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Visits to the U.S. by Foreign Heads of State and Government--1977

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Date	Visitor	Country	Description
February 14-16, 1977	President Jose Lopez Portillo	Mexico	State visit. In U.S. February 13-17; visited Williamsburg (Virginia) and Chicago.
February 21-22, 1977	Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau	Canada	Official visit.
March 3, 1977	President Omar Bongo	Gabon	Met with President Carter during a private visit.
March 6-9, 1977	Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin	Israel	Official working visit. Afterwards visited Miami.
March 9-12, 1977	Prime Minister James Callaghan	United Kingdom	Official visit.
March 14, 1977	Chancellor Bruno Kreisky	Austria	Private visit ("courtesy call").
March 20-23, 1977	Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda	Japan	Official visit.
April 3-6, 1977	President Anwar Sadat	Egypt	Official working visit.
April 21, 1977	Prime Minister Mario Alberto Lopes Soares	Portugal	Private visit.
April 24-27, 1977	King Hussein	Jordan	Official working visit.
April 28-29, 1977	Prime Minister Adolfo Suarez	Spain	Working visit
June 21-23, 1977	Prime Minister John Malcolm Fraser	Australia	Official visit. Private visit to New York City afterwards.
June 28-30, 1977	President Carlos Andres Perez	Venezuela	State visit. In U.S. June 27-July 2; visited Williamsburg (Virginia), New York City, Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), and Chicago.
July 13-15, 1977	Chancellor Helmut Schmidt	Germany, Federal Republic of	Official visit.
July 18-21, 1977	Prime Minister Menachem Begin	Israel	Official working visit.
July 25-28, 1977	President Giulio Giulio Andreotti	Italy	Official visit.
August 3-5, 1977	President Julius K. Nyerere	Tanzania	State visit. Afterwards visited Sioux City (Iowa), San Francisco, Los Angeles, Nashville (Tennessee), and Atlanta (Georgia). Departed U.S. August 10.
September 6-9, 1977	General Omar Torrijos Herrera	Panama	Attended signing of the Panama Canal Treaty.
September 6-9, 1977	President Francisco Morales Bermudez Cerruti	Peru	Attended signing of the Panama Canal Treaty.
September 6-9, 1977	President Augusto Pinochet	Chile	Attended signing of the Panama Canal Treaty.
September 6-9, 1977	President Alfredo Stroessner	Paraguay	Attended signing of the Panama Canal Treaty.
September 6-9, 1977	President Carlos Andres Perez	Venezuela	Attended signing of the Panama Canal Treaty.
September 6-9, 1977	General Kjell Laugerud Garcia	Guatemala	Attended signing of the Panama Canal Treaty.
September 6-9, 1977	Brigadier General Juan Melgar Castro	Honduras	Attended signing of the Panama Canal Treaty.
September 6-9, 1977	President Carlos Humberto Romero Mena	El Salvador	Attended signing of the Panama Canal Treaty
September 6-9, 1977	President Joaquin Videla Balaguer	Dominican Republic	Attended signing of the Panama Canal Treaty.
September 6-9, 1977	President Hugo Banzer Suarez	Bolivia	Attended signing of the Panama Canal Treaty.
September 6-9, 1977	President Alfredo Poveda Burbano	Ecuador	Attended signing of the Panama Canal Treaty.
September 6-9, 1977	Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau	Canada	Attended signing of the Panama Canal Treaty.
September 6-9, 1977	President Daniel Oduber Quiros	Costa Rica	Attended signing of the Panama Canal Treaty.
September 6-9, 1977	Prime Minister Lynden O. Pindling	Bahamas	Attended signing of the Panama Canal Treaty.
September 6-9, 1977	Prime Minister Eric M. Gairy	Grenada	Attended signing of the Panama Canal Treaty.
September 6-9, 1977	President Aparacio Mendez Manfredini	Uruguay	Attended signing of the Panama Canal Treaty.
September 6-9, 1977	President Jorge Rafael Videla	Argentina	Attended signing of the Panama Canal Treaty.
September 14-17, 1977	Prime Minister Raymond O. J. Barre	France	Official visit
September 23- October 5, 1977	Prime Minister Hussein bin Onn	Malaysia	Official visit.
September 27, 1977	President Hassan Gouled Aptidon	Djibouti	Private visit.
October 2-5, 1977	Prime Minister Gaston Thorn	Luxembourg	Met with President Carter October 4 in New York City While attending UN General Assembly session.
October 4, 1977	President Samora Machel	Mozambique	Met with President Carter in New York City while attending UN General Assembly session.
October 4-12, 1977	Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew	Singapore	Official visit.
October 5, 1977	President Spyros Kyprianou	Cyprus	Met with President Carter in New York City while attending UN General Assembly session.
October 10-13, 1977	Lieutenant General Olusegun Obasanjo	Nigeria	State Visit. Afterwards visited New York City. Departed U.S. September 15.
October 13-14, 1977	General Omar Torrijos Herrera	Panama	Discussed ratification of the Panama Canal Treaty.
October 17, 1977	President Omar Bongo	Gabon	Met with President Carter during a private visit.
October 18-22, 1977	Prime Minister Leo C. Tindemans	Belgium	Official visit. Private visit to Houston afterwards.
November 8-11, 1977	Prime Minister Robert D. Muldoon	New Zealand	Official visit. Private visit afterwards to LaGrange (Georgia).
November 15-16, 1977	Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi	Iran	State visit. In U.S. November 14; visited Williamsburg (Virginia).
December 3, 1977	Prime Minister Ahmad Osman	Morocco	Private visit. Delivered a message to President Carter Postponing a state visit by King Hassan II.
December 16, 1977	Prime Minister Michael Manley	Jamaica	Private visit.
December 16-17, 1977	Prime Minister Menachem Begin	Israel	Private visit. In U.S. December 14-19; visited New York City.

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