List of international prime ministerial trips made by Tony Blair

This is the list of international prime ministerial trips made by Tony Blair, who has served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 until 27 June 2007.

#	Country	Location	Date	Details	Image
1	Netherlands	Noordwijk	23 May	Blair's first overseas trip as prime minister was to the Netherlands, where he attended his first European Council meeting.[1]
2	France	Paris	26–27 May	Blair attended a NATO–Russia summit, in which he signed the NATO–Russia Founding Act.[2]
3	Sweden	Malmö	6 June	Blair attended the European Socialist Congress.[3]
	Germany	Bonn	6–7 June	Blair held a bilateral meeting with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl.[4]
4	France	Paris	11 June	Blair held a bilateral meeting with French President Jacques Chirac.[5][6]
5	Netherlands	Amsterdam	15–18 June	Blair attended a European Council meeting, which focused on drafting the Treaty of Amsterdam.[7][8]
6	United States	Denver, New York City	20–22 June	Blair attended the first G8 summit, he travelled to the event on Concorde.[9] Following the G8 summit, Blair attended the United Nations Earth Summit at the United Nations Headquarters, including a meeting with US Vice President Al Gore.[10]
6	Hong Kong	Hong Kong Island	30 June–1 July	Blair attended the Hong Kong handover ceremony.[11] Blair arrived in the British Dependent Territory of Hong Kong, but the sovereignty of the territory was transferred to China during the trip.
	Hong Kong
7	Spain	Madrid	7–9 July	Blair attended the 1997 NATO summit.[12] Blair backed US President Bill Clinton’s approach that NATO expansion should be capped at 3 countries.[13]
8	Italy	San Gimignano	2–26 August	Blair went on holiday with his wife Cherie Blair and children, staying with Geoffrey Robinson in Tuscany.[14]
	France			Blair visited France for bilateral talks.[15]
9	Russia	Moscow	5–6 October	Blair met with Russian President Boris Yeltsin, he also signed an agreement on cooperating in the fight against organized crime with Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin.[16]

Starmer is scheduled to attend the following regular summits during his premiership:

Group	Year
	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
UNGA	September, New York City	22–24 September, New York City	September, New York City	September, New York City	22–24 September, New York City	September, New York City	September, New York City	September, New York City	September, New York City	September, New York City
G8	20–22 June, Denver	15–17 May, Birmingham	18–20 June, Cologne	21–23 July, Nago	19–22 July, Genoa	26–27 June, Kananaskis	1–3 June, Évian-les-Bains	8–10 June, Sea Island	6–8 July, Auchterarder	15–17 July, Saint Petersburg	6–8 June, Heiligendamm
NATO	8–9 July, Madrid	none	24–25 April, Washington, D.C.	none		21–22 November, Prague	none	28–29 June, Istanbul	22 February, Brussels	28–29 November, Riga	none
CHOGM	24–27 October, Edinburgh	none	12–14 November, Durban	none		2–5 March, Coolum Beach	2–5 March, Abuja	none	25–27 November, Valletta	none

• Foreign relations of the United Kingdom
• List of international trips made by prime ministers of the United Kingdom
• List of state visits made by Elizabeth II