Diplomatic Meetings

Images of formal diplomatic meetings featuring individuals in negotiation settings, adorned with flags and elegant furnishings.

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 Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu - his former counterpart as Foreign Minister - on the sidelines of a NATO Ministerial Meeting in Antalya, Turkey, on May 13, 2015.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sits with Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemispheric Affairs Roberta Jacobson and U.S. Ambassador to Canada Bruce Heyman on January 29, 2016, at the Hotel Chateau Laurier in Secretary Kerry, With Assistant Secretary Jacobson and U.S. Ambassador Heyman, Sit Before His First Trilateral Session With Canadian Foreign Minister St�phane Dion and Mexican Foreign Secretary Claudia Ruiz Massieu in Qu�bec City, Canada, before his first trilateral session with with Canadian Foreign Minister Stephane Dion and Mexican Foreign Minister Claudia Ruiz Massieu at the North American Ministerial Meeting with Canadian and Mexican officials.

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and State Department Spokesperson John Kirby and Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Daniel Russel brief U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on June 7, 2016, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, before he delivered a press statement amid a two-day Strategic and Economic Dialogue between U.S. and Chinese officials.

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 meets with Indian National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on December 20, 2016.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton participates in a lunch with women Heads of State and Foreign Minsters at the Waldorf Astoria hotel during the 64th Session of the UN General Assembly in New York City, New York September 24, 2009.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson meets with South Korean Acting President Hwang Kyo-ahn in Seoul, South Korea, on March 17, 2017.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sits with Egyptian President Fattah al-Sisi at the Presidential Palace in Cairo, Egypt, on May 18, 2016, before a bilateral meeting also attended by U.S. Ambassdor to Egypt Stephen Beecroft, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, and other officials from both governments.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry participates in a meeting with EU High Representative Federica Mogherini, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, and Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif, at the United Nations Headquarters on the sidelines of the 70th Regular Session of the UN General Assembly in New York, New York, on September 28, 2015.

French President Francois Hollande addresses his guests on January 15, 2017, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Conference Center in Paris, France, at the outset of a French-hosted conference on Middle East peace attended by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Costa Rican President Carlos Alvarado in San Jose, Costa Rica on June 1, 2021.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu deliver remarks at a joint press availability in Istanbul, Turkey, April 7, 2013.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, U.S. Ambassador to Argentina Noah Mamet, and Argentina Foreign Minister Susan Malcorra sit with Argentina President Mauricio Macri in the Casa Rosada in Buenos Aires, Argentina, before a bilateral meeting on August 4, 2016.

Office of the Secretary - Secretary Elaine Chao with President of Uruguay Jorge Batlle Ibanez

Reportage: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meets with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan on March 23, 2020.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sits with some of his counterparts from Germany, China, the European Union, France, the United Kingdom, and Russia on March 29, 2015, in Lausanne, Switzerland, before a coordinating meeting among the P5+1 partner nations about negotiations over the future of Iran's nuclear program.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry poses for a family photo with fellow G7 Foreign Ministers before their meeting on the sidelines of the 70th Regular Session of the UN General Assembly in New York, New York, on September 29, 2015.

Madrid, 11/19/2007. Meeting at the Moncloa Palace between the Prime Minister Rodríguez Zapatero and the former US President, Bill Clinton. Photo: Jaime García. ARCHDC.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu in Washington, D.C., on March 30, 2016.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, U.S. Ambassador to Korea Kathleen Stephens, and others listen to remarks by Republic of Korea Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan at his residence in Seoul, South Korea, on April 16, 2011.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry poses with Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, and Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida before the Trilateral Security Dialogue in Bali, Indonesia, on October 4, 2013.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi, Baghdad, Iraq, May 7, 2019.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry addresses Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov on November 3, 2015, at the Oguzkhan Presidential Palace in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, at the outset of a bilateral meeting with the President and Foreign Minister Rasit Meredov.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Opposition Leader Rahul Gandhi at the Roosevelt House on August 31, 2016 in New Delhi, India.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry shares a laugh with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the two settle in for a meeting in the Minister's private office in Jerusalem on Dec. 5, 2013.

Annalena Baerbock (Alliance 90/The Greens), Federal Foreign Minister, is travelling to Israel, the Palestinian Territories, the Arab Republic of Egypt, the Republic of Lebanon, the Republic of the Philippines and Malaysia from 7 January to 14 January 2024

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry attends the Transatlantic Dinner in New York City on September 26, 2013.

Secretary Michael R. Pompeo met with Republic of Korea President Moon Jae-in at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on April 11, 2019.

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

Event honoring the Washington National Opera in the Benjamin Franklin Room, with appearances by Secretary Condoleezza Rice and other Department officials

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with Portuguese Foreign Minister Augusto Santos Silva in Lisbon, Portugal, on December 5, 2019.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo participates in a media interview with NHK General TV Journalist Yoshio Arim in Tokyo, Japan on October 6, 2020.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at the opening of the U.S. Pakistan Strategic Dialogue meeting at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., March 24, 2010.

President Barack Obama talks with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan following their meeting with President Park Geun-hye of the Republic of Korea at the U.S. Ambassador's residence in The Hague, the Netherlands, March 25, 2014.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, with Ambassador Nikki Haley, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, meets with Kazakhstani Foreign Minister Kairat Abdrakhmanovin in New York City on April 28, 2017.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with Brazilian Foreign Minister Ernesto Araujo, in Brasilia, Brazil, January 2, 2019.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry addresses a group of guests after he arrived at St. Antony's College in Oxford, U.K., on May 11, 2016, to attend a luncheon, deliver an address at the Oxford Union, and meet with Rhodes and Marshall scholars at a local pub.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo and U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis address the press with Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland and Canadian Minister of Defense Harjit Sajjan during the U.S. � Canada 2+2 Ministerial at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on December 14, 2018.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry addresses reporters during a news conference with several counterparts after French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault convened a multinational meeting focused on Syria at the Quai d'Orsay - the French Foreign Ministry - in Paris, France, on December 10, 2016.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with Japanese National Security Secretariat Secretary General Shigeru Kitamura, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on September 25, 2020.

U.S. Secretary Michael R. Pompeo addresses the media and takes questions following the UN Security Council meeting on Iran. at the United Nations, in New York City on December 12, 2018.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Aspen Institute President Walter Isaacson discuss global affairs and answer students' questions at the University of Chicago's Institute of Politics in Chicago, Illinois, during a visit to the city on October 26, 2016, which was also to include a speech before the Council on Global Affairs.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, former Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah in Kabul, Afghanistan on June 25, 2019.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo attends the Libya Summit in Berlin, Germany, on January 19, 2020.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China on June 14, 2018.

Deputy Secretary of State Antony "Tony" Blinken, with U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy, meets with Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs Fumio Kishida in Tokyo, Japan, on April 18, 2016.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo and Vice President Mike Pence host a State Luncheon in honor of Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Mrs. Morrison, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on September 20, 2019.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson participates in the_ United Nations Security Council _Session on Nuclear Non-Proliferation at the United Nations in New York City on September 21, 2017.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo participates in a meeting with U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Nikki Haley and United Nations Secretary-General Ant�nio Guterres in New York, New York on July 20, 2018.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Canadian Foreign Minister Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland at West Block at Parliament Hill Ottawa, Canada on August 22, 2019.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton meets with Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi in New York, New York on September 24, 2012.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (second from left) poses for a photo with the Quartet, including Quartet Representative Tony Blair (left), UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon (center), Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (fourth from left), and EU High Representative Catherine Ashton in the Secretary General's Conference Room at the United Nations in New York, New York, on September 21, 2010.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson poses for a family photo with the Delegation at the Ministerial Meeting of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS at Bayan Palace in Kuwait City, Kuwait, February 13, 2018.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo participates in a joint press availability with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Sochi, Russia on May 14, 2019.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sits with Afghan presidential candidates Abdullah Abdullah, left, and Ashraf Ghani, right, at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan on July 12, 2014, after he helped broker an agreement on a technical and political plan to resolve the disputed outcome of the election between them.

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William J. Burns, with U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy, talks to Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera in Tokyo, Japan, on January 24, 2014.

Secretary of State Micheal R. Pompeo meets with Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili, in Tbilisi, Georgia, on November 18, 2020.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary Clinton delivers remarks at a global Food Security event at the United Nations in New York City, New York September 26, 2009.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry poses for a photo with the recipients of the second U.S. Department of State-Medal of Arts -- Xu Bing, Mark Bradford, Sam Gilliam, Maya Lin, Julie Mehretu, Pedro Reyes, and Kehinde Wiley -- before a ceremony at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on January 21, 2015.

Annalena Baerbock (Buendnis 90 Die Gruenen), German Foreign Minister, meets the President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron, at the Elysee Palace. Paris, 09.05.2023, Paris, France, Europe

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson meets with China's President Xi Jinping in Beijing, China, on March 19, 2017.

Annalena Baerbock (Buendnis 90 Die Gruenen), Bundesaussenministerin, trifft Mohammed Shtayyeh, Ministerpraesident der Palaestinensischen Behoerde. Ramallah, 11.11.2023

Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman participates in an Embassy Meet and Greet in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, at the U.S. Embassy in Tashkent, on October 4, 2021.

Deputy Secretary John Sullivan participates in the G-20 Foreign Ministers' Meeting family photo in Nagoya, Japan, on November 23, 2019.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo speaks at a United Nations Security Council Session on Venezuela, at the United Nations Security Council Chamber, in New York City, January 26, 2019.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo delivers Joint Statements with Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi, in Jakarta, Indonesia on October 29, 2020.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry poses for a photo with University of Chicago Institute of Politics students - who formerly worked domestically and abroad as State Department interns - and IOP Director David Axelrod on October 26, 2016, at the UChicago campus in Chicago, Illinois, during a visit to the city which was also to include a speech before the Council on Global Affairs.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry participates in a family photo at the Equal Futures Partnership event in New York City on September 22, 2014. The Secretary is participating in events in conjunction with the 69th Session of the United Nations General Assembly.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo participates in a press conference with Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani in Kabul, Afghanistan on July 9, 2018.

Secretary Michael R. Pompeo attends the UN Security Council meeting on Iran at the United Nations, in New York City on December 12, 2018.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Brunei's Foreign Minister Prince Mohamed Bolkiah participate in the inaugural launch of the Brunei-U.S. English Language Enrichment Project for ASEAN in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei. September 7, 2012.

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