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This is a list ofheads of state,heads of government, ministers and senior officials who have visited India.
| Name | Title | Country | Date | Visit Type | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ariel Sharon | Prime Minister | 9 September 2003 | First Israeli prime minister to visit India, agreements and memorandums of understanding on defence, information technology and agriculture | [1][2] | |
| Ismail Omar Guelleh | President | May 2003 | State Visit | ||
| Sellapan Ramanathan | President | Jan 2003 | [3] | ||
| John Howard | Prime Minister | Jul 2000 | [4] | ||
| Bill Clinton | President | Mar 2000 | [5] | ||
| Abdurrahman Wahid | President | 8 February 2000 | [6] | ||
| Goh Chok Tong | Prime Minister | 17 January 2000 | [7] | ||
| Surendra Prasad Chowdhury | Minister of State for Science & Technology of Nepal | 17 November 1999 | [7] | ||
| Arthit Qurairat | Minister of Science, Technology and Environment | 15 November 1999 | [7] | ||
| Mohammed Idris Ali | Defence Secretary | 12 October 1999 | [7] | ||
| Orlando Mercado | Defence Secretary (Minister) | 11 October 1999 | [7] | ||
| Humayun Rasheed Choudhury | Speaker of the Bangladesh Parliament | [7] | |||
| Seine Saphantong | Minister of Agriculture and Forestry | 23 May 1999 | [7] | ||
| Tofail Ahmed | Minister for Commerce and Industries | 19 May 1999 | [7] | ||
| Ahmed Abdullah | Minister of Health | 22 April 1999 | [7] | ||
| Samy Vellu | Minister for works | 19 April 1999 | [7] | ||
| Abdur Razzaq | Minister for Water Resources | Apr 1999 | [8] ––> | ||
| Queen Elizabeth II | Queen | 12–18 Oct 1997 | |||
| Fidel V. Ramos | President | 2–5 March 1997 | [9] | ||
| Ezer Weizman | President | 31 Dec 1996– | [10] | ||
| Dipendra of Nepal | prince | 1994 | |||
| Daniel arap Moi | President | 1993 | |||
| Girija Prasad Koirala | Prime Minister | Dec 1990 | New separate trade and transit treaties and other economic agreementsIndia–Nepal relations#1990s | ||
| Mir–Hossein Mousavi | Prime Minister | Dec 1985 | |||
| Queen Elizabeth II | Queen | 17–26 Nov 1983 | 7thCommonwealth Heads of Government Meeting | ||
| Luís Cabral | President | 1979 | |||
| Saddam Hussein | President | 1979 | |||
| William Tolbert | President | 1978 | |||
| Jimmy Carter | President | 1 January 1978 | [5] | ||
| Richard Nixon | President | 1 August 1969 | [5] | ||
| Levi Eshkol | Prime Minister | 21–30 Jan 1968 | |||
| Jomo Kenyatta | President | 21–28 Jan 1965 | |||
| Abdullah Al–Salim Al–Sabah | Emir | 1963 | |||
| Muhammad Najib ar–Ruba'i | President | 1962 | |||
| William Tubman | President | 1961 | |||
| Queen Elizabeth II | Queen | 21 Jan – 1 Feb, 16–26 Feb, 1–2 Mar 1961 | |||
| Dwight Eisenhower | President | 10 December 1959 | [11] | ||
| Emperor Haile Selassie | Emperor | 11—18 August 1956 – | [12] [13] | ||
| King Saud | King | 13–18 August 1955 26 November 1955 | First visit by head of state of any of the two countries to the other | [14][15] |
| Name | Title | Country | Date | Visit Type | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mohamed Nasheed | President | 21 October 2009 | India–Maldives relations, Climate change issues | [16] | |
| Julia Gillard | Deputy PM | 1 September 2009 | To try and restore confidence in Australia's education sector | [17][18] | |
| James L. Jones | National Security Advisor | 25 June 2009 | The US government's strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Shared commitment to combat terrorism, Post–election situation in Iran, Energy and developing closer economic and trade links as well as defence ties | [19] | |
| David Miliband | Foreign Secretary | [20] | |||
| Gordon Brown | Prime Minister | 21 January 2008 | Reform of the United Nations Security Council | [21] | |
| Gloria Macapagal Arroyo | President | 3–7 October 2007 | [9] | ||
| Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva | President | 3 June 2007 | |||
| Vladimir Putin | President | 26 January 2007 | State guest during theRepublic Day Parade | ||
| Gordon Brown | Chancellor of the Exchequer | [22] | |||
| Traian Basescu | President | 22 October 2006 | |||
| George W Bush | President | 1 March 2006 | Indo–US civilian nuclear agreement | [23][24] | |
| Jacques Chirac | President | 19 February 2006 | Civilian nuclear co–operation and defence co–operation | [25] | |
| Tony Blair | Prime Minister | 6 September 2005 | [26][27] | ||
| Pervez Musharraf | President | 16 April 2005 | [28] |
| Name | Title | Country | Date | Visit Type/Purpose | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dmitry Medvedev | President | 21 December 2010 | Supported India's bid for UNSC membership | [29] | |
| Wen Jiabao | Premier | 15 December 2010 | Economic Issues, | ||
| Nicolas Sarkozy | President | 4 December 2010 | Supported India's bid for UNSC membership, Civilian Nuclear Deal | [30] | |
| Barack Obama | President | 6 November 2010 | Supported India's bid for UNSC membership as Permanent member | [31][32] | |
| David Cameron | Prime Minister | 26 July 2010 | The business and economic relationship, The G–20 future agenda, Supported for UNSC seat as Permanent member, The future of Britain's and India's role in Afghanistan | [33] | |
| Than Shwe | Commander–in–Chief | 25 July 2010 | Economic issues | [34][35] | |
| Mahinda Rajapaksa | President | 9 June 2010 | [36] | ||
| Hamid Karzai | President | 26 April 2010 | Cooperation between two countries, Joint fight against terrorism | [37] | |
| Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow | President | 24 May 2010 | First official visit of Berdimuhamedow to India, Development of trade and economic co–operation | [citation needed] | |
| Mohamed Waheed Hassan | Vice–President | 19 February 2010 | First official visit to India | ||
| Ram Baran Yadav | President | 15 February 2010 | [38][39] | ||
| Abdullah Gül | President | 7 February 2010 | Cooperation on economic and commercial relations | [40] |
| Name | Title | Country | Date | Visit Type/Purpose | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yoshihiko Noda | Prime Minister | 22 December 2011 | |||
| Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck | King | 20 October 2011 | |||
| John Key | Prime Minister | 28–30 June 2011 | State visit | ||
| Angela Merkel | Chancellor | 31 May 2011 | Received theJawaharlal Nehru Award for international understanding | ||
| Islam Karimov | President | 17 May 2011 | |||
| Yousaf Raza Gillani | Prime Minister | 29 March 2011 | Came toMohali to watch the2011 Cricket World Cup semi–final between India and Pakistan | ||
| Leonel Fernández Reyna | President | 30 January 2011 |
| Name | Title | Country | Date | Visit Type/ Purpose | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ram Baran Yadav | President | 24 – 29 December 2012 | Official Visit | [41] | |
| Viktor Yanukovych | President | 9–12 December 2012 | State Visit | [42] | |
| Mikhail Myasnikovich | Prime Minister | 13–14 November 2012 | Working Visit | [43] | |
| Hamid Karzai | President | 9–13 November 2012 | State Visit | [44] | |
| Stephen Harper | Prime Minister | 4–9 November 2012 | State Visit | [45] | |
| Juan Carlos I | King | 24–27 October 2012 | State Visit | [46] | |
| Julia Gillard | Prime Minister | 15–17 October 2012 | State Visit | [47] | |
| Pierre Nkurunziza | President | 17–29 September 2012 | |||
| Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani | Emir | April 2012 | |||
| Asif Ali Zardari | President | 8 April 2012 | Private visit | ||
| Dmitry Medvedev | President | 29 March 2012 | 2012 BRICS summit | ||
| Jacob Zuma | President | 29 March 2012 | |||
| Dilma Rousseff | President | 29 March 2012 | |||
| Hu Jintao | General Secretary President | 29 March 2012 | |||
| Michael Sata | President | 22 March 2012 |
| Name | Title | Country | Date | Visit Type/ Purpose | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hamid Karzai | President | 12 – 15 December 2013 | Official Visit | [48] | |
| Akihito | Emperor and Empress | 30 November – 5 December 2013 | State Visit | [49][50] | |
| Nguyen Phu Trong | General Secretary | 19 – 22 November 2013 | State Visit | [51] | |
| Jaber Al–Mubarak Al–Hamad Al–Sabah | Prime Minister | 7 – 10 November 2013 | State Visit | [52] | |
| Viktor Orban | Prime Minister | 16 – 19 October 2013 | State Visit | [53] | |
| Aga Khan IV | Imam of Nazari Islam | 17 – 28 September 2013 | Official Visit | [54] | |
| Ellen Johnson Sirleaf | President | 9 – 13 September 2013 | State Visit | [55] | |
| Tshering Tobgay | Prime Minister | 30 August – 4 September 2013 | Official Visit | [56] | |
| Ueli Maurer | President | August 2013 | [57] | ||
| Nouri Kamil Al–Maliki | Prime Minister | 22 – 25 August 2013 | State Visit | [58] | |
| Mohammad Karim Khalili | Vice President | 20 – 22 August 2013 | Official Visit | [59] | |
| Joseph R. Biden Jr | Vice President | 22 – 25 July 2013 | Official Visit | [60] | |
| Miroslav Lajcak | Deputy Prime Minister | 17 – 20 June 2013 | Official Visit | [61] | |
| Hamid Karzai | President | 20 – 22 May 2013 | Official Visit | [62] | |
| Li Keqiang | Premier | 19 – 22 May 2013 | State Visit | [63] | |
| Olafur Ragnar | President | 31 March – 6 April 2013 | Official Visit | [64] | |
| Mohamed Morsy | President | 18 – 20 March 2013 | State Visit | [65] | |
| David Cameron | Prime Minister | 19 – 21 February 2013 | Official Visit | [66] | |
| Francois Hollande | President | 14 – 15 February 2013 | State Visit | [67] | |
| Lyonchhen Jigmi Y. Thinley | Prime Minister | 7 – 9 February 2013 | Official Visit | [68] | |
| Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck | King | 23 – 29 January 2013 | State Visit | [69] | |
| Rashid Meredov | Deputy Prime Minister | 21 – 22 January 2013 | Official Visit | [70] | |
| Kailash Purryag | President | 3–9 January 2013 | State Visit | [71] |
| Name | Country | Designation | Date | Places visited | Type of visit | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jair Bolsonaro | President | 24–27 January | New Delhi,Agra | State visit, 71stRepublic Day parade | ||
| Mahinda Rajapaksa | Prime Minister | 7–11 February | New Delhi,Varanasi,Sarnath,Bodh Gaya,Tirupati | State visit | ||
| Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa | President | 13–16 February | New Delhi,Mumbai,Goa | State visit | First visit by a President of Portugal to India since 2007. | |
| Donald Trump | President | 24–25 February | Ahmedabad,Agra,New Delhi | State visit | ||
| Win Myint | President | 26–29 February | New Delhi,Bodh Gaya,Agra | State visit |
| Name | Country/Organisation | Designation | Date | Places visited | Type of visit | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mette Frederiksen | Prime Minister | 9–11 October 2021 | New Delhi | State visit | ||
| Vladimir Putin | President | 6 December 2021 | New Delhi | 21st India–Russia Annual Summit |
| Name | Country | Designation | Date(s) | Places Visited | Type/Purpose of visit | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fumio Kishida | Prime Minister | 19–20 March | New Delhi | 14th India–Japan Annual Summit | The previous India–Japan Annual Summit took place during PM Modi's visit to Japan in October 2018. | |
| Sher Bahadur Deuba | Prime Minister | 1–3 April | New Delhi,Varanasi | Official visit | ||
| Pravind Kumar Jugnauth | Prime Minister | 17–24 April | Mumbai, Jamnagar, Gandhinagar, Varanasi, New Delhi | |||
| Boris Johnson | Prime Minister | 21–22 April | Ahmedabad,New Delhi | State visit | ||
| Ursula von der Leyen | President of the European Commission | 24–25 April | New Delhi | Raisina Dialogue 2022 | ||
| Ibrahim Mohamed Solih | President | 1–4 August | New Delhi,Mumbai | Official visit | ||
| Sheikh Hasina | Prime Minister | 5–8 September | New Delhi,Jaipur | State visit |
| Name | Country/Organisation | Designation | Date | Places Visited | Type/Purpose of visit | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chandrikapersad Santokhi | President | 7–14 January | Jamnagar, Indore, Ahmedabad, New Delhi | 17thPravasi Bharatiya Divas Convention 2023 | The Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) Convention is held once every two years. | |||
| Irfan Ali | President | 8–14 January | Indore, Agra, New Delhi, Kanpur, Bengaluru, Mumbai | |||||
| Abdel Fattah el-Sisi | President | 24–27 January | New Delhi | State Visit, 74thRepublic Day Parade | ||||
| Olaf Sholz | Chancellor | 25–26 February | New Delhi,Bengaluru | State Visit | ||||
| Giorgia Meloni | Prime Minister | 2–3 March | New Delhi | State Visit,Raisina Dialogue 2023 | ||||
| Anthony Albanese | Prime Minister | 8–11 March | Ahmedabad,Mumbai,New Delhi | State Visit | ||||
| Fumio Kishida | Prime Minister | 20–21 March | New Delhi | Official Visit | ||||
| Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck | King | 3–5 April | New Delhi | Official Visit | ||||
| Norodom Sihamoni | King | 29–31 May | New Delhi | State Visit | ||||
| Pushpa Kamal Dahal | Prime Minister | 31 May–3 June | New Delhi,Indore | Official Visit | ||||
| Ranil Wickremesinghe | President | 20–21 July | New Delhi | Official Visit | ||||
| Joe Biden | President | 9–10 September | New Delhi | 2023 G20 New Delhi summit | There were five leaders who were invited but did not attend (3 G20 members and 2 invitees): The Chinese leaderXi Jinping was represented by PremierLi Qiang. The President of RussiaVladimir Putin was represented by Foreign MinisterSergei Lavrov. The President of MexicoAndrés Manuel López Obrador (who had a practice of skipping almost all foreign trips and never attended any G20 summits in his presidency) was represented by Minister of EconomyRaquel Buenrostro Sánchez. The Prime Minister of SpainPedro Sánchez (who tested positive for COVID two days before the summit) was represented by First Deputy PM and Minister of Economic affairsNadia Calviño and the Minister of Foreign AffairsJosé Manuel Albares. The Sultan of OmanHaitham bin Tariq was represented by his personal representative and Deputy PMAsa'ad bin Tariq Al Said. | |||
| Ursula von der Leyen | President of the European Commission | |||||||
| Charles Michel | President of the European Council | |||||||
| Olaf Scholz | Chancellor | |||||||
| Fumio Kishida | Prime Minister | |||||||
| Rishi Sunak | Prime Minister | |||||||
| Emmanuel Macron | President | |||||||
| Giorgia Meloni | Prime Minister | |||||||
| Justin Trudeau | Prime Minister | |||||||
| Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva | President | |||||||
| Yoon Suk-yeol | President | |||||||
| Anthony Albanese | Prime Minister | |||||||
| Joko Widodo | President | |||||||
| Alberto Fernández | President | |||||||
| Recep Tayyip Erdoğan | President | |||||||
| Cyril Ramaphosa | President | |||||||
| Li Qiang | Premier | |||||||
| Mohamed bin Zayed al Nayhan | President | |||||||
| Abdel Fattah el-Sisi | President | |||||||
| Lee Hsien Loong | Prime Minister | |||||||
| Bola Tinubu | President | |||||||
| Mark Rutte | Prime Minister | |||||||
| Sheikh Hasina | Prime Minister | |||||||
| Pravind Kumar Jugnauth | Prime Minister | |||||||
| Azali Assoumani | President, Chairperson of theAfrican Union | |||||||
| Mohammed bin Salman | Crown Prince,Prime Minister | 9–11 September | New Delhi | 2023 G20 New Delhi summit, State Visit |
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| Samia Suluhu Hassan | President | 8–10 October | New Delhi | State Visit | First visit by President Hassan to India and the first Presidential visit from Tanzania in more than 8 years. | |||
| William Ruto | President | 4–6 December | New Delhi | State Visit | First visit by President Ruto to India, and the first Presidential visit from Kenya in more than 6 years. | |||
| Haitham bin Tariq | Sultan | 16 December | New Delhi | State Visit |
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| Name | Country | Designation | Date(s) | Places visited | Type/Purpose of visit | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mohamed bin Zayed al Nayhan | President | 9–10 January | Gandhinagar | Attending the2024 Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit |
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| Petr Fiala | Prime Minister | 9–11 January | ||||||
| José Ramos-Horta | President | 8–10 January | ||||||
| Filipe Jacinto Nyusi | President | 9 January | ||||||
| Emmanuel Macron | President | 25–26 January | New Delhi | State visit, 75thRepublic Day parade | ||||
| Kyriakos Mitsotakis | Prime Minister | 21–22 February | New Delhi,Mumbai | State visit,Raisina Dialogue 2024 |
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| Tshering Tobgay | Prime Minister | 14–18 March | New Delhi,Mumbai | Official visit |
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| Ranil Wickremesinghe | President | 9 June | New Delhi | Swearing-in ceremony of Prime Minister Modi | Seychelles was represented by Vice-PresidentAhmed Afif. | |||
| Mohamed Muizzu | President | |||||||
| Sheikh Hasina | Prime Minister | |||||||
| Pravind Kumar Jugnauth | Prime Minister | |||||||
| Pushpa Kamal Dahal | Prime Minister | |||||||
| Tshering Tobgay | Prime Minister | |||||||
| Sheikh Hasina | Prime Minister | 21–22 June | New Delhi | State Visit |
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| Phạm Minh Chính | Prime Minister | 30 July–1 August | New Delhi | State Visit |
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| Anwar Ibrahim | Prime Minister | 19–21 August | New Delhi | State Visit | First visit by PM Ibrahim to India. | |||
| Andrew Holness | Prime Minister | 30 September–3 October | New Delhi | Official Visit |
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| Mohamed Muizzu | President | 6–10 October | New Delhi,Mumbai,Bengaluru | State Visit | First bilateral visit by President Muizzu to India. | |||
| Olaf Scholz | Chancellor | 24–26 October | New Delhi,Goa | Official visit |
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| Pedro Sánchez | Prime Minister | 27–29 October | New Delhi,Vadodara,Mumbai | Official Visit |
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| Tshering Tobgay | Prime Minister | 24–26 November | New Delhi | Working Visit | ||||
| Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck | King | 5–6 December | New Delhi | Official Visit |
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| Anura Kumara Disanayake | President | 15–17 December | New Delhi,Bodh Gaya | State Visit |
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| Name | Country | Designation | Date(s) | Places Visited | Type/Purpose of visit | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tharman Shanmugaratnam | President | 14–18 January | New Delhi,Bhubaneshwar | State Visit | ||||
| Prabowo Subianto | President | 23–26 January | New Delhi | State Visit, 76thRepublic Day parade |
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| Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani | Emir | 17–18 February | New Delhi | State Visit |
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| Tshering Tobgay | Prime Minister | 20–21 February | New Delhi | Official Visit |
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| Ursula von der Leyen | President of the European Commission | 27–28 February | New Delhi | Official Visit |
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| Christopher Luxon | Prime Minister | 16–20 March | New Delhi,Mumbai | Official Visit,Raisina Dialogue 2025 |
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| Gabriel Boric | President | 1–5 April | New Delhi,Agra,Mumbai,Bengaluru | State Visit |
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| Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck | King | 19 April | Assam | Informal Visit |
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| João Lourenço | President | 2–4 May | New Delhi | State Visit |
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| Santiago Peña | President | 2–4 June | New Delhi,Mumbai | State Visit |
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| Bongbong Marcos | President | 4–8 August | New Delhi,Bengaluru | State Visit |
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| Sitiveni Rabuka | Prime Minister | 24–26 August | New Delhi | Official Visit |
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| Lawrence Wong | Prime Minister | 3–4 September | New Delhi | Official Visit |
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| Tshering Tobgay | Prime Minister | 3–6 September | Gaya,Rajgir,Ayodhya,New Delhi | Visit |
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| Navin Ramgoolam | Prime Minister | 9–16 September | New Delhi,Ayodhya,Varanasi,Mumbai,Tirupati | State Visit | ||||
| Keir Starmer | Prime Minister | 8–9 October | Mumbai | Official visit |
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| Ukhnaagiin Khürelsükh | President | 13–16 October | New Delhi | State visit | ||||
| Vladimir Putin | President | 4–5 December | New Delhi | State visit, 23rd India–Russia Annual Summit |
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| Name | Country/ Institution | Designation | Date(s) | Places visited | Type/Purpose of visit | Notes | ||
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| Friedrich Merz | Chancellor | 12–13 January | Ahmedabad,Bengaluru | Official visit |
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| Mohamed bin Zayed al Nayhan | President | 19 January | New Delhi | Official visit | ||||
| Ursula von der Leyen | President of the European Commission | 24–27 January | New Delhi | State visit, 77thRepublic Day parade, 16th EU–India Summit |
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| António Costa | President of the European Council | |||||||
| Patrick Herminie | President | 5–10 February | Chennai,Mumbai,New Delhi,Agra | State visit |
| Name | Country | Designation | Date(s) | Places visited | Type/Purpose of visit | Notes |
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| Donald Trump | President | TBD | TBD | Quad Leaders' Summit | The Quad summit was expected to take place in India in the second half of 2025. This would be the 7th Quad summit overall, the 5th in-person, and the first to take place in India. However, due to prevailing diplomatic issues between India and the United States relating to trade and India's sourcing of Russian energy, the Quad summit was indefinitely postponed. The continued political instability in Japan (which peaked following theHouse of Councillors election in July 2025, PMShigeru Ishiba's subsequent resignation,LDP's search for the new leader and PM Takaichi dissolving theHouse of Representatives and calling for snap elections in February 2026) may also have contributed to the summit being postponed. | |
| Anthony Albanese | Prime Minister | |||||
| Sanae Takaichi | Prime Minister |
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