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Formal International Gatherings

Images of world leaders engaging in formal meetings and ceremonies, set against a backdrop of grandeur, highlighting diplomacy and international relations.

US Secretary of State (Foreign Minister) Colin Powell meets Mexican President Vicente Fox Quesada at the Miguel Aleman residence at Los Pinos, the seat of the Mexican Presidency.
US Secretary of State (Foreign Minister) Colin Powell meets Mexican President Vicente Fox Quesada at the Miguel Aleman residence at Los Pinos, the seat of the Mexican Presidency.
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Abuja, Nigeria. 29th May 2023. Nigeria President/elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu was sworn into office. The ceremony took place amid tight security at the 5,000/capacity Eagle Square venue in the capital, Abuja.Madrid, 11/09/2024. Interview with the North Korean ambassador to Spain, Lim Soosuk. Photo: Ernesto Agudo. ARCHDC.TOM HIDDLESTON in THE NIGHT MANAGER (2016), directed by SUSANNE BIER.Madrid, 05/13/2022. Ambassador José María Liu, representative of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Spain. Photo: Matías Nieto. ARCHDC.Red Carpet Preparations for 62nd Annual Academy Awards, Los Angeles, CaliforniaUnited Nations, New York, USA, August 09 2017 - Grand Chief Wilton Littlechild, a Cree Chief from Canada, addresses a Press Conference on the tenth anniversary of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples today at the UN Headquarters in New York City. Photo: Luiz Rampelotto/EuropaNewswire | usage worldwideAnwar Ibrahim, Prime Minister of Malaysia recorded during a press conference at the Federal Chancellery in Berlin, 11 March 2024Annalena Baerbock (Buendnis 90 Die Gruenen), Bundesaussenministerin, trifft den Aussenminister der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan. Abu Dhabi, 10.11.2023A third-generation Thai Chinese, Chuan was born in Trang province. As the leader of the Democrat Party, Chuan was elected in 1992 after the abortive coup by General Suchinda Kraprayoon, thus becoming Thailand's first prime minister to come to power without either aristocratic or military backing. His first administration consisted of a five party coalition of the Democrat, New Aspiration, Palang Dhamma, Social Action and Social Unity Parties until he was defeated in the 1995 election, but assumed power in late 1997 following the fall of the Chavalit Yongchaiyudh administration, which was held responsible for the economic crisis that beset Thailand in 1997.Christian Lindner (FDP), Bundesminister der Finanzen, aufgenommen im Rahmen eines Besuchs des Deutschen Kontingents eFP auf dem NATO-Stuetzpunk in Rukla, 03.11.2023Chairman of Reliance Infocomm now Reliance Communication Anil Ambani with wife Tina Ambani NO MR Copyright: xManoejxPaateel/DinodiaxPhotoxPortrait of King Mohammed VI, Taroudan, Morocco, North Africa, AfricaJoko Widodo, the President of Indonesia, takes selfies during a visit to Manila, Philippines 11/01/2024U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry lays a wreath at the founder's house in Dhaka, Bangladesh, before a bilateral meeting on August 29, 2016.Ferdinand Marcos Jr, President of the Philippines, speaks to the media after a joint meeting with Olaf Scholz (not pictured), German Chancellor, in Berlin, 12 March 2024Chairman Mao (centre) with Zhou en Lai (to his left), and Lin Biao (Right)Deng Xiaoping was elected the chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) at the First Plenum of the Fifth National Committee of the CPPCC in March 1978.Lee Kwan Yew, the founder of Singapore.Abuja, Nigeria. 29th May 2023. Nigeria President/elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu was sworn into office. The ceremony took place amid tight security at the 5,000/capacity Eagle Square venue in the capital, Abuja.Madrid, 11/09/2024. Interview with the North Korean ambassador to Spain, Lim Soosuk. Photo: Ernesto Agudo. ARCHDC.United Nations, New York, USA, August 09 2017 - Grand Chief Wilton Littlechild, a Cree Chief from Canada, addresses a Press Conference on the tenth anniversary of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples today at the UN Headquarters in New York City. Photo: Luiz Rampelotto/EuropaNewswire | usage worldwideMadrid, 05/11/2019. Interview Olivo Rodríguez Huertas, ambassador of the Dominican Republic in Spain. Photo: Maya Balanya ARCHDC.Portrait of Mao ZedongSecretary of State Michael R. Pompeo delivers Joint Statements with Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi, in Jakarta, Indonesia on October 29, 2020.10/05/2014 Milan, the president of Forza Italia Silvio Berlusconi participates in the Festival of animal friends. In the photo the speech by Silvio BerlusconiKing Faisal of Saudi Arabia during visit with U.S. President Richard Nixon at White House, Washington, D.C., USA, Marion S. Trikosko, US News & World Report Magazine Collection, May 27, 1971Annalena Baerbock (Buendnis 90 Die Gruenen), Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs, recorded during a conversation with Francia Marquez, Vice-President of the Republic of Colombia, in Cali, 08.06.2023., Cali, Colombia, South AmericaMadrid, 05/23/2023. Interview with Taiwan's ambassador to Spain, José María Liu. Photo: Ernesto Agudo. Archdc.Muhammad Hosni El Sayed Mubarak ( born 4 May 1928) Egyptian military and political leader who served as the fourth President of Egypt from 1981 to 2011.Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) with Anwar Ibrahim, Prime Minister of Malaysia, at a press conference at the Federal Chancellery in Berlin, 11 March 2024Crown Prince Fahd, Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister. 6 March 1991Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf makes remarks during a joint press availability with U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power in the foyer of the Liberian Foreign Ministry in Monrovia on October 28, 2014.United Nations, New York, USA, August 09 2017 - Grand Chief Wilton Littlechild, a Cree Chief from Canada, addresses a Press Conference on the tenth anniversary of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples today at the UN Headquarters in New York City. Photo: Luiz Rampelotto/EuropaNewswire | usage worldwideMao Tse-Tung (Mao Zedong) 1893-1976, Chinese Communist leader. Mao addressing a meeting.BEN CRUMP in CIVIL: BEN CRUMP (2022), directed by NADIA HALLGREN.The Dalai Lama at the 2008 Seattle Seeds of Compassion event.Abuja, Nigeria. 29th May 2023. Nigeria President/elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu was sworn into office. The ceremony took place amid tight security at the 5,000/capacity Eagle Square venue in the capital, Abuja.03/10/2021 Milan, Silvio Berlusconi voting for the municipal elections in the school in Via Fratelli RuffiniMadrid, 02/12/2020. Interview with Borja Fanjul, president of the plenary session of the Madrid City Council. Photo: Ernesto Agudo. ARCHDC.Portrait Ban Ki-moon, former Secretary-General of the United Nations, United Nations Headquarters, UN Headquarters, Framed portrait of a former UN Secretary-General with UN symbol in the background, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA, North AmericaTourist Landmark of the Resistance, also known as Museum for Resistance Tourism, a war museum operated by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. Hassan Nasrallah statue.Ken Jeong Ken Jeong at the World premiere of Wonder Park held at the Regency Bruin Theatre in Westwood, USA on March 10, 2019. Copyright: xZoonar.com/Lumeimages.comx 21772684Muammar Qaddafi, then Libyan chief of state, attends the 12th African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Feb. 2, 2009. Qaddafi was elected chairman of the organisation.Nambaryn Enkbayar, President of Mongolia1st press conference 'Heavyweights the big heavyweight night', main fight: WBA World Heavyweight Championship Ruslan Chagaev (UZB) vs. Francesco Pianeta (GER) on 11 July 2015 in MagdeburgOmar Alieu Touray, President of the ECOWAS Commission, Abouja, 05.02.2024Portrait of Kim Il Sung, Pyongyang, North Korea, AsiaRached Ghannouchi, leader of the islamist party Ennahda, addressing a rally of Ennahda before an election Tunis. Tunisia.Madrid, 05/11/2019. Interview Olivo Rodríguez Huertas, ambassador of the Dominican Republic in Spain. Photo: Maya Balanya ARCHDC.Giulio Andreotti at the 15th National Congress of the Christian Democratic Party (Democrazia Cristiana). Rome (Italy), May 1982.Televised broadcast of the inauguration of President Nelson Mandela of South Africa, 1994. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (1918 - 2013), South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader; served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, joined by Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi, addresses attendees at an Ecopartnerships event on June 6, 2016, in a villa at the Diaoyutai Guest House complex in Beijing, China, during a two-day Strategic and Economic Dialogue between their respective countries.Barcelona, 02/06/2018. Interview with the Korean philosopher Byung Chul Han. Photo: Inés Baucells ARCHDC.Martin Luther King III India NO MR 18-February-2009 Copyright: xHemangixNakwe/DinodiaxPhotoxHu Jintao, is the former paramount leader of China between 2002 and 2012. He held the offices of General Secretary of the Communist Party, President of the People's Republic and Chairman of the Central Military Commission. He was a member of the 14th to 17th CPC Politburo Standing Committee, China's de facto top decision-making body. Hu has been involved in the Communist party bureaucracy for most of his adult life, notably as Party secretary for Guizhou province and the Tibet Autonomous Region, and then later First secretary of the Central Secretariat and Vice-President under former leader Jiang Zemin. Hu is the first leader of the Communist Party without any significant revolutionary credentials. As such, his rise to the leadership represented China's transition of leadership from establishment communists to younger, more pragmatic technocrats.The Interim President Hamid Karzai.Madrid, 01/13/2016. Interview with the Foreign Minister of Bolivia David Choquehuanca. Photo: Isabel Permuy ARCHDC.U Thant (1909 1974), a Burmese diplomat and the third Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1961 to 1971, the first non-European to hold the position.Ken Jeong at the World premiere of 'Wonder Park' held at the Regency Bruin Theatre in Westwood, USA on March 10, 2019The Dalai Lama in Paris-BercyFerdinand Marcos Jr, President of the Philippines, photographed during a joint meeting with Olaf Scholz (not pictured), Federal Chancellor, in Berlin, 12 March 2024Osama bin Laden born March 10, 1957. member of the prominent Saudi bin Laden family and the founder of the Islamic extremist organization al-Qaeda, best known for the September 11 attacks on the United States and numerous other mass-casualty attacks against civilian and military targets.Kevin Smith Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes hands and footprint ceremony held at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, USA on October 14, 2019. Copyright: xZoonar.com/Lumeimages.comx 21705916Park Geun-hye (born 2 February 1952) is a former South Korean politician who served as the 11th president of South Korea from 2013 until 2017, when she was impeached and a year later convicted on related corruption charges.Madrid, 09/22/2015. Interview with the president of Changyu, Zhou Hongjian. Photo: Ernesto Agudo ARCHDC.Aung San Suu Kyi photo displaying on a magazine cover, Yangon, MyanmarOffice of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid KarzaiLee Kuan Yew, GCMG, CH (1923-) also Lee Kwan-Yew) is a Singaporean statesman. He was the first Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore, from 1959 to 1990, and was one of the longest serving Prime Ministers in the world. As the co-founder and first secretary-general of the People's Action Party (PAP), he led the party to a landslide victory in 1959, oversaw the separation of Singapore from Malaysia in 1965 and its subsequent transformation from a relatively underdeveloped colonial outpost with no natural resources into a 'First World', Asian economic power.Hua Guofeng (1921 - 2008), Chinese politician who served as Chairman of the Communist Party of China and Premier of the People's Republic of China, 1976 - 1981Madrid, 09/22/2015. Interview with the president of Changyu, Zhou Hongjian. Photo: Ernesto Agudo ARCHDC.Madrid, 09/22/2015. Interview with the president of Changyu, Zhou Hongjian. Photo: Ernesto Agudo ARCHDC.Madrid, 08/10/2022. Interview with the ambassador of Taiwan, José Maria Liu. Photo: Ángel de Antonio. Archdc.Madrid, 11/14/2017. Interview with Nobel Prize winner Takaaki Kajita. Photo: Oscar del Pozo Archdc.Sen. Daniel K. Inouye of Hawaii speaks to the Remembrance Day audience at the USS ARIZONA Memorial Visitors Center. USS ARIZONA survivors are honored during the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor. Base: Pearl Harbor State: Hawaii(HI) Country: United States Of America (USA)Anwar Ibrahim, Prime Minister of Malaysia recorded during a press conference at the Federal Chancellery in Berlin, 11 March 2024Julius Kambarage Nyerere (1922 ñ 1999)Tanzanian politician and leader of Tanzania, and previously Tanganyika, from 1960 until his retirement in 1985.Phillipines President Rodrigo Roa Duterte shakes hands with former Senator Juan Ponce Enrile as they pose near the President's portrait following their meeting in Malacanan Palace on March 1, 2017.Madrid, 09/17/2019. Interview with the new Spanish cardinal, Miguel Ángel Ayuso, president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue ARCHDC photo by Maya Balanya.Fidel Valdez Ramos (born 1928), retired Filipino general and politician who served as the 12th president of the Philippines from 1992 to 1998. He is the only career military officer who reached the rank of five-star general/admiral de jure who rose from second lieutenant up to commander-in-chief of the armed forces. At age 93, he is currently the oldest living former Philippine president.A third-generation Thai Chinese, Chuan was born in Trang province. As the leader of the Democrat Party, Chuan was elected in 1992 after the abortive coup by General Suchinda Kraprayoon, thus becoming Thailand's first prime minister to come to power without either aristocratic or military backing. His first administration consisted of a five party coalition of the Democrat, New Aspiration, Palang Dhamma, Social Action and Social Unity Parties until he was defeated in the 1995 election, but assumed power in late 1997 following the fall of the Chavalit Yongchaiyudh administration, which was held responsible for the economic crisis that beset Thailand in 1997.New York, United States. 09th May, 2016. Devasish Roy speaks with the press. In conjunction with the opening of the fifteenth session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII15), incoming Chair of the Forum Alvaro Pop, Forum Member Devasish Roy, and Canadian Minister of Indigenous and Northern Affairs spoke at a press conference at UN Headquarters in New York City, outlining key areas of concern for the Forum. © Albin Lohr-Jones/Pacific Press/Alamy Live NewsAbdel Fattah el-Sisi (born 1954); Egyptian politician and current President of Egypt, in office since 2014.Jackie Chan at the Los Angeles premiere of 'The Karate Kid' held at the Mann Village Theater in Westwood, USA on June 7, 2010Aung San Suu Kyi (born June 19 1945) is a Burmese opposition politician and General Secretary of the National League for Democracy. In the 1990 general election, Suu Kyi was elected Prime Minister as leader of the winning National League for Democracy party, which won 59% of the vote and 394 of 492 seats. She had, however, already been detained under house arrest before the elections. She remained under house arrest in Myanmar for almost 15 years until 2010. Suu Kyi was the recipient of the Rafto Prize and the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in 1990 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. In 1992 she was awarded the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding by the Government of India. The 2012 Burmese by-elections were held on 1 April 2012. The elections were held to fill 45 vacant parliamentary seats. The main opposition party National League for Democracy was re-registered for the by-elections on 13 December 2011 as part of the reforms in Burma since 2010. NLD leader AuJOHN WOO in PAYCHECK (2003), directed by JOHN WOO.President Alberto Fujimori.Omar Alieu Touray, President of the ECOWAS Commission, Abouja, 05.02.2024Minister Mentor Lee Kuan YewKen Jeong Ken Jeong at the World premiere of Wonder Park held at the Regency Bruin Theatre in Westwood, USA on March 10, 2019. Copyright: xZoonar.com/Lumeimages.comx 21772710Yasser Arafat poster in Shatila refugee camp, Beirut, Lebanon.Omar Alieu Touray, President of the ECOWAS Commission, Abouja, 05.02.2024Lee Hsien Loong (simplified Chinese: 显龙; traditional Chinese: 顯龍; pinyin: Lǐ Xiǎnlóng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lí Hián-liông; born 10 February 1952) is the third and current Prime Minister of Singapore, and the eldest son of Singapore's first Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew.JOHN WOO in FACE OFF (1997), directed by JOHN WOO.Former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on politicization of his firingIeng Sary (born October 24, 1924) was a powerful figure in the Khmer Rouge. He was the Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Democratic Kampuchea from 1975 to 1979 and held several senior positions in the Khmer Rouge until his defection to the government in 1996. Of Khmer ancestry on his father's side, and Chinese ancestry on his mother's, Ieng Sary was born in Chau Thanh, Tra Vinh province, southern Vietnam. Sary changed his name from the Vietnamese Kim Trang when he joined the Khmer Rouge. Ieng Sary was arrested on November 12, 2007 in Phnom Penh on an arrest warrant from the Cambodia Tribunal for war crimes and crimes against humanity. His wife, Ieng Thirith, was also arrested for crimes against humanity. On 16 December 2009, the tribunal officially charged him with genocide for his involvement with the subjugation and murder of Vietnamese and Muslim minorities in Cambodia.Ang Lee at the Los Angeles premiere of 'Gemini Man' held at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, USA on October 6, 2019., Hollywood, California, USA, North AmericaOffice of Administration and Resource Management - Transformational Leadership Conference (TLC) with David Suzuki , Environmental Protection AgencyUnited Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi. Presidential Palace of the United Arab Emirates. Qasr Al-Watan. House of knowledge.. His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al MaktoumAboubacar Nacanabo, Minister of Finance and Economy of Burkinka Faso, 05/03/2024TAKASHI HIRANO in KAPPEI (2022), directed by TAKASHI HIRANO.