palestine Mahmoud Abbas April 5, 2009
 France Nicolas Sarkozy[7] February 10, 2009
 United Nations Ban Ki-moon Secretary-General February 6, 2009
 United Kingdom Gordon Brown[8] Prime Minister December 17, 2008
 United States George W. Bush President December 14, 2008
 Lebanon Fouad Siniora Prime Minister August 20, 2008
 Jordan Abdullah II of Jordan[9] King August 12, 2008
 United Kingdom Gordon Brown[10] Prime Minister July 19, 2008
 Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan July 10, 2008
 Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad President March 1–2, 2008 Official visit
 Australia Kevin Rudd[11] Prime Minister December 21, 2007
 Poland Donald Tusk[12] December 19, 2007
 United Kingdom Gordon Brown[13][14] December 9, 2007
October 3, 2007
 United States George W. Bush President September 3, 2007
 United Kingdom Tony Blair Prime Minister May 19, 2007
 Poland Jarosław Kaczyński May 16, 2007
 United Nations Ban Ki-moon Secretary-General March 22, 2007 Secret visit
 Poland Jarosław Kaczyński Prime Minister December 20, 2006
 Romania Traian Băsescu President August 9, 2006
 United States George W. Bush June 13, 2006
 Denmark Anders Fogh Rasmussen[15] Prime Minister May 23, 2006
 United Kingdom Tony Blair December 22, 2005
 United Nations Kofi Annan Secretary-General November 12, 2005
 Australia John Howard[16] Prime Minister July 26, 2005 Secret visit
 United Kingdom Tony Blair December 21, 2004
 Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych[17] September 2–3, 2004
 Australia John Howard[18] April 25, 2004
 Italy Silvio Berlusconi[19] April 20, 2004
 Netherlands Jan Peter Balkenende January 7, 2004 Secret visit
 United Kingdom Tony Blair January 4, 2004
 Spain José María Aznar December 20, 2003 Secret visit
 United States George W. Bush President November 27, 2003
 United Kingdom Tony Blair Prime Minister May 29, 2003
• Ba'athist Iraq (1968-2003)
 Venezuela Hugo Chavez[20] President August 10, 2000 Official visit
 United Nations Kofi Annan Secretary-General February 20–22, 1998
 Palestine Yasser Arafat Chairman February 3–4, 1993
January 1992
 Algeria Chadli Bendjedid President December 1990
 Palestine Yasser Arafat Chairman October 13–14, 1990
August, 1990
 Austria Kurt Waldheim President August 25, 1990
 Jordan Hussein of Jordan King August 14, 1990
August 3, 1990
 Egypt Hosni Mubarak President July 24, 1990 Diplomatic visit
 Jordan Hussein of Jordan King July 17, 1990
 Arab League Chedli Klibi Secretary-General May 28–30, 1990 1990 Arab League summit
 Kuwait Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah Emir
 Jordan Hussein of Jordan King
 Saudi Arabia Fahd of Saudi Arabia King & Prime Minister
 Egypt Hosni Mubarak President
 Libya Muammar Gaddafi
 Yemen Ali Abdullah Saleh
 Tunisia Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
 Somalia Siad Barre
 Palestine Yasser Arafat Chairman
 Saudi Arabia Fahd of Saudi Arabia King & Prime Minister Late May–June 1, 1989 Official visit
 Bahrain Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa Prime Minister 1989
 Egypt Hosni Mubarak President October 24, 1988 Arafat-Hussein-Mubarak summit
 Palestine Yasser Arafat Chairman
 Egypt Hosni Mubarak[21] President September 7, 1988
 Jordan Hussein of Jordan[22] King September 6, 1987
 Palestine Yasser Arafat Chairman 1987
 Egypt Hosni Mubarak President March 18, 1985
 Jordan Hussein of Jordan King
 Romania Nicolae Ceaușescu President June 13, 1982
 Palestine Yasser Arafat Chairman September 25, 1980
 Mali Moussa Traoré President February 11, 1980 Official visit
 Palestine Yasser Arafat Chairman March 29, 1979
 Syria Hafez al-Assad President November 2–5, 1978 9th Arab League summit
 Lebanon Élias Sarkis
Selim Hoss Prime Minister
 South Yemen Ali Nasir Muhammad
 Kuwait Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah Emir
 Jordan Hussein of Jordan King
 Libya Muammar Gaddafi Chairman
 Palestine Yasser Arafat
 Syria Hafez al-Assad President October 24, 1978 Official visit
 Spain Juan Carlos I King 1978
 Jordan Hussein of Jordan
 Austria Bruno Kreisky Chancellor March 16, 1976 Official visit
 France Jacques Chirac Prime Minister February 17-18, 1975
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing President
 United Nations Kurt Waldheim Secretary-General February 20, 1975
 India Indira Gandhi Prime Minister January 18–21, 1975 Official visit
 Cuba Fidel Castro President September 10, 1973
 Syria Hafez al-Assad 1973
• Kingdom of Iraq (1924–1958)
 Jordan Hussein of Jordan King 1958
 Iran Mohammad Reza Shah Shah March 11–12, 1955 Official visit
 Transjordan Abdullah I of Jordan King November 27, 1941

Most visited Official

As of 23 April 2024
Country Official Visit Last Visit
 Palestine Yasser Arafat 10 February 4, 1993
 Jordan Hussein of Jordan 9* August 14, 1990
 Egypt Hosni Mubarak 5 24 July, 1990
 United Kingdom Tony Blair 5 May 19, 2007
 United Kingdom Gordon Brown 4 December 17, 2008
 United States George W. Bush 4 December 14, 2008
 Jordan Abdullah II of Jordan 4 August 28, 2021
 Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 3 April 23, 2024
 Palestine Mahmoud Abbas 3 March 4, 2019
 Australia Peter Cosgrove 3 November 7, 2018
 Syria Hafez al-Assad 3 November 5, 1978
 France Emmanuel Macron 2 August 29, 2021
 Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi 2 August 28, 2021
 Kuwait Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah 2 June 19, 2019
 Kuwait Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah 2 May 30, 1990
 Saudi Arabia Fahd of Saudi Arabia 2 May 30, 1990
 Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 2 July 19, 2013
 Libya Muammar Gaddafi 2 May 30, 1990
 France François Hollande 2 January 2, 2017
 Poland Jarosław Kaczyński 2 May 16, 2007
 Australia John Howard 2 July 26, 2005
*Hussein of Jordan visited Baghdad 61 times between 1980 and 1990.[23]

Most visit by Country

As of 23 April 2024
Country Visit Last Visit
 Jordan 15* July 24, 2023
 Palestine 13 March 4, 2019
 Australia 11 December 20, 2019
 United Kingdom 10 November 29, 2017
 Egypt 7 August 28, 2021
 United States 6 December 26, 2018
 Lebanon 6 October 25, 2021
 France 6 August 29, 2021
 Turkey 5 April 23, 2024
 Kuwait 5 August 28, 2021
 Iran 4 March 14, 2019
 Italy 3 December 23, 2022
 Spain 3 January 30, 2019
 Libya 3 March 29, 2012
 Poland 3 December 19, 2007
 Syria 3 November 5, 1978
*Hussein of Jordan visited Baghdad 61 times between 1980 and 1990.[23]

See also

References

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