List of international prime ministerial trips made by Rishi Sunak

This is the list of international prime ministerial trips made by Rishi Sunak, who has served as the 57th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 25 October 2022. Rishi Sunak has made twenty two international trips to twenty one countries during his premiership.

Summary

The number of visits per country where Prime Minister Sunak travelled are:

One: Austria, Estonia, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Sweden, United Arab Emirates.
Two: Egypt, France, Germany, Ukraine, United States.

Map of international trips made by Rishi Sunak as prime minister: (January 2024)

United Kingdom

1 visit

2 visits

2022

#	Country	Location	Date	Details
1	Egypt	Sharm El Sheikh	6–7 November	Sunak attended the high level segment of COP27.^[1]
2	Indonesia	Bali	14–16 November	Sunak attended the 2022 G20 summit.^[2]
3	Ukraine	Kyiv	19 November	Sunak travelled to Kyiv to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and pledged £50 million in aid.^[3]
4	Latvia	Riga	19 December	Sunak attended a Joint Expeditionary Force leaders summit.^[4]
4	Estonia	Tallinn	19 December	Sunak met with British troops.^[5]

2023

#	Country	Location	Date	Details
5	Germany	Munich	18 February	Sunak attended the 59th Munich Security Conference.^[6]
6	France	Paris	10 March	Sunak travelled by Eurostar to Paris to meet with President Emmanuel Macron for a UK–France Summit.^[7] It was the first time a British Prime Minister had travelled to Paris for a summit by train.
7	United States	San Diego	13 March	Sunak travelled to San Diego to meet with President Joe Biden and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to made an announcement on the next stage of the AUKUS pact.^[8]
8	Iceland	Reykjavík	16 May	Sunak attended the fourth Council of Europe summit.^[9]
9	Japan	Tokyo, Hiroshima	17–21 May	Sunak travelled to Japan to announce a new defence partnership and host a reception with business leaders in Tokyo.^[10] Following this, he held a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and attended the G7 summit in Hiroshima.^[11]
10	Moldova	Chișinău, Bulboaca	1 June	Sunak attended the second summit of the European Political Community.^[12] He became the first UK prime minister to visit Moldova.^[13]
11	United States	Arlington, Washington, D.C.	7–8 June	The trip was primarily focused on business. On the first day of the trip, Sunak laid a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery.^[14] He addressed a major gathering of US business executives. Sunak met with Kevin McCarthy, the speaker of the House of Representatives, as well as Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell, the Democratic and Republican leaders of the Senate. Additionally, he and US President Joe Biden gave a joint press conference. He also watched the Washington Nationals play the Arizona Diamondbacks in a baseball game.^[15]^[16]
12	Lithuania	Vilnius	11–12 July	Sunak attended the 2023 NATO summit.^[17]
13	India	New Delhi	8–10 September	Sunak attended the 2023 G20 summit.^[18] Sunak became both the first British Prime Minister of Indian descent and first Hindu British Prime Minister to visit India.^[19]
14	Spain	Granada	5 October	Sunak attended the 3rd EPC summit.^[20]
15	Sweden	Visby	12–13 October	Sunak visited Sweden to attend a Joint Expeditionary Force summit.^[21] Sweden and the UK signed a strategic partnership, while Sunak also pledged to deploy more than 20,000 British troops across northern Europe in 2024. Sunak stayed on destroyer HMS Diamond, the first time a UK Prime Minister had stayed overnight on a Royal Navy warship since 1968.^[22]
16	Israel	Jerusalem	19 October	Sunak met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, following the outbreak of the Israel–Hamas war.^[23]^[24]
	Saudi Arabia	Riyadh	19–20 October	Sunak met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to discuss regional security.^[25]^[26] Sunak also met the Amir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the following morning. Sunak thanked Qatar for its involvement in securing the release of hostages taken by Hamas, including British nationals.^[27]
	Egypt	Cairo	20 October	Sunak visited Egypt as part of a two-day visit to Middle Eastern capitals.^[28] He met with the President of Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and the President of the Palestinian National Authority Mahmoud Abbas.^[29]^[30]
17	United Arab Emirates	Dubai	1 December	Sunak attended COP28, where he committed the UK to invest £1.6 billion on climate projects.^[31] During the 11 hour trip he secured several deals, such as with energy firms RWE and Masdar to invest £11 billion into the Dogger Bank wind farm.^[32]
18	Italy	Rome	16 December	Sunak attended Prime Minister Meloni's Brothers of Italy festival.^[33]^[34] The two leaders agreed to jointly finance migrant repatriations in Africa.^[35]

2024

#	Country	Location	Date	Details
19	Ukraine	Kyiv	12 January	Sunak visited Kyiv and met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to sign a security cooperation agreement with Ukraine.^[36] Sunak committed the UK to increase military funding to Ukraine to £2.5bn; he claimed that this agreement will be the first step in developing a “100-year partnership” between the two nations.^[37]
20	Poland	Warsaw	23 April	Sunak met with President Donald Tusk and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.^[38] He pledged to provide an additional £500m to Ukraine on top of the £2.5bn allocated for this financial year, the largest aid package for Ukraine from the United Kingdom.^[39]^[40] During the meeting with Stoltenberg, Sunak set out the UK's plan to increase defence spending to 2.5% and to ensure that the United Kingdom remained the "foremost military power in Europe". Sunak invited Stoltenberg to the upcoming European Political Community summit, hosted by the UK.^[41]
20	Germany	Berlin	23–24 April	Sunak met with Chancellor Olaf Scholz to discuss increasing defence and security cooperation.^[42] The two leaders announced that German businesses will invest £8 billion into the United Kingdom.^[43]
21	Austria	Vienna	20–21 May	Sunak met with Chancellor Karl Nehammer to discuss illegal migration.^[44] Nehammer praised the United Kingdom as a 'pioneer' in outsourcing migrants to places outside of Europe, referring to Sunak's Rwanda asylum plan.^[45]
22	France	Ver-sur-Mer	6 June	Sunak made a speech in Normandy to commemorate the 80th Anniversary of D-Day.^[46] Sunak left the event early in order to campaign for the upcoming general election on 4 July, skipping the opportunity to meet with other world leaders including President Biden, President Macron, and President Zelenskyy.^[47]

Future trips

The following international trips are scheduled to be made by Sunak prior to the next general election on 4 July 2024:

Country	Location	Date	Details
Italy	Fasano	13–15 June	Sunak is expected to attend the 50th G7 summit.^[48]

Multilateral meetings

Sunak is scheduled to attend the following summits during his prime ministership:

Group	Year
Group	2022	2023	2024
UNGA		20–23 September,^[a] New York City	September, New York City
G7		19–21 May, Hiroshima	13–15 June, Fasano
G20	15–16 November, Bali	8–10 September, New Delhi	18–19 November, Rio de Janeiro
NATO		11–12 July, Vilnius	9–11 July, Washington, D.C.
CHOGM		5–6 May, London	21–25 October, Apia
EPC		1 June, Bulboaca	18 July, Woodstock
EPC		5 October, Granada	7 November, TBD
COP	6–7 November Sharm el-Sheikh	1 December Dubai	November Baku
██ = Future event. ██ = Did not attend. ^a Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden attended in the Prime Minister's place.^[49]

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