High-Level Government Meetings

Formal gatherings of officials in discussion at round tables, reflecting international diplomacy and high-stakes negotiations in grand settings.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry on the margins of the 76th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 76) in New York, New York, on September 22, 2021.

Office of the Secretary - SECRETARY DONALD EVANS TRIP TO RUSSIA

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry addresses Argentine Foreign Minister Susana Malcorra on August 4, 2016, at San Martin Palace in Buenos Aires, Argentina, at the outset of a bilateral meeting.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo delivers remarks at the Millennium Challenge Corporation Board Meeting, at the Department of State in Washington, D.C., on December 9, 2019.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo participates in a Quad Meeting with Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, and Indian External Affairs Minister Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, in Tokyo, Japan on October 6, 2020.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry chats with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen during a bilateral discussion preceding a NATO Ministerial meeting in Brussels, Belgium, on December 3, 2013.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry on the margins of the 76th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 76) in New York, New York, on September 22, 2021.

Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman meets with Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister Sedat �nal, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on September 17, 2021.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry addresses Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his delegation at the National Convention Center in Vientiane, Laos, on July 25, 2016, during the outset of a bilateral meeting on the sidelines the annual meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

Office of the Secretary - PHOTOS OF SECRETARY DONALD EVANS AND PUTIN FROM MOSCOW, RUSSIA

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Costa Rican Foreign Minister Rodolfo Solano Quir�s, Dominican Republic Foreign Minister Roberto �lvarez, and Panamanian Foreign Minister Erika Mouynes at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on March 2, 2022.

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Central America Free Trade Agreement Trade Mission to El Salvador (Arrival Airport, Bilat with C. A. Presidents, Working Lunch, Press Conference, One on One)

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Turkish Foreign Minister Davutoglu co-host the official launch of the Global Counterterrorism Forum, at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, New York, on September 22, 2011.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry delivers remarks at the Act on Climate: Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) Celebration of Energy and Environment Cooperation panel at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on June 23, 2015.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo, flanked by U.S. Ambassador to Belgium Ronald Gidwitz and Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs A. Well Mitchell, meets with Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel on the margins of the semi-annual meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers in Brussels, Belgium, on December 4, 2018.

(R-L) Svenja Schulze, Bundesministerin fuer wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung, trifft Zeina Toukan, Ministerin fuer Planung und Internationale Zusammenarbeit des Haschemitischen Koenigreichs Jordanien, zum Gespraech in Amman, 06.11.2023

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Meeting of the Federal Government's crisis team at the Federal Foreign Office, chaired by Annalena Baerbock (Alliance 90/The Greens), Federal Foreign Minister. The topic of the meeting is the situation in the Middle East following Iran's attack on Israel. Other participants include Federal Defence Minister Boris Pistorius, the Inspector General of the German Armed Forces, General Carsten Breuer, and the President of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND), Bruno Kahl. 'Photographed on behalf of the Federal Foreign Office'

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Australia Foreign Minister Julie Bishop sit with their respective teams at the start of a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of an APEC Ministerial Meeting in Beijing, China, on November 8, 2014.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo delivers opening remarks at the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS Small Group Ministerial, at the Department of State in Washington D.C. on November 14, 2019.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry addresses the Foreign Ministers from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, and the European Union, in Ballou Hall on the campus of Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, on September 24, 2016, at the outset of a meeting of the so-called Quintet in the Secretary's home-state of Massachusetts.

Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III and Indian Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar engage in a bilateral exchange at the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., Sept. 26, 2022.

Office of the Secretary - SECRETARY DONALD EVANS TRIP TO RUSSIA

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel and European Council President-elect in Brussels, Belgium on September 3, 2019.

Office of the Secretary - Secretary Carlos Gutierrez Greets Latvian Prime Minister Aigars Kalvitis

State Department Senior Adviser David Thorne, flanked by Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs Charles Rivkin and Special Representative for Commercial and Business Affairs Scott Nathan, sit across from their counterparts at the outset of a series of security and economic meetings during a Strategic Dialogue between the United States and Egypt in Cairo, Egypt, on August 2, 2015.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Kazakhstan Foreign Minister Erlan A. Idrisov, and their respective delegations sit across from one another on December 3, 2015, at the outset of a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the 22nd OSCE Ministerial Council session in Belgrade, Serbia.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, joined by Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman and U.S. Energy Secretary Dr. Ernest Moniz, sits with his fellow P5+1 and European Union Foreign Ministers and their Political Directors on July 9, 2015, in Vienna, Austria, as their countries meet amid negotiations with Iranian officials about the future of their country's nuclear program.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Bruneian Foreign Minister II Dato Erywan Yusof, in London, United Kingdom, on May 3, 2021.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Ahmed Nasser Al-Mohammed Al-Sabah at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on January 26, 2022.

Deputy Secretary of State Antony "Tony" Blinken meets with Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki in Tokyo, Japan, on April 18, 2016.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with U.S. University Research Community, in California on January 14, 2020.

Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Daniel Russel and Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asia and Pacific Security David Shear deliver remarks before the Subcommittee for Defense Corporation at Japan�s Ministry of Defense in Tokyo, Japan, on October 8, 2014.

Office of the Secretary - PHOTOS OF SECRETARY DONALD EVANS AND PUTIN FROM MOSCOW, RUSSIA

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on January 13, 2022.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry holds a bilateral meeting with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta at the United Nations headquarters in New York City on September 25, 2014. The Secretary is holding meetings in conjunction with the 69th Session of the UN General Assembly.

Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivers remarks at the Global Counter-Terrorism Forum in New York City, New York on September 21, 2016.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sits across from British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson at Lancaster House in London, U.K., on October 16, 2016, at the outset of a multinational meeting seeking an end to the war in Syria.

Office of the Secretary - SECRETARY DONALD EVANS TRIP TO RUSSIA

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Democratic Republic of Congo Foreign Minister Raymond Tshibanda, flanked by their respective staffs, meet in Kinshasa on May 3, 2014.

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U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with North Macedonia Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and North Macedonia Cabinet Ministers in Lake Ohrid, North Macedonia, on October 4, 2019.

International Trade Administration - President's Export Council Breakfast and Meeting

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo joins a Trilateral Strategic Dialogue Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Bishop and Japanese FM Kono at ASEAN in Singapore, Singapore, August 4, 2018.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas in Tallin, Estonia, on March 8, 2022.

Office of the Secretary - Central American Trade And Labor Ministers

(L-R) Annalena Baerbock, Bundesaussenministerin, trifft Ayman Safadi, Minister fuer Auswaertige Angelegenheiten Jordanien, zum Gespraech im Auswaertigen Amt in Berlin, 16.10.2023

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo participates in a meeting on energy issues in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on August 13, 2020.

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Central America Free Trade Agreement Trade Mission to Guatemala

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Geneva, Switzerland, on January 21, 2022.

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

Maro_ _ef_ovi_, Vice President of the European Union for Energy Union, addresses the seventh U.S.-EU Energy Council meeting on May 4, 2016, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. Also pictured are European Union High Representative Federica Mogherini, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, and U.S. Secretary of Energy Dr. Ernest Moniz.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and former Moroccan Ambassador to the U.S. Aziz Mekouar host the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate Ministerial Meeting at the 22nd UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP22) in Marrakech, Morocco, on November 16, 2016.

Aides to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry listen as he addresses Laotian Prime Minister Thongsing Thammavong during the outset of a bilateral meeting on January 25, 2016, at the Government House in Vientiane, Laos.

Deputy Secretary of State Antony "Tony" Blinken and Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Daniel Russel meet with Thai Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai on the sidelines of the 70th Regular Session of the UN General Assembly in New York, New York, on September 27, 2015.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and former Moroccan Ambassador to the U.S. Aziz Mekouar host the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate Ministerial Meeting at the 22nd UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP22) in Marrakech, Morocco, on November 16, 2016.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid in Riga, Latvia, on March 7, 2022.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in Jerusalem on May 25, 2021.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry - flanked by Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman, Chief of Staff Jon Finer, and National Security Council Senior Director for Iran, Iraq, Syria and the Gulf States Robert Malley, sits across from French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and his advisers on March 25, 2015, in Lausanne, Switzerland, as the P5+1 allies discuss negotiations about the future of Iran's nuclear program.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sits with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini and their respective advisers at the Berlaymont Building - the headquarters of the European Commission - in Brussels, Belgium, on June 27, 2016, at the outset of a meeting in the aftermath of last week's Brexit vote in the United Kingdom.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, in Kuwait City, Kuwait on July 28, 2021.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and a group of advisers - State Department Executive Assistant Lisa Kenna, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Egypt and Maghreb Affairs John Desrocher, and Chief of StaffJon Finer - sit with King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa of Bahrain and his advisers on March 14, 2015, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, at the outset of a bilateral meeting amid an Egyptian development conference.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel sit down with their Australian counterparts - Foreign Minister Julie Bishop and Defense Minister David Johnston - for a dinner at the Prime Minister's residence, Kirribilli House, preceding the AUSMIN diplomatic and military bilateral meeting between the two countries on August 11, 2014.

President Barack Obama meets with Presidents Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) in the State Dining Room, August 7, 2009.

Deputy Secretary of State Antony "Tony" Blinken meets with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko at the Bankova in Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 6, 2015.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry delivers his opening remarks on February 2, 2016, at the Italian Foreign Ministry in Rome, Italy, at the outset of a meeting of the multinational counter-ISIL coalition.

Office of the Administrator (Stephen L. Johnson) - Lunch with National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC, China) , Environmental Protection Agency

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken participates in a Ministerial meeting on Libya hosted by German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio, and Libyan Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush, on the margins of the 76th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 76) in New York, New York, on September 22, 2021.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken participates in a virtual meet and greet with U.S. Mission Republic of Korea, in Seoul, Republic of Korea on March 17, 2021.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sits with his counterparts on March 13, 2015, at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris, France, before they held an E4+1 meeting - including representatives of France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and European Union - focused on Syria, Libya, Yemen, Ukraine, and other foreign policy matters.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, joined by U.S. Energy Secretary Dr. Ernest Moniz and Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman, sits with his fellow P5+1 and European Union Foreign Ministers and their Political Directors on July 13, 2015, in Vienna, Austria, amid negotiations with Iranian officials about the future of their country's nuclear program.

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Jacob Lew, Chinese State Councilor Yang, and Chinese Vice Premier Wang deliver their closing statements of the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue in the Cash Room at the U.S. Department of Treasury in Washington, D.C., on July 11, 2013.

U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Darius Banaji, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) deputy director for operations, gathers with the Lao People's Democratic Republic delegation (Laos PDR) officials during Technical Talks on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, Sept. 8, 2022. Technical talks are a brief between representatives of the DPAA and Lao People's Democratic Republic, aimed to discuss continued joint field operations throughout the country for the upcoming year, address policy and operational initiatives, and explore how to increase mission effectiveness and efficiency to account for U.S. personnel who are still missing. A Memorandum for Record is the official document signed by both parties allowing the DPAA mission to continue on the search to recover the remaining 285 Americans still missing in action in Laos.

Under Secretary of State Keith J. Krach participates in the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation board meeting at the U.S. Department of State on March 11, 2020.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry listens as Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera addresses reporters at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on February 25, 2016.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo participates in a Quad Meeting with Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, and Indian External Affairs Minister Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, in Tokyo, Japan on October 6, 2020.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo and U.S. delegation participate in a bilateral meeting with North Korea's Vice Chairman Kim Yong Chol and the North Korea delegation in Pyongyang, North Korea on July 6, 2018.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivers remarks at the Haiti Partners Ministerial meeting in New York, New York on September 27, 2012.

Dec. 18, 2009 The President briefs European leaders following a multilateral meeting in which an agreement was tentatively reached at the United Nationals Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. Most conferences like this are very scripted; this one was just the opposite.”

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken participates in a women�s economic and digital roundtable in Dakar, Senegal, on November 20, 2021.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Canadian Foreign Minister Marc Garneau, in Reykjavik, Iceland, on May 19, 2021.

Office of the Secretary - Meeting with Turkish Minister of Trade Kursadtuzman

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

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and U.S. Ambassador to Belgium Denise Bauer sit across from Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel and Foreign Minister Didier Reynders after they arrived at the Prime Minister�s Residence in Brussels, Belgium, on March 25, 2016, to pay condolences on behalf of the American people following the twin terrorists attacks earlier in the week on the city and country.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson participates in the Ministerial Discussion on Syria, on the margins of the 72nd Regular Session of the UN General Assembly in New York City on September 18, 2017.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo participates in a working breakfast meeting with the Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Nguyen Xuan Phuc on July 8, 2018 in Hanoi, Vietnam. (

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry addresses reporters during a news conference after he and U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter met with their Japanese counterparts, Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, middle left, and Defense Minister Gen Nakatani, far left, for a 2+2 meeting to discuss foreign policy and defense issues in New York, New York, on April 27, 2015.

Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman meets with Uzbekistan Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on October 3, 2021.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry chats with American and Egyptian businessmen and women at an American Chamber of Commerce breakfast in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on March 13, 2015, before meetings with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, other regional leaders, and his attendance at an Egyptian development conference.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and a team of advisers - including White House Senior Adviser Brian Deese, U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Senior Legal Adviser Sue Biniaz, and State Department climate change specials Claire Sierawski and Melanie Nakagawa - discuss the final draft language of the multinational agreement emerging from the COP21 climate change conference on December 12, 2015, in the U.S. delegation room at LeBourget Airport in Paris, France.

Annalena Baerbock (Buendnis 90 Die Gruenen), Bundesaussenministerin, nimmt Teil am Treffen der G7- Aussenministerinnen und Aussenminister in Tokyo, Japan. Hier ein Treffen mit ihrer japanische Amtskollegin Yoko Kamikawa im japanischen Aussenministerium

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson joins bilateral meeting with the Secretary General of the Communist Party Nguyen Phu Trong at the Vietnam Communist Party Headquarters in Hanoi, Vietnam, on November 12, 2017.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi at a meeting at the Zhongnanhai Leadership Compound in Beijing, China on February 14, 2014.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton holds a bilateral meeting Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyravov in Munich, Germany, on February 6, 2011.

Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland participates in a bilateral meeting with Tunisian Foreign Minister Othman Jerand in New York, on September 20, 2021.

(R-L) Annalena Baerbock, Bundesaussenministerin, trifft Antonio Tajani, Minister fuer auswaertige Angelegenheiten und internationale Zusammenarbeit der Italienischen Republik, zu einem Gespraech im Auswaertigen Amt. Berlin, 28.09.2023

Office of the Deputy Secretary (David Sampson) - Deputy Secretary Sampson's Visit to Morocco

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry delivers remarks at the Global Health Security Agenda meeting, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on December 14, 2016.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo participates in a Syria small group meeting in Brussels, Belgium on July 12, 2018.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew meet with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang to discuss the conclusion of the 5th Annual U.S.-China People-to-People Exchange and Sixth Strategic and Economic Dialogue between the two nations on July 10, 2014.

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