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is 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)
United Nations	António Guterres	Secretary-General	February 28, 2023
Italy	Giorgia Meloni	Prime Minister	December 23, 2022
Lebanon	Najib Mikati		October 25, 2021	Official visit
France	Emmanuel Macron	President	August 28–29, 2021	Baghdad Conference for Cooperation and Partnership
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
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	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	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
Australia	Julia Gillard	Prime Minister	June 28, 2009
United States	Barack Obama	President	April 7–8, 2009
Palestine	Mahmoud Abbas		April 5, 2009
France	Nicolas Sarkozy		February 10, 2009
United Nations	Ban Ki-moon	Secretary-General	February 6, 2009
United Kingdom	Gordon Brown	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	King	August 12, 2008
United Kingdom	Gordon Brown	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	Prime Minister	December 21, 2007
Poland	Donald Tusk		December 19, 2007
United Kingdom	Gordon Brown		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	Prime Minister	May 23, 2006
United Kingdom	Tony Blair		December 22, 2005
United Nations	Kofi Annan	Secretary-General	November 12, 2005
Australia	John Howard	Prime Minister	July 26, 2005	Secret visit
United Kingdom	Tony Blair		December 21, 2004
Ukraine	Viktor Yanukovych		September 2–3, 2004
Australia	John Howard		April 25, 2004
Italy	Silvio Berlusconi		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	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	President	September 7, 1988
Jordan	Hussein of Jordan	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 29 December 2022

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
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.

Most visit by Country

As of 1 January 2023

Country	Visit	Last Visit
Jordan	14*	August 28, 2021
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
Kuwait	5	August 28, 2021
France	5	August 29, 2021
Iran	4	March 14, 2019
Italy	3	December 23, 2022
Spain	3	January 30, 2019
Turkey	3	January 8, 2017
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.

See also

• List of state visits to Iran

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