Diplomatic Meetings

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U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson meets with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and counterparts in Washington, D.C., on April 4, 2017.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambaev, in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, October 31, 2015.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen in Brussels, Belgium, on April 22, 2013.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, and their respective teams meet in Kabul on August 8, 2014, amid a series of conversations with presidential candidates Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah and other parties working on their election recount.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, flanked by Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Daniel Feldman and Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Christine Wermuth, sits with President Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan on February 7, 2015, before a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, joined by Baroness Catherine Ashton of the European Union, speaks with Foreign Minister Javad Zarif of Iran in Vienna, Austria, on November 21, 2014, before beginning their fourth three-way discussion about the future of Iran's nuclear program.

Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan meets with Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Faurie, on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly, in New York City on September 26, 2018.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson meets with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and counterparts in Washington, D.C., on April 4, 2017.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sits with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, right, and Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, left, on October 13, 2014, at the start of a bilateral meeting in the Presidential Palace in Cairo, Egypt.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Chief Executive of Afghanistan Abdullah Abdullah at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on March 24, 2015.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Arab League Secretary General El Araby in London, United Kingdom, on December 16, 2014.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sits with his fellow Foreign Ministers and other national leaders on June 14, 2016, after arriving at the Renaissance Santo Domingo Jaragua Hotel in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, for a huddle with like-minded nations before participating in the 46th Regular Session of the Organization of American States General Assembly.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on May 27, 2015.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on February 26, 2014.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry - flanked by Chief of Staff Jon Finer, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman, U.S. Energy Secretary Dr. Ernest Moniz, National Security Council Senior Director for Iran, Iraq, Syria and the Gulf States Robert Malley, and European Union Deputy Secretary General Helga Schmid - listens as Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif makes remarks after the Secretary expressed condolences on the death of the mother of Iranian President Dr. Hassan Rouhani and his brother, negotiator Hosein Fereydoun, before resuming negotiations about the future of Iran's nuclear program on March 19, 2015, in Lausanne, Switzerland.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with Qatari Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, in Doha, Qatar, January 13, 2019.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with United Kingdom Foreign Secretary Elizabeth Truss in New York City, New York, on September 20, 2021.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the United Nations, on the margins of the 73rd Session of the UN General Assembly, in New York City, on September 26, 2018.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha in Bangkok, Thailand, on August 2, 2019.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., Vice President Kamala D. Harris, National Security Advisor to the President Jake Sullivan, and National Security Advisor to the Vice President Nancy McEldowney at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on February 4, 2021.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sits with Kurdistan Regional Government Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani and their respective advisers on April 8, 2016, at the Chief of Mission Residence at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, following similar meetings with Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi and Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevl�t �avu_o_lu in Ankara, Turkey on October 17, 2018.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry holds a bilateral meeting with U.K. Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs William Hague at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on February 25, 2014.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton meets with Kazakhstani Foreign Minister Kanat Saudabayev at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York City, New York September 26, 2009.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian President Vladimir Putin, accompanied by their respective delegations, discuss Syria and Ukraine during their bilateral meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on March 24, 2016. Also pictured are Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Toria Nuland, U.S. Ambassador to Russia John Tefft, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with United Nations Special Envoy Martin Griffiths at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on March 14, 2019.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton meets with Foreign Minister of Turkey Ahmet Davutoglu in New York, New York on September 26, 2012.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry holds a bilateral meeting with French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius in New York City on September 25, 2013.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Anne Patterson meet with Moaz al-Khatib, former President of the Syrian Opposition Coalition, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on March 25, 2015.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton hosts a working dinner with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov, EU High Representative Ashton, and Quartet Representative Tony Blair at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on July 11, 2011.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic in Podgorica, Montenegro, on October 4, 2019.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela in Panama City, Panama on October 18, 2018.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sits with members of the Gulf Cooperation Council -- clockwise from bottom left, Saudi Deputy Foreign Minister Abdul Aziz, United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed, Kuwaitii Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah al-Khalid al-Hamad al-Sabah, Omani Foreign Minister Yousef bin Alawi bin Abdullah, Qatari Foreign Minister Khalid bin Mohammad al-Attiya and Bahraini Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed al-Khalifa -- on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, on February 6, 2015.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, flanked by U.S. Ambassador to Jordan Alice Wells, sits with Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh and Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secretary General Mohammad Bani Yassin before a bilateral meeting on February 21, 2016, at the Jordanian Foreign Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Amman, Jordan.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with Polish President Andrzej Duda, in Warsaw, Poland, on August 15, 2020.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo attends a P5 Ministerial Lunch hosted by the Government of China, at the Chinese Mission to the United Nations, in New York City, New York on September 26, 2019.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Arab League Secretary General Nabil al-Araby in New York City on September 23, 2014. The Secretary is holding meetings in conjunction with the 69th Session of the United Nations General Assembly.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, flanked by U.S. Ambassador to Russia John Tefft and U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman, sits across from Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, and Presidential aide Yurly Ushakov, at the outset of a bilateral meeting at the Bocherov Ruche - a government villa - in Sochi, Russia, on May 12, 2015.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry shakes hands with United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura on December 2, 2016, at the Parco dei Principe Hotel in Rome, Italy, before a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of an Italian-hosted multinational meeting focused on Mediterranean issues.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton holds a bilateral meeting with Peruvian Foreign Minister Roncagliolo, at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, New York, on September 22, 2011.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry chats with members of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Quartet - Tunisian Order of Lawyers President Mohamed Fadhel Mahfoudh, Tunisian Confederation of Industry, Trade, and Handicrafts President Wided Bouchamaoui, Tunisian Human Rights League President Abdessattar Ben Moussa, and Tunisian General Labour Union Secretary-General Houcine Abassi - after arriving in Tunis, Tunisia, on November 13, 2015, for a Strategic Dialogue with government leaders and a meeting with President Beji Caid Essebsi.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with the family of Kenneth Bae at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on January 28, 2014.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry shakes hands with Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra on December 9, 2015, in the Westin Hotel in Paris, France, before a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the COP21 climate change conference.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Special Envoy Angelina Jolie Pitt at the U.S. Department of State in Washington D.C. on June 20, 2016.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sits with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi at the Congress Center in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on March 13, 2015, before a bilateral meeting and their attendance at an Egyptian development conference.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks with Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh in Rome, Italy, on May 9, 2013.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with Slovenian President Borut Pahor in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on August 13, 2020.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi at the Blair House in Washington, DC on May 20, 2015.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on the sidelines of the 70th Regular Session of the UN General Assembly in New York, New York, on September 27, 2015.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko makes a statement to reporters before a bilateral meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on September 4, 2014, amid the NATO Summit in Newport, Wales, United Kingdom.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry - flanked by National Security Council Senior Director for Iran, Iraq, Syria and the Gulf States Robert Malley, U.S. Energy Secretary Dr. Ernest Moniz, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman, and European Union Deputy Secretary General Helga Schmid - sits across from Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, Dr. Ali Akbar Salehi, the Vice President of Iran for Atomic Energy and President of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, and other advisers on July 2, 2015, in Vienna, Austria, before resuming negotiations about the future of Iran's nuclear program.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson meets with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, in Manila, Philippines, on August 6, 2017.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry chats with Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh before President Obama met with Jordan's King Abdullah II amid the NATO Summit in Newport, Wales, United Kingdom on September 4, 2014.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry - flanked by National Security Council Senior Director for Iran, Iraq, Syria and the Gulf States Robert Malley, U.S. Energy Secretary Dr. Ernest Moniz, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman, and European Union Deputy Secretary General Helga Schmid - addresses reporters as he sits across from Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, Dr. Ali Akbar Salehi, the Vice President of Iran for Atomic Energy and President of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, and other advisers on July 3, 2015, in Vienna, Austria, amid negotiations about the future of Iran's nuclear program.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with Israeli Speaker of the Knesset Benjamin Gantz, in Israel on May 13, 2020.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton meets with Uzbekistan�s President Islam Karimov in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on December 2, 2010.

Deputy Secretary of State Antony "Tony" Blinken and U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy meet with Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga at the Kantei, the Prime Minister's Residence, in Tokyo, Japan, on October 5, 2015.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, on the margins of the 73rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly, in New York City on September 28, 2018.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton meets with Armenian Foreign Minister H.E. Edward Nalbandian at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York City, New York September 28, 2009.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson meets with Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland on August 7, 2017 at the Philippine International Convention Center in Manila.

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Madrid, 10/19/2015. Meeting at the Moncloa Palace of President Mariano Rajoy with the Secretary of State of the United States, John Kerry. Photo: Jaime García ARCHDC.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton hosts a working lunch for French President Francois Hollande at the Blair House in Washington, D.C. on May 18, 2012.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton meets with Greek President President Karolos Papoulias in Athens, Greece, on July 17, 2011.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry addresses reporters before a bilateral meeting with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on September 4, 2014, amid the NATO Summit in Newport, Wales, United Kingdom.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sits Turkish Foreign Minister Feridun Sinirlioglu at the National Golf Club in Antalya, Turkey, before a bilateral meting that followed a Foreign Ministerial lunch during the G20 Summit attended by President Obama and other Heads of State.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sits with President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil before a bilateral discussion in Brasilia, Brazil, on August 13, 2013.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with Polish Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz in Warsaw, Poland on February 12, 2019.

Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman meets with Moldovan Deputy Prime Minister Nicu Popescu on the margins of the 76th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 76) in New York, New York, on September 22, 2021.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi meet at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on September 21, 2015.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton meets with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi in New York, New York on September 27, 2012.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry hosts a meeting on Syria on the sidelines of the 70th Regular Session of the UN General Assembly in New York, New York, on September 28, 2015. Also pictured are Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh and French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius.

U.S. Under Secretary of State William J. Burns, U.S. Ambassador Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva discuss U.S.-Thailand relations at the Thai Government House in Bangkok, Thailand, on June 16, 2010.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on the margins of the 76th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 76) in New York, New York, on September 23, 2021.

Vice President Joe Biden, flanked by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Toria Nuland, sits with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on February 7, 2015, before a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany.

Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman participates in the State of the Administration series from the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on March 16, 2022.

U.S. Special Envoy George Mitchell with Israeli Minister of Defense Ehud Barak during their meeting in Tel Aviv, Israel July 26, 2009.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry -- flanked by Chief of Staff Jon Finer, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman, U.S. Energy Secretary Dr. Ernest Moniz, National Security Council Senior Director for Iran, Iraq, Syria and the Gulf States Robert Malley, and European Union Deputy Secretary General Helga Schmid -- sits across from Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, Dr. Ali Akbar Salehi, the Vice President of Iran for Atomic Energy and President of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, and other advisers on March 19, 2015, in Lausanne, Switzerland, before resuming negotiations about the future of Iran's nuclear program.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with Croatian Foreign Minister Gordan Grli_-Radman in Munich, Germany on February 14, 2020.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Indian Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid enjoy a look at the French Alps before the start of a one-on-one meeting during a break in the Geneva II conference in Montreux, Switzerland, on January 22, 2014.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson meets with Secretary of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Boris Johnson during the Meeting of the Ministers of the Global Coalition on the Defeat of ISIS at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on March 22, 2017.

King Abdullah II shows his son, Crown Prince Hussein, a photo given to them by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry at the start of a meeting at Al Hummar Palace in Amman, Jordan, on July 17, 2013.

President Barack Obama meets with Italian President Giorgio Napolitano at Quirinale Palace in Rome, Italy, March 27, 2014.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri in Beirut, Lebanon, on June 4, 2014.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and U.S. Ambassador to Spain and Andorra James Costos meet with Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Garcia-Margallo at the Viana Palace in Madrid, Spain, on October 18, 2015.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and President Ollanta Humala of Peru deliver a pair of statements to news reporters following a bilateral meeting in the Presidential Palace in Lima, Peru, on Dec. 11, 2014, and after the Secretary addressed the 20th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry attends the Trilateral Ministerial with the Republic of Korea and Japan in New York City, New York on September 18, 2016.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry introduces financier and philanthropist George Soros, who spoke with Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Doug Frantz about strengthening civil society, democracy, and the world economy at the U.S. Department of State's Open Forum in Washington, D.C., on May 13, 2014.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, in Hanoi, Vietnam on October 30, 2020.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and British Foreign Secretary William Hague hold a bilateral meeting at Winfield House, the ambassador's official residence, in London, United Kingdom, on November 24, 2013.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with Indonesian President Joko Widodo at the Presidential Palace, in Jakarta, Indonesia, on August 5, 2018.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sits with Rwandan President President Paul Kagame at the Presidential Office in Kigali, Rwanda, on October 14, 2016, as the Secretary paid a visit to the nation's capital to attend a conference focused on amending the Montreal ozone layer protection protocol.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with Saudi King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz at the Royal Court in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on October 16, 2018.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sits with President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan on July 12, 2014, amid a series of meetings about steps to resolve the country's disputed presidential election between candidates Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo participates in a media interview with Nikkei Journalist Hiroyuki Akita in Tokyo, Japan on October 6, 2020.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry poses for a photo with his counterparts from Canada, Kuwait, Japan, the Netherlands, Germany, and Iraq prior to the Pledging Conference in Support of Iraq at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on July 20, 2016.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo participates in a press conference with Colombian President Ivan Duque in Bogota, Colombia, on September 19, 2020.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with UAE Prince Mohammed bin Zayed_, at the Royal Court at al Shati Palace, Abu Dhabi, on June 24, 2019.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho, on the margins of the 73rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly, in New York City on September 26, 2018.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets Rabbi Cooper, Rabbi Hier, and Michele Alkin of Simon Wiesenthal Center in Israel, on October 18, 2019.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry hosts an Iftar for Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni and Palestinian Chief Negotiator Saeb Erekat at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on July 29, 2013.

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