Office of the Historian

Visits By Foreign Leaders in 1979

VisitorFromDescriptionDate
Prime Minister John Malcolm FraserAustraliaPrivate visit. Met with President Carter January 2.January 1–3, 1979
Prime Minister Ola UllstenSwedenPrivate visit. Met with President Carter January 18.January 16–18, 1979
Vice Premier Deng XiaopingChina, People’s Republic ofMet with President Carter and attended a State Dinner. Also traveled to Atlanta, Houston, Seattle, and Los Angeles during his visit.January 29–February 5, 1979
Prime Minister Kriangsak ChomananThailandOfficial visit. Afterwards visited New York City, Palm Springs, Los Angeles, and Honolulu. Departed February 16.February 4–8, 1979
Prime Minister Mustafa KhalilEgyptOfficial visit. Second Camp David Summit.February 20–25, 1979
Prime Minister Menachem BeginIsraelOfficial visit. Departed U.S. March 8.March 1–4, 1979
Prime Minister Pierre Elliott TrudeauCanadaPrivate visit. Discussed plans for the Northern Gas Pipeline with President Carter.March 3, 1979
Prime Minister Menachem BeginIsraelOfficial visit. Signed Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty March 26.March 23–29, 1979
President Anwar Sadat, Prime Minister Mustafa KhalilEgyptOfficial visit. Signed Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty March 26.March 24–29, 1979
Prince Joseph IILiechtensteinPrivate visit.April 30, 1979
Prime Minister Masayoshi OhiraJapanOfficial visit. Afterwards visited New York City and Los Angeles. Departed May 6.April 30–May 4, 1979
President Aristide RoyoPanamaPrivate visit. Met with President Carter May 10.May 8–11, 1979
Prime Minister Taisto K. SorsaFinlandInformal visit while serving as Chairman of the Socialist International Study Group on Disarmament.May 17, 1979
Chancellor Helmut SchmidtGermany, Federal Republic ofPrivate visit. In U.S. June 6–8. Met with President Carter June 6; visited Cambridge (Mass.), Columbia (S.C.), and New York City.June 6, 1979
Prime Minister Odvar NordliNorwayPrivate visit. Met with President Carter June 12.June 10–13, 1979
Prime Minister Abel MuzorewaZimbabwe RhodesiaUnofficial visit. Met with President Carter July 11.July 9–11, 1979
President-elect Jaime RoldosEcuadorInformal visit.July 20, 1979
President Sekou ToureGuineaPrivate visit. Met with President Carter August 8. Also visited Los Angeles, Denver, Pittsburgh, and New York City. Departed U.S. August 15.August 8, 1979
President Mobutu Sese SekoDemocratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire)Private visit; attended IMF meeting. Met with President Carter September 11.September 10–13, 1979
Prime Minister Robert D. MuldoonNew ZealandPrivate visit. Opened new Chancery.September 18–20, 1979
Junta Member Daniel OrtegaNicaraguaPrivate visit to Washington en route to U.N. General Assembly session.September 24, 1979
President William R. TolbertLiberiaPrivate visit. Met with President Carter October 2.September 25–October 2, 1979
President Jose Lopez PortilloMexicoOfficial visit.September 28–29, 1979
Pope John Paul IIVatican CityPastoral visit. In the U.S. October 1; visited Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, Des Moines, and Chicago. Met with President Carter October 6.October 6–7, 1979
Chancellor Bruno KreiskyAustriaPrivate visit.October 26, 1979
Prime Minister John M. LynchIrelandOfficial visit. In U.S. November 7–15; visited Williamsburg, Boston, New Orleans, Houston, Chicago, and New York City.November 8–10, 1979
Prime Minister Odvar NordliNorwayPrivate visit. Met with President Carter December 7.December 6–7, 1979
Prime Minister Andreas A. M. van AgtNetherlandsPrivate visit.December 7, 1979
Prime Minister Margaret ThatcherUnited KingdomOfficial visit. Afterwards visited New York City. Departed U.S. December 18.December 16–17, 1979