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President of the Philippines, 2001–2010

Arroyo with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak during her visit to South Korea in May 2009.

This is a list of foreign presidential trips made by Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, the 14th president of the Philippines from 2001 to 2010. During her ten-year presidency, Arroyo has visited a total of 44 countries. With a total of 127 foreign trips, Arroyo has made the most foreign trips by a Philippine president in office.

Summary of international trips

Map of international trips made by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo as president:   1 visit   2 visits   3 visits   4 visits   5 visits   6 visits   7 or more visits   Philippines
Number of visits Country
1 visit Belgium, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, Cuba, Denmark, Equatorial Guinea, Finland, France, India, Laos, New Zealand, Peru, Portugal, Qatar, Russia, Syria, Turkey
2 visits Australia, Bahrain, Colombia, Egypt, Libya, Saudi Arabia
3 visits Brunei, Kuwait, Mexico, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom
4 visits Italy, United Arab Emirates, Vatican City, Vietnam
5 visits Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand
7 visits Japan
15 visits China(Hong Kong)
16 visits United States

List of international trips

Date(s) Note Places visited Country Details
August 7–9 2001 State visit  Malaysia Met with Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad
August 22–24 State visit  Brunei
August 24–26 State visit  Singapore
September 12–15 Working visit  Japan Summit meeting with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and attended the 23rd Joint Conference of the Japan-Philippines Economic Cooperation Committee and the Global Business Dialogue on Electronic Commerce
October 19–22 Visit Shanghai  China Attended the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting
October 28–29 Official visit  Hong Kong
October 29–31 State visit  China
November 4–6 Visit Bandar Seri Begawan  Brunei Attended the ASEAN Summit
November 12–13 State visit  Indonesia
November 15–20 2002 Working visit  United States Met with President George W. Bush
November 21 Visit  Mexico Attended the Christian Democrats summit meeting
January 28–29 Official visit London  United Kingdom Met with Prime Minister Tony Blair
January 29 Working visit  Canada Met with Prime Minister Jean Chrétien
February Working visit New York City  United States Addressed the World Economic Forum and met with President of Israel Shimon Peres
May 7 Official visit Kuala Lumpur  Malaysia Addressed the 35th International General Meeting of Pacific Basin Economic Council
May 7–8 Official visit  Thailand
May 20–24 Working visit  Japan
October 24–25 and 27–30 Working visits  United States
October 25–27 Visit Los Cabos  Mexico Attended the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting
November 3–6 Visit Phnom Penh  Cambodia Attended the ASEAN Summit
November 6–7 State visit  Vietnam
December 2–5 State visit  Japan
February 2–3 2003 Official visit  Kuwait
February 23–25 Visit Kuala Lumpur  Malaysia Attended the Non-Aligned Movement Summit
April 4 Visit  Thailand Attended the Special ASEAN-China Leaders Meeting on SARS
May 17–23 State and working visit Los Angeles  United States Met with President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush
June 2–4 State visit  South Korea Met with President Roh Moo-hyun
June 4–6 Working visit  Japan Met with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi
September 1–3 Visit  Brunei Attended the PECC XV
September 24–26 Visit  United States Addressed the 58th United Nations General Assembly
September 27–28 Working visit  Holy See Met with Pope John Paul II
September 29 Visit  France Attended a UNESCO summit
October 6–8 Visit Bali  Indonesia Attended the 9th ASEAN Summit
October 15–16 Visit Putrajaya  Malaysia Attended the 10th Organisation of Islamic Cooperation Summit Conference
October 19–21 Visit Bangkok  Thailand Attended the 15th APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting
December 10–12 Visit Tokyo  Japan Attended the ASEAN–Japan Commemorative Summit
December 14–15 State visit  Bahrain
September 1–3 2004 State visit  China Met with President Hu Jintao Premier Wen Jiabao and Chairman Jiang Zemin of the Central Military Commission
September 8–9 Official visit  Brunei Attended the wedding of Crown prince Al-Muhtadee Billah and Pengiran Anak Sarah
October 7–9 Visit Hanoi  Vietnam Attended the 5th Asia-Europe Meeting
November 17–18 and 23 Working visit  United States
November 19–22 Visit Santiago  Chile Attended the 16th APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting
November 22–23 Official visit Mexico City  Mexico Met with President Vicente Fox and First Lady Marta Sahagún
November 28–30 Visit Vientiane  Laos Attended the 10th ASEAN Summit
January 5–6 2005 Visit  Indonesia Attended the Special ASEAN Leaders' Summit on the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
April 6–9 Official visit  Holy See Attended the funeral of Pope John Paul II
April 21–22 Visit Jakarta  Indonesia Attended the Asia-Africa Summit and Commemoration of the Golden Jubilee
August Working visit  Singapore
September 12–16 Visit  United States Addressed the United Nations General Assembly
November 17–19 Visit Busan  South Korea Attended the 10th APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting
December 11–14 Visit Kuala Lumpur  Malaysia Attended the 11th ASEAN Summit meeting with BIMP-EAGA and the First East Asia Summit
May 7–10 2006 State visit  Saudi Arabia Met with King Abdullah
June 24–25 Official visit  Holy See Met with Pope Benedict XVI
June 29–30 Official visit Madrid  Spain Met with King Juan Carlos I
July 15 Official visit Bandar Seri Begawan  Brunei Attended the 60th birthday of Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah
July 16–18 State visit Tripoli  Libya
September 9–11 Visit Helsinki  Finland Attended the 6th Asia-Europe Meeting
September 12–13 Official visit Brussels  Belgium
September 13–14 Official visit London  United Kingdom'
September 15 Official visit Havana  Cuba Met with President Fidel Castro and attended the 14th Non-Aligned Movement Summit
September 16–17 Official visit Honolulu  United States
October 27 - November 1 Visit Nanning and Hong Kong  China Attended the China Commemorative Summit in Nanning and met with ZTE officials in Hong Kong
November 17–19 Visit Hanoi  Vietnam Attended the 18th APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting
November 19–20 Working visit Singapore
January 25–26 2007 Visit Davos   Switzerland Attended the World Economic Forum
January 27 State visit  Kuwait
April 19–21 Visit Bo'ao  China Attended the Boao Forum for Asia
May 22–25 Visit Tokyo  Japan Attended the 13th International Conference on the Future of Asia
May 27–30 State visit  New Zealand
May 30–31 State visit Canberra and Melbourne  Australia
June 2–4 Private visit Rome  Holy See Met with Pope Benedict XVI and attended the canonization of Marie-Eugénie de Jésus

June Private visit Lisbon  Holy See Met with President Aníbal Cavaco Silva
June 6–7 State visit Sichuan and Chongqing  China
June 25–26 State visit  Singapore Met with President S. R. Nathan
June 26–27 State visit  Equatorial Guinea Met with President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo
August 30–31 Official visit  Malaysia Attended the 50th anniversary of Malaysian Independence
September 7–9 Visit Sydney  Australia Attended the 19th APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting
September 26–29 Visit  United States Addressed the 16th United Nations General Assembly
October 2–3 Working visit Shanghai  China Attended the 2007 Special Olympics World Summer Games
October 4–6 State visit  India
November 18–22 Visit  Singapore Attended the 13th ASEAN Summit
December 2–8 State visit  Spain
December 9–10 Working visit  Kuwait
January 22–25 2008 Working visit  Zürich and Davos   Switzerland Attended the World Economic Forum
January 26–28 Official visit  United Arab Emirates
March 30 - April 1 Working visit Hong Kong  China Addressed a keynote at the 11th Asian Investment Conference
June 21–28 Official/working visit  United States
August 7–9 Official visit Beijing  China Met with President Hu Jintao and attended the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics
September 21–27 Visit New York City  United States Addressed the 63rd United Nations General Assembly
October 23–27 Working visit Beijing  China Attended the 7th Asia-Europe Meeting
November 10–13 Working visit New York City  United States Addressed the United Nations General Assembly
November 13–16 State visit Doha  Qatar

November Working visit  United Arab Emirates

November 21–23 Visit Lima  Peru Attended the 20th APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting
November Official visit  Colombia Met with President Álvaro Uribe
November 27 Working visit  United States
January 30–31 2009 Visit Davos   Switzerland Attended the World Economic Forum
February 1–2 Working visit Milan  Italy
February 3–4 Working visit  Saudi Arabia
February 4–5 Official visit  Bahrain Met with Prime Minister Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa
February 6–7 Official visit  United States Attended a prayer conference
February 28 - March 1 Visit Pattaya  Thailand Attended the 14th ASEAN Summit
April 10–11 Visit Pattaya  Thailand Attended the reconvened 14th ASEAN Summit
April 12–14 Working visit Dubai  United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates
May 2–3 Official/working visit Cairo  Egypt Met with President Hosni Mubarak
May 4–6 State visit Damascus  Syria Met with President Bashar al-Assad and addressed the People's Council of Syria
May 11–15 Visit Manado  Indonesia Attended the Coral Triangle Initiative Summit
May 30 - June 2 Visit Jeju  South Korea Attended the Republic of Korea Commemorative Summit
June 3–5 Visit St. Petersburg  Russia Attended the XII St. Petersburg International Economic Forum and met with President Dmitry Medvedev
June 17–20 Working visit Tokyo  Japan Met with Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko and Prime Minister Tarō Asō
June 22–25 State visit Brasília Recife, Rio de Janeiro  Brazil Met with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva President José Sarney of the Federal Senate and President Michel Temer of the Chamber of Deputies
July 15–16 Visit Sharm el-Sheikh  Egypt Attended the 15th Non-Aligned Movement Summit
July 30–31 Official visit Washington, D.C.  United States Met with President Barack Obama
August 28 - September 1 Official visit Tripoli  Libya Attended the African Union Summit and ceremonies for the 40th anniversary of the 1969 Libyan coup d'état; met with Prime Minister Muammar Gaddafi President Mahinda Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka, and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani of Pakistan
September 16–17 Working visit Ankara  Turkey Met with President Abdullah Gül
September 17–20 Visit  United Kingdom Delivered a keynote address at The Economist's "The Emerging Markets Summit" event
September 21–23 Official visit Jeddah  Saudi Arabia Attended the inauguration of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Thuwal
November 13–15 Visit  Singapore Attended the 21st APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting
November 17–18 Visit Pattaya  Thailand Attended the 15th ASEAN Summit
December 16–19 Visit Copenhagen  Denmark Attended the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference
April 8–9 2010 Visit Hanoi  Vietnam Attended the 16th ASEAN Summit
April 12–13 Visit Washington, D.C.  United States Attended the Nuclear Security Summit
April 14–15 Official visit Madrid  Spain Awarded the Don Quixote de la Mancha Award by King Juan Carlos I of Spain
June 8–9 Visit Shanghai  China Visited the Expo 2010

See also

References

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