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International Diplomatic Meetings

A collection of international diplomatic meetings, featuring discussions among officials with flags in the background, emphasizing formal attire and serious engagements.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura, and their respective teams sit together on November 13, 2015, at the Hotel Imperial in Vienna, Austria, before a bilateral meeting focused on Syria.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with Czech Foreign Minister Tomas Petricek in Munich, Germany, on February 14, 2020.

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.

President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin participate in a tete-a-tete during a U.S.-Russia Summit on Wednesday, June 16, 2021, at the Villa La Grange in Geneva.

President Barack Obama meets with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at the Shangri-La Hotel in Singapore, Nov. 15, 2009.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura, and their respective teams sit together on November 13, 2015, at the Hotel Imperial in Vienna, Austria, before a bilateral meeting focused on Syria.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry chats with U.S. Energy Secretary Dr. Ernest Moniz on March 29, 2015, in Lausanne, Switzerland, before they resumed negotiations with Iranian leaders about the future of their country's nuclear program.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry shares a laugh with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov before they held a one-on-one meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on August 5, 2015, amid the ASEAN Ministerial Meeting.

Reporters look on as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry stands with Turkish Foreign Minister Feridun Sinirloglu, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on October 23, 2015, at the Imperial Hotel in Vienna, Austria, before a four-way discussion focused on Syria.

From left to right, former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, and former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger chat at the State Luncheon in honor of the Prime Minister at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on March 10, 2016.

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

Deputy Secretary John Sullivan meets with Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi on the sidelines of the G-20 Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Nagoya, Japan, on November 23, 2019.

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, left to right, are UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Antony "Tony" Blinken, and Turkish Foreign Minister Feridun Sinirlio_lu.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sits across from Tajikistan President Emomail Rahmon on November 3, 2015, at the Palace of Nations in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, at the outset of a bilateral meeting.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif look across at each other on May 17, 2016, as they settle into the Blue Salon at the Palais Coburg Hotel in Vienna, Austria, the same room where they negotiated the Iranian nuclear deal, to have further conversations about the implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and the U.S. delegation, left, as well as Mexican Foreign Secretary Patricia Espinosa and the Mexican delegation, right, discuss bilateral issues in Guanajuato, Mexico, on January 24, 2011.

President Donald J. Trump meets with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in London, England, on December 3, 2019.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond at the Carlton Gardens in London, United Kingdom.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Athens, Greece, on October 5, 2019.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Special Envoy Angelina Jolie Pitt prepare to address the press on World Refugees Day at the U.S. Department of State in Washington D.C. on June 20, 2016.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and European Commission Vice-President Josep Borrell at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on October 14, 2021.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry attends a bilateral meeting with French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault on December 6, 2016, as they both attend a North Atlantic Treaty Organization Ministerial Session at the alliance's headquarters in Brussels, Belgium.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and European Union High Representative Federica Mogherini address reporters at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on May 4, 2016.

President Barack Obama, center-left, and President Dmitry Medvedev of Russia, center-right, attend the expanded delegation bilateral meeting at Prague Castle in Prague, Czech Republic, April 8, 2010.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo holds a joint press availability with Paraguayan Foreign Minister Luis Castiglioni, in Asunci�n, Paraguay, April 13, 2019.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on September 16, 2020.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson meets with Polish President Andrzej Duda in Warsaw, Poland, on January 26, 2018.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with Israeli Alternate Prime Minister and Defense Minister Benny Gantz and Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenzai in Jerusalem, Israel, on August 24, 2020.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry prepares to sit down with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Vienna, Austria, on July 14, 2014, before they begin a second bilateral meeting focused on Iran's nuclear program.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on September 15, 2021.

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 29, 2015.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson meets with French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault on the sidelines of the G-20 Foreign Ministers� Meeting in Bonn, Germany, on February 16, 2017. This is his first official trip as Secretary of State.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sits with Vice President Joe Biden on February 7, 2015, in Munich, Germany, as he attends a bilateral meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference.

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris meet with Secretary of State Antony Blinken Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021, at the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C.

Secretary Michael R. Pompeo meets with United Nations Secretary-General Ant�nio Guterres, at the Department of State, October 23, 2018.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo speaks with Adam Boulton of Sky News in London, United Kingdom, on May 8, 2019.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, in Rome, Italy on September 30, 2020.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Chilean Foreign Minister Andr�s Allamand, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on July 16, 2021.

President Donald J. Trump meets with French President Emmanuel Macron in London, England, on December 3, 2019.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with El Salvadoran Foreign Minister Alexandra Hill, at the Department of State, in Washington, DC on October 10, 2019.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk, Belarus, on February 1, 2020.

U.S. Secretary of State Kerry poses for a photo, from left to right, with Democratic Party leader Marian Lupu, Parliament Speaker Igor Corman, Foreign Minister Natalia Gherman, President Nicolae Timofti, Prime Minister Iurie Leanca, Liberal Democratic Party leader Vlad Filat, and Liberal Reform Party Leader Ion Hadarca, after their meeting in Chisinau, Moldova, on December 4, 2013.

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 1, 2015, in Vienna, Austria, before amid negotiations about the future of Iran's nuclear program.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, in Reykjavik, Iceland, on May 19, 2021.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, in Reykjavik, Iceland, on May 19, 2021.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry holds a bilateral meeting with UK Foreign Secretary William Hague in New York City on September 23, 2013.

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.

Secretary Pompeo meets with Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, at the Department of State, in Washington, DC, on August 21, 2018. (

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton meets with Greek Foreign Minister Stavros Lambrinidis in Athens, Greece, on July 17, 2011.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry delivers opening remarks at an AUSMIN meeting with Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, Australian Defense Minister David Johnston, and U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel in Sydney, Australia on August 12, 2014.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, flanked by U.S. Ambassador to Turkey John Bass and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Toria Nuland, 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 hosts a working lunch with Italian President Giorgio Napolitano at the Blair House in Washington, D.C., February 15, 2013.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo participates in a question and answer session on "Unalienable Rights and the Securing of Freedom" at The National Constitution Center, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania., on July 16, 2020.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Moroccan Foreign Minister Salaheddine Mezouar prepare to address reporters after their bilateral meeting at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on April 9, 2015.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Budapest, Hungary on February 11, 2019.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo participates in a small group dinner hosted by U.S. Ambassador to the UK Woody Johnson, in London, United Kingdom, on July 21, 2020.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry delivers remarks at a State luncheon in honor of His Excellency Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on August 2, 2016.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, with U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Spain and Principality of Andorra James Costos and Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Toria Nuland, meets with King Felipe VI of Spain, Spanish Foreign Minister Jos� Garc�a-Margallo, and Spanish Ambassador to the U.S. Ram�n Gil-Casares, in the King's private office at the Zarzuela Palace in Madrid on October 19, 2015.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis at Castle Grande in Bellinzona, Switzerland, on June 2, 2019.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl in Warsaw, Poland on February 14, 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.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Norwegian Foreign Minister Ine Marie Eriksen Soreide, in Reykjavik, Iceland, on May 19, 2021.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias in Thessaloniki, Greece, on September 28, 2020.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry listens as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu makes a statement to assembled reporters before a bilateral meeting on November 24, 2015, at the Prime Minister�s Office in Jerusalem.

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.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry listens as Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh answers a reporter's questions before the two held a bilateral meeting in Paris, France, on November 5, 2014.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Kerry and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier address reporters after their working lunch at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on February 27, 2014.

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 and U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom Matthew Barzun sit with newly installed British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson in his office in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in London U.K., on July 19, 2016, before their first bilateral meeting.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with Kazakh Foreign Minister Beibut Atamkulov at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on July 2, 2019.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry welcomes Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Afghan CEO Abdullah Abdullah to a dinner that he hosted in honor of the Afghan leaders at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on March 24, 2015.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson meets with Organization of American States Secretary General Luis Almagro at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on October 13, 2017.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo hosts a working dinner for NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, at the Department of State in Washington, D.C., on May 16, 2018.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation, Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on February 3, 2021.

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.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, flanked by U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman, U.S.Energy Secretary Dr. Ernest Moniz, and National Security Council Senior Director for Iran, Iraq, Syria and the Gulf States Robert Malley, sit 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 17, 2015, in Lausanne, Switzerland, before resuming negotiations about the future of Iran's nuclear program.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with Japanese Foreign Minister Tar_ K_no in Tokyo, Japan on July 7, 2018. (

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry delivers remarks to members of Partners for a New Beginning (PNB) at the Blair House in Washington, D.C., on May 3, 2013.

Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman meets with Canadian Deputy Foreign Minister Marta Morgan 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, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, and their respective advisers sit across from one another on January 16, 2016, at the Palais Coburg Hotel in Vienna, Austria, before a meeting about the implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action outlining the shape of Iran's nuclear program.

Secretary Michael R. Pompeo meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at Blair House in Washington, D.C., on September 15, 2020.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry prepares to shake hands with President Nursultan Nazarbayev before meeting in the Gold Room at Ak Orda Presidential Palace in Astana, Kazakhstan, November 2, 2015.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics, at the Department of State, on February 27, 2020.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida 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 poses for a photo after a meeting on December 7, 2016, at the Fairmont Vier Jahreszeiten Hamburg Hotel in Hamburg, Germany, with the "C5+1" Foreign Ministers - from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan - as the Secretary visits the German city to attend a meeting of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. The Foreign Minister of Turkmenistan was unable to attend.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo delivers remarks to the press with Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades, in Nicosia, Cyprus, on September 12, 2020.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Italian Foreign Minister Emma Bonino in Rome, Italy, on May 9, 2013.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov answers a reporter's question before he and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry take their respective seats for a bilateral meeting on August 26, 2016, at the President Wilson Hotel in Geneva, Switzerland.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with Cypriot Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides, at the Department of State, November 6, 2018.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry delivers remarks at a working luncheon that he hosted in honor of Nordic leaders: Finnish President Sauli Niinist�, Norwegian Prime Minster Erna Solberg, Swedish Prime Minister Stefan L�fven, Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen, and Icelandic Prime Minster Sigurdur Ingi Johannsson, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on May 13, 2016.

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.

Photograph of United States Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel (1946-) meeting with Prime Minister Shinz Abe of Japan (1954-). Dated 2014

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry takes the stage with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, Israel, on July 23, 2014, to pose for a photograph before the two sat down to discuss a possible cease-fire to stop Israel's fight with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Philippine Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin, Jr. at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on September 9, 2021.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry embraces German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on March 7, 2015, in the Quai d'Orsay - the French Foreign Minister building - in Paris, France, before a five-way discussion with, from right to left, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, and European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini before a five-way meeting focused on the Secretary's recent Iran nuclear negotiations, his meeting with the Gulf Cooperation Council in Saudi Arabia, Ukraine, and other regional issues.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry hosts lunch for Pakistani Foreign Affairs Advisor Sartaj Aziz during the U.S.-Pakistan Strategic Dialogue at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on February 29, 2016.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry shakes hands with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on May 17, 2016, at the Palais Niederosterreich Hotel in Vienna, Austria, before a meeting of the International Syria Support Group.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry listens as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu makes a statement to assembled reporters before a bilateral meeting on November 24, 2015, at the Prime Minister�s Office in Jerusalem.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton holds a joint press availability with Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa following the first U.S.-Indonesian Joint Commission meeting at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on September 17, 2010.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton holds a bilateral meeting with Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on August 31, 2010.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry delivers remarks with Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlut Cavusoglu at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, DC on April 21, 2015.

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