Rex W. Tillerson - Travels of the
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Rex W. Tillerson
| Country | Locale | Remarks | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | Bonn | Attended a G-20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting. | February 15–17, 2017 |
| Mexico | Mexico City | Discussed bilateral relations with President Enrique Pena Nieto and Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray. Was joined by Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly. | February 22–23, 2017 |
| Japan | Tokyo | Met with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida. | March 15–16, 2017 |
| Korea, Republic of | Seoul | Met with Acting President Hwang Kyo-ahn and Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se. Visited the Demilitarized Zone. | March 17–18, 2017 |
| China, People’s Republic of | Beijing | Met with Xi Jinping, Foreign Minister Wang Yi and State Counselor Yang Jiechi. | March 18–19, 2017 |
| Turkey | Ankara | Met with President Recep Erdogan, Prime Minister Binali Yilderim, and Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu. | March 30–31, 2017 |
| Belgium | Brussels | Attended a NATO Ministerial Meeting. | March 31, 2017 |
| Italy | Lucca | Attended a G-7 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting. | April 9–11, 2017 |
| Russia | Moscow | Met with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and President Vladimir Putin. | April 11–13, 2017 |
| Saudi Arabia | Riyadh | Accompanied President Trump. | May 20–22, 2017 |
| Israel | Jerusalem | Accompanied President Trump. | May 22–23, 2017 |
| Palestinian Authority | Bethlehem | Accompanied President Trump. | May 23, 2017 |
| Italy | Rome | Accompanied President Trump. | May 23–24, 2017 |
| Vatican City | Accompanied President Trump. | May 24, 2017 | |
| Italy | Taormina | Accompanied President Trump to the G-7 Economic Summit. | May 25–26, 2017 |
| United Kingdom | London | Met with Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson. Signed book of condolences for the Manchester terrorist attack. | May 26, 2017 |
| Australia | Sydney | Attended the Australia-U.S. Ministerial Consultations. | June 5–6, 2017 |
| New Zealand | Wellington | Met with Prime Minister Bill English and Foreign Minister Gerry Brownlee. | June 6–7, 2017 |
| Germany | Hamburg | Accompanied President Trump to the G-20 Summit. | July 5–9, 2017 |
| Turkey | Istanbul | Met with President Recep Erdogan and Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu. | July 9–10, 2017 |
| Ukraine | Kyiv | Met with President Petro Poroshenko. | July 9, 2017 |
| Kuwait | Kuwait City | Met with Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah and senior Kuwaiti officials. | July 10–11, 2017 |
| Qatar | Doha | Met with Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani. Signed MOU to prevent financing of terrorism. | July 11, 2017 |
| Saudi Arabia | Jeddah | Met with King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and the Foreign Ministers of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt. | July 11–12, 2017 |
| Kuwait | Kuwait City | Met with Foreign Minister Sabah al-Khalid al-Sabah. | July 12–13, 2017 |
| Qatar | Doha | Met with Emir Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani. | July 13, 2017 |
| Philippines | Manila | Attended the U.S.-ASEAN Ministerial Meeting. | August 6–8, 2017 |
| Thailand | Bangkok | Met with Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-Cha and Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai. | August 8, 2017 |
| Malaysia | Kuala Lumpur | Met with Deputy Prime Minister Zahid Hamidi. | August 8–9, 2017 |
| United Kingdom | London | Attended a Six-Party Ministerial meeting on Libya. Met with Prime Minister Theresa May. | September 14, 2017 |
| China, People’s Republic of | Beijing | Met with President Xi Jinping, Foreign Minister Wang Yi, and State Councilor Yang Jiechi. | September 30–October 1, 2017 |
| Saudi Arabia | Riyadh | Met with King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir. Attended the first meeting of the Saudi Arabia-Iraq Coordination Council. | October 21–22, 2017 |
| Qatar | Doha | Met with Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim al-Thani. | October 22–23, 2017 |
| Afghanistan | Bagram | Met with President Ashraf Ghani. | October 23, 2017 |
| Iraq | Baghdad | Met with Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi. | October 23, 2017 |
| Pakistan | Islamabad | Met with senior Pakistani officials. | October 24, 2017 |
| India | New Delhi | Met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj. | October 25, 2017 |
| Switzerland | Geneva | Met with UN Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi, and International Committee of the Red Cross President Peter Maurer. | October 26, 2017 |
| Japan | Tokyo | Accompanied President Trump. | November 5–7, 2017 |
| Korea, Republic of | Seoul | Accompanied President Trump. | November 5–8, 2017 |
| China, People’s Republic of | Beijing | Accompanied President Trump. | November 8–10, 2017 |
| Vietnam | Danang, Hanoi | Accompanied President Trump to an APEC Meeting. | November 10–12, 2017 |
| Philippines | Manila | Accompanied President Trump to ASEAN Summit Meetings. | November 12–14, 2017 |
| Burma | Nay Pyi Taw | Met with State Councilor Aung San Suu Kyi and Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlang. | November 15, 2017 |
| Belgium | Brussels | Attended a NATO Foreign Ministers Meeting and met with EU Foreign Ministers. | December 4–6, 2017 |
| Austria | Vienna | Attended an OSCE Ministerial Council Meeting. | December 7, 2017 |
| France | Paris | Attended the International Support Group for Lebanon Ministerial Meeting and met with President Emmanuel Macron and Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian. | December 8, 2017 |
| Canada | Ottawa | Met with President Justin Trudeau and Foreign Minister Chrystia Freedland. | December 19, 2017 |
| Canada | Vancouver | Co-hosted the Vancouver Foreign Ministers’ Meeting on Security and Stability on the Korean Peninsula with Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland. | January 15–17, 2018 |
| United Kingdom | London | Met with Prime Minister Theresa May, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, and National Security Advisor Mark Sedwill. | January 21–22, 2018 |
| France | Paris | Met with senior French officials and attended the launch of the International Partnership against Impunity for the Use of Chemical Weapons. | January 23–24, 2018 |
| Switzerland | Davos | Attended the 2018 World Economic Forum. | January 24–26, 2018 |
| Poland | Warsaw | Discussed bilateral relations with senior Polish officials. | January 26–27, 2018 |
| Mexico | Mexico City | Met with President Enrique Peña Nieto and Foreign Secretary Luis Videgaray. | February 1–2, 2018 |
| Argentina | San Carlos de Bariloche, Buenos Aires | Met with President Mauricio Macri and Foreign Minister Jorge Faurie. | February 3–4, 2018 |
| Peru | Lima | Met with President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and Foreign Minister Cayetana Aljovin. | February 5–6, 2018 |
| Colombia | Bogota | Met with President Juan Manuel Santos and Foreign Minister Maria Angela Holguin. | February 6, 2018 |
| Jamaica | Kingston | Met with Prime Minister Andrew Holness and Foreign Minister Kamina Johnson-Smith. | February 7, 2018 |
| Egypt | Cairo | Met with senior Egyptian officials. | February 12, 2018 |
| Kuwait | Kuwait City | Led the U.S. delegation to the Ministerial meeting of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS in Kuwait and participated in the Iraq Reconstruction Conference. | February 12–13, 2018 |
| Jordan | Amman | Met with King Abdullah II and Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman al-Safadi. | February 14, 2018 |
| Lebanon | Beirut | Met with Lebanese President Michel Aoun, Prime Minister Saad Hariri, and Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri. | February 15, 2018 |
| Turkey | Ankara | Met with senior Turkish officials. | February 15–16, 2018 |
| Ethiopia | Addis Ababa | Met with Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, Ethiopian Foreign Minister Workneh Gebeyehu, and African Union Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat. | March 6–8, 2018 |
| Djibouti | Djibouti City | Met With Djiboutian President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh and Foreign Minister Mahamoud Ali Youssouf. | March 9, 2018 |
| Kenya | Nairobi | Met with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and Foreign Minister Monica Juma. | March 9–11, 2018 |
| Chad | N’Djamena | Met with Chadian President Idriss Deby and Foreign Minister Mahamat Zene Cherif. | March 12, 2018 |
| Nigeria | Abuja | Met with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari and Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama. | March 12, 2018 |