Diplomatic Encounters

Images capturing formal diplomatic meetings and ceremonies involving high-ranking officials, featuring suits, international flags, and settings indicative of government and international relations.

Luxembourgian Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn listens as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry addresses the media on July 16, 2016, after the Secretary arrived at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, for a bilateral meeting.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry guides Pope Francis toward a receiving line before the Pontiff boarded his chartered American Airlines Boeing 777 at Andrews Air Force Base in Camp Springs, Maryland, for a flight to New York, N.Y., on September 24, 2015.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry embraces Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni on December 2, 2016, at the Parco dei Principe Hotel in Rome, Italy, before the Secretary addresses an Italian-hosted multinational meeting focused on Mediterranean issues.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry chats with Deputy Special Envoy for Middle East Peace Frank Lowenstein as the two prepared to fly from Amman, Jordan, to Jerusalem on June 28, 2013.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry presents Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi with an autographed copy of the John Adams biography by historian David McCullough after a tour of the Adams National Historical Site in Quincy, Massachusetts, following a series of bilateral meetings in the Secretary's hometown of Boston on October 18, 2014.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper welcomes U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to his office on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada, on October 28, 2014, as the Secretary visited to pay condolences following last week's attacks and for a series of bilateral meetings.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry chats with U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew after the two completed a tour of the Badaling section of the Great Wall of China after arriving in Beijing on July 8, 2014, for a two-day Strategic and Economic Dialogue with their Chinese counterparts.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry greets Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergey I. Kislyak at the Conference on Global Leadership in the Arctic: Cooperation, Innovation, Engagement and Resilience (GLACIER) in Anchorage, Alaska, on August 31, 2015.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry poses with President Park Geun-hye of the Republic of Korea before a bilateral meeting on the margins of the East Asia Summit in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei, on October 10, 2013.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sits one-on-one with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on December 3, 2015, before a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the 22nd OSCE Ministerial Council meeting in Belgrade, Serbia.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry addresses reporters on November 24, 2015, following his meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the Muqata'a Presidential Compound in Ramallah, West Bank.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry gets a microphone before being interviewed by Sky Arabia host Muhammed Le on January 17, 2017, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry visits an artisanal complex during his visit to the 22nd UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP22) in Marrakech, Morocco, on November 16, 2016.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry chats with Jessica Watson, an Australian who was the youngest person to sail solo around the world, as they visited a replica of the famed exploring vessel HMB Endeavour during an ocean conservation event in Sydney, Australia, on August 11, 2014.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Sir Elton John to discuss PEPFAR and the work of the Elton John AIDS Foundation at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on October 24, 2014.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry embraces Massachusetts-based artist James Taylor after he finished singing "You've Got a Friend" at an event in Paris City Hall on January 16, 2015, to honor the victims of last week's shootings in the French capital.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sits with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu at the U.S. Ambassador's Residence in Paris, France, on July 26, 2014, at the outset of a round of meetings focused on regional and international efforts to bring a cease-fire to fighting between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry poses for a photograph with an entrepreneur at a trade fair in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, October 31, 2015.

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Holding a model helicopter, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry thanks French nurses and a helicopter flight crew on May 2, 2016, as he visited the U.S. Mission in Geneva, Switzerland, and thanked the first responders who treated him after he broke his leg in a biking accident in nearby France on May 31, 2015.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry chats with a Syrian refugee at the Australia House in Berlin, Germany.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry thanks U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker for her introduction before addressing the audience at the SelectUSA Investment Summit in Washington, D.C., on June 21, 2016.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sits with Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla at the Estadio Latinoamericano in Havana, Cuba, as he and members of a U.S. delegation led by President Obama attend an exhibition game on March 22, 2016, between the Cuban National Baseball Team and the Tampa Bay Rays.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry poses with U.S. Ambassador to France Jane Hartley and French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault on a balcony at the Quai d'Orsay - the French Foreign Ministry - in Paris, France, after they surveyed record-high water levels in the Seine River from rainfall before a bilateral meeting on June 4, 2016.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry walks with CNN Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour on January 16, 2017, at the CNN London Bureau in London, U.K., before an interview as he visited the British capital for meetings with the Archbishop of Canterbury and British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson during the Secretary's final trip abroad as a Cabinet officer.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry looks at an iPad showing his flight route as he and staffers in a Swiss Air Force helicopter in the distance fly from the World Economic Summit in Davos, Switzerland, to Zurich, Switzerland, on January 24, 2015.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry poses for a "selfie" with Gary Locke, former U.S. Ambassador to China, Commerce Secretary, and Governor of Washington, and his wife, Mona, after delivering a speech about U.S. and Pacific regional trade policy on May 19, 2015, at the Boeing Co.'s 737 assembly plant in Renton, Washington.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry conducts an interview with WBUR-FM host Meghna Chakrabarti before delivering a speech focused on Obama administration climate change policy on January 9, 2016, during an appearance at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom Suzan Johnson Cook smile for a photo before releasing the 2012 International Religious Freedom Report at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on May 20, 2013.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry takes a question from Belgian TV on his way to Egmont Palace in Brussels, Belgium, on April 24, 2013.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken has a conversation with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during a memorial service reception in honor of former Secretary of State George P. Shultz, in Stanford, California, on October 7, 2021.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry delivers remarks at the annual Diplomacy at Home for the Holidays Reception, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on December 13, 2016.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry poses for a photo with National Geographic Kids reporter Mallory Moore after an interview focused on the "Our Ocean" conference held at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on June 17, 2014.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with the staff and families of the U.S. Mission to Turkey in Istanbul, Turkey, April 7, 2013.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry tours the �Assyria to Iberia at the Dawn of the Classical Age� Exhibit after delivering remarks on the �Threats to Cultural Heritage in Iraq and Syria," at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on September 22, 2014.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, NBC News "Today" show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, and the Secretary's Labrador Retriever Ben walk through the halls of the State Department during a break between interview segments on June 18, 2014.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks to a group of Muslim women who have created alternative head coverings for women of their faith as he tours Google Campus Madrid � a gathering spot for young entrepreneurs to share ideas and launch start-up businesses �in Madrid, Spain, on October 19, 2015.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry looks out over the landing zone on January 18, 2017, before taking a helicopter flight from Davos, Switzerland, to Basel, Switzerland, after attending the World Economic Forum in Davos on the last stop of the last trip of his tenure as a Cabinet officer.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry laughs after getting a hug from Ryousei, an 18-month-old he met while touring the Zojoji Shrine, in Tokyo, Japan, on April 14, 2013.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry chats with French Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy S�gol�ne Royal before the Plenary Session of the COP21 climate change conference on December 12, 2015, at LeBourget Airport in Paris, France.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry poses for a photo with Ambassador Martin Indyk, Brookings' vice president and director of the Foreign Policy Program, and Saban Forum Chairman Haim Saban at the Brookings Institution's 2014 Saban Forum in Washington, D.C., on December 7, 2014.

President Joe Biden participates in a Q&A townhall on Monday, May 17, 2021, in the Red Room of the White House.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, flanked physical therapist Karen Waak, addresses reporters after being discharged from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, following surgery and treatment for a broken leg he suffered during a biking accident in France.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry chats with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on the front lawn of NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, after they joined their colleagues in signing an Accession Protocol to continue Montenegro's admission to the North American Treaty Organization amid the biannual Foreign Ministerial Meetings on May 19, 2016.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry departs the U.S. Embassy in Kabul in a U.S. military Blackhawk helicopter on March 26, 2013.

Annalena Baerbock (Buendnis 90 Die Gruenen), Bundesaussenministerin, aufgenommen im Rahmen ihrer Reise nach Texas, USA. Hier bei einem Treffen mit dem Aussenminister der USA, Antony Blinken

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry chats with Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin and a leader of Google's Self-Driving Car Project while sitting inside one of Google's self-driving cars at the 2016 Global Entrepreneurship's Innovation Marketplace on the campus of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, on June 23, 2016.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Kerry and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier speak on the terrace of the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on February 27, 2014.

Dr. Marcia Balisciano, Director, presents U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry with a book after he received the Benjamin Franklin Medal for Leadership at the Benjamin Franklin House in London, U.K., on October 31, 2016.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Meets With EU High Representative Catherine Ashton at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on September 9, 2014.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry shakes hands with the U.S. Representative to the Vienna Office of the United Nations and the International Atomic Energy Agency Ambassador Laura Holgate on July 22, 2016, after arriving at Vienna International Airport in Vienna, Austria, to attend a meeting aimed at amending the Montreal Protocol climate change agreement.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry chats with Shin Dong-hyuk, a survivor of North Korean human rights abuses, at an event highlighting human rights abuses in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in New York City on September 23, 2014. The Secretary is participating in events in conjunction with the 69th Session of the United Nations General Assembly.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry addresses a group of U.S. Pavilion benefactors at the Milan Expo in Milan, Italy, on October 17, 2015.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks to a crowd of reporters as he concludes his visit to the Za'atri camp for Syrian refugees in Jordan on July 18, 2013.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry walks with NASA's Dr. Piers J Sellers at the screening of "Before the Flood� at the UN Headquarters in New York City on October 20, 2016.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry gives a thumbs up after drawing a pint of bitter at the historic King Arms pub in Oxford, U.K., on May 11, 2016, after the Secretary earlier addressed the Oxford Union membership and met with U.S. Rhodes and Marshall scholars attending Oxford University.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry greets family members and friends of Embassy London staff members after addressing them during a visit to the United Kingdom on June 13, 2014.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry greets Afghan President Hamid Karzai before a trilateral meeting with Pakistani Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Kayani in Brussels, Belgium on April 24, 2013.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry participates in a traditional namaste welcoming ceremony upon his arrival to New Delhi, India on June 23, 2013.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Norwegian Foreign Minister Borge Brende pose for a selfie with a delegate as they tour displays on September 15, 2016, during the Our Ocean Conference at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry poses for a photo with Uniformed Division officers at the Toys for Tots ceremonial presentation to the Marine Corps Reserve, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on December 9, 2014.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry waves goodbye before boarding his airplane in Hamburg, Germany, for the return flight to Washington, D.C., on April 14, 2015, after attending a G7 Ministerial Meeting in Lubeck, Germany.

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, East German escapee Regina Webert-Lehmann, and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry stand beside a Trabant automobile like she used in her escape after examining one of the few remnants of the Berlin Wall as they took a tour to mark the 25th anniversary of its fall, and before the Secretary held a bilateral meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin, Germany, on October 22, 2014.

Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman meets with Israeli National Security Advisor Dr. Eyal Hulata at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on August 3, 2021.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry poses for a photo with Olympic women's tennis player Sloane Stephens at Olympic Park in Rio de Janiero, Brazil, on August 6, 2016, as he and his fellow members of the U.S. Presidential Delegation attend the Summer Olympics.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry looks over a cake - adorned with a plane flying around the globe - and homemade Oreo-flavored cupcakes - baked for him by a military wife - after they were presented to him by his staff to mark his 71st birthday on December 11, 2014, while he made the 50th overseas trip of his tenure to Lima, Peru, to speak about climate change at the 20th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and to meet with Peruvian President Ollanta Humala.

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