International Diplomatic Meetings

Formal gatherings of global leaders discussing key issues. The scenes convey a serious atmosphere with flags and a conference setting, highlighting international cooperation.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on March 18 2022.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry shares a laugh with European Union High Representative Federica Mogherini and U.S. Secretary of Energy Dr. Ernest Moniz at the seventh U.S.-EU Energy Council meeting on May 4, 2016, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C.

Office of the Secretary - Prime Minister of Poland Merek Belka

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sits with his counterparts from Germany, China, the European Union, France, the United Kingdom, and Russia on March 30, 2015, in Lausanne, Switzerland, before the P5+1 partner nations resume their strategic conversations about negotiating with Iranian officials over the future of their country's nuclear program.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly meet with senior leaders at the Conference on Prosperity and Security in Central America, at Florida International University in Miami, Florida, on June 15, 2017.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken holds a press availability with Israeli Alternate Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on October 13, 2021.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets virtually with the Foreign Ministers of the G20 Nations, at the Palace Hotel, in New York City, New York, on September 22, 2021.

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Thai Deputy Prime Minister of Commerce Somkid Jatursrintak

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on March 18 2022.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Jacob Lew, Chinese State Councilor Yang, and Chinese Vice Premier Wang participate in the U.S.-China Economic and Strategic Dialogue Joint Session on Climate Change at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, DC on July 10, 2013.

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

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with the Foreign Minister of Japan at the Palace Hotel, in New York City, New York, on September 22, 2021.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken delivers remarks on the 2020 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, from the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on March 30, 2021.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on April 22, 2022.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Romanian Foreign Minister Teodor Baconschi sign the Ballistic Missile Defense Agreement, in the Treaty Room at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on September 13, 2011.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, and their respective teams sit down for a bilateral discussion focused on deescalating tensions in Ukraine in London, United Kingdom, on March 14, 2014.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken hosts a joint press availability with Japanese Foreign Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa and Republic of Korea Foreign Minister Chung Eui-yong in Honolulu, Hawaii, on February 12, 2022.

Charg� d'Affaires Christopher Henzel introduces U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, before he delivers remarks to and meets with staff and families from U.S. Embassy Riyadh, in Riyadh, Saudi, Arabia, on April 29, 2018. (

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson hosts a luncheon for Foreign Ministers who participated in the United Nations Security Council Ministerial Session in New York City on April 28, 2017.

Office of the Secretary - Secretary Carlos Gutierrez with Polish Dep. Prime Minister Jerzy Hausner

Greece, Athens on 2023-02-21. US Secretary of State, Head of the Department of Foreign Affairs, Antony J. Blinken, sometimes known as Tony Blinken, visiting the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the U.S.-Greece Strategic Dialogue and meeting with his Greek counterpart Minister Nikos Dendias. Photograph by Martin Bertrand. Grece, Athenes le 2023-02-21. Le Secretaire d'Etat des Etats-Unis, le chef département charge des Affaires etrangeres, Antony J. Blinken, dit parfois Tony Blinken, en visite au Ministere des Affaires Etrangeres Grec pour le U.S.-Greece Strategic Dialogue et une rencontre son homologue grec le Ministre Nikos Dendias. Photographie de Martin Bertrand.

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Thai Deputy Prime Minister of Commerce Somkid Jatursrintak

Office of the Secretary - Secretary Carlos Gutierrez with Polish Dep. Prime Minister Jerzy Hausner

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice President of the European Commission Josep Borrell at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on February 7, 2022.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo hosts a Quad Meeting with Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne, Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, and Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, at the Palace Hotel, in New York City, New York on September 26, 2019.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken Co-hosts a virtual ministerial on Afghanistan with German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, on September 8, 2021.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, joined by U.S. Ambassador to Colombia Kevin Whitaker and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemispheric Affairs Roberta Jacobson, meets with Colombian lead negotiator Humberto de la Calle, right, and High Commissioner for Peace Sergio Jaramillo, left, on December 12, 2014, in Bogota, Colombia, to receive an update about their efforts to negotiate a peace treaty FARC rebels.

President Barack Obama attends a meeting with electric utility executives and trade association representatives at the Department of Energy in Washington, D.C., May 8, 2013. The group met to discuss lessons learned during the response to Hurricane Sandy, as well as the ongoing preparations for the 2013 hurricane season, which begins June 1.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry delivers remarks to the Plenary Session of partner Ambassadors of the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on February 3, 2015.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry takes notes on the back of a piece of paper as Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaks with him about policy matters after the P5+1 member nations concluded a nuclear deal with Iran in Geneva, Switzerland, on November 24, 2013.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis shake hands after signing a Memorandum of Understanding to increase cooperation aimed at building foreign law enforcement capacity at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on May 13, 2013. The Boston Police Department has a long history of promoting partnerships in both the public and private sectors to reduce violence and strengthen public safety initiatives. Plans for this new partnership predate the marathon bombings in the Secretary's hometown.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Jacob Lew, Chinese State Councilor Yang, and Chinese Vice Premier Wang participate in the U.S.-China Economic and Strategic Dialogue Joint Session on Energy Security at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, DC on July 10, 2013.

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

Office of the Secretary - SECRETARY DONALD EVANS TRIP TO RUSSIA

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo hosts a working luncheon for the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS Small Group Ministerial, at the Department of State in Washington D.C. on November 14, 2019.

Technology Administration - SIGNING CEREMONY WITH SECRETARY DONALD EVANS AND RUSSIAN MINISTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Sept. 18, 2014 "Given how much of the President's time was occupied with Ukraine this year, I thought it was important to show the President meeting with President Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine in the Oval Office."

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken holds a joint press availability with Australian Foreign Minister and Minister for Women Marise Payne at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on May 13, 2021.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken holds a joint press availability with Australian Foreign Minister and Minister for Women Marise Payne at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on May 13, 2021.

Deputy Secretary of State Antony "Tony" Blinken speaks at a meeting of the International Syria Support Group (ISSG) Ceasefire Task Force to express U.S. support for the ongoing effort to nurture the cessation of hostilities in Syria at the Palais de Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, on March 3, 2016.

Ambassador-at-Large to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons John Richmond delivers remarks on the virtual release of the 2020 Trafficking in Persons Report on June 25, 2020 at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, DC.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken hosts a_ virtual _ministerial_ meeting_ with _key partners_ on_ Afghanistan,_ including_ Canada, France, Germany, Italy,_ Japan, the United Kingdom, Turkey, Qatar, the European Union, and NATO, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on August 30, 2021.

Deputy Secretary of State Antony "Tony" Blinken meets with Libyan Foreign Minister Mohamed Dayri at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on February 19, 2015. The meeting occurred on the margins of the White House Summit to Counter Violent Extremism.

President Barack Obama meets with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus in the State Dining Room of the White House, May 3, 2011.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken hosts a roundtable with members of the Semiconductor Industrial Association, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on April 22, 2021.

Secretary of State Michael Antony J. Blinken meets with the International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on October 18, 2021.

Deputy Secretary of State Antony "Tony" Blinken releases the 2015 Annual Report on International Religious Freedom at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on August 10, 2016.

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 John Kerry sits next to U.S. Energy Secretary Dr. Ernest Moniz, as well as British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, on July 6, 2015, in Vienna, Austria, before the P5+1 member countries met with Iranian officials amid negotiations about the future of their country's nuclear program.

Office of the Secretary - Secretary Carlos Gutierrez with German Gref, Russian Minister for Economic Development

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with United Kingdom Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio, and French Political Director Philippe Errera, in Brussels, Belgium on April 14, 2021.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sits with French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, Baroness Catherine Ashton of the European Union, and British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, as well as German Ministry of Foreign Affairs Political Director Hans-Dieter Lucas (not pictured), sit at a table in Vienna, Austria, on November 21, 2014, amid a series of multilateral discussions about the future of Iran's nuclear program.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with Indian External Affairs Minister Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, in New Delhi, India, on October 26, 2020.

Office of the Secretary - Press Conference- Decatur House Secretary Carlos Gutierrez & EU Consr.

Office of the Secretary - SECRETARY DONALD EVANS' REMARKS TO COUNCIL OF AMERICAS

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

President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at their working lunch in the Old Family Dining Room of the White House, Monday, May 18, 2009.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his delegation sit with Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Education Minister Vu Duc Dam and their counterparts in the Vietnamese Office of Government in Hanoi, Vietnam, at the outset of a meeting on August 7, 2015, focused on the newly launched Fulbright University Vietnam.

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris meet with Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, National Security Adviser to the President Jake Sullivan, National Security Adviser to the Vice President Nancy McEldowney, and Senior Director for Defense Cara Abercrombie in the Oval Office of the White House Monday, March 8, 2021, prior to meeting with Combatant Commander nominees U.S. Air Force Gen. Jacqueline Van Ovost and U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Laura Richardson.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton holds U.S.-Iraq High Coordinating Committee Meeting with His Excellency Nouri al-Maliki, Prime Minister of the Republic of Iraq at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, DC July 24, 2009.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry listens as President Obama joins European leaders in a discussion with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko before the NATO Summit in Newport, Wales, on September 4, 2014.

USAID Deputy Administrator Don Steinberg, at the podium, addresses reporters in a special press briefing on the New Republic of South Sudan, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on July 7, 2011. He was joined by U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Susan Rice, second from left; and Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson, right.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sits with a group of Asia-Pacific advisers - Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Daniel Russel, Deputy Chief of Staff Jon Finer, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Susan Thornton, APEC Senior Official Robert Wang, Deputy Speechwriter Andrew Imbrie, Deputy Spokesperson Marie Harf, and U.S. Ambassador to China Max Baucus - before attending the opening session of the APEC Ministerial meeting in Beijing, China, on November 7, 2014.

Office of Enforcement and Compliance - Extension Letter of Intent on Continued Good Laboratory Practice Standards Compliance Monitoring Project between the United States and China , Environmental Protection Agency

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken holds a press availability with Israeli Alternate Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on October 13, 2021.

Office of the Secretary - SECRETARY DONALD EVANS WITH EC COMMISSIONER OF TRADE

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi address reporters after their bilateral meeting at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on February 23, 2016.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry officiates the 132nd Civil Service Orientation Class Swearing-In Ceremony, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on October 28, 2016.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo, Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan, Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono and Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya participate in a joint press availability following the Security Consultative Committee (�2+2�) meeting at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on April 19, 2019.

Polish Foreign Minister Radislow Sikorski waits as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry finishes signing an Innovation Framework Agreement in advance of President Obama's visit to Warsaw on June 3, 2014.

Office of the Secretary - SECRETARY DONALD EVANS WITH PRES OF PERU ALEJANDRO TOLEDO

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez Address Asian Society

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Meets with Ambassador Zhou and Chinese Delegation

Press briefing, concerning the President's International Initiative to Combat Kleptocracy, featuring remarks by Under Secretary for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs Josette Shiner, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich, and Treasury Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing Pat O'Brien, among other officials.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken holds a joint press availability with Costa Rican President Carlos Alvarado, in San Jose, Costa Rica on June 1, 2021.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi sit across from one another at a meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing, China on February 14, 2014.

Ambassador Wendy R. Sherman signs her appointment papers to become the Deputy Secretary of State at a ceremony at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 2021.

Brian Hook is the U.S. Special Representative for Iran and Senior Policy Advisor to the Secretary of State and Nathan Sales, Coordinator for Counterterrorism address the media at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on April 8, 2019.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Romanian Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on November 8, 2021.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton chairs the annual meeting of the President's Interagency Task Force To Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons with U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis, U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr., U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, U.S. Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs Maria Otero, and U.S. Ambassador-at-Large Luis CdeBaca, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on February 1, 2011.

Office of the Secretary - Digital Files of Secretary Donald Evans Tenure 01-04

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary With Russia Minister of Education and Science Furensko

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken participates in the U.S.-Mexico High Level Security Dialogue in Mexico City, Mexico, on October 8, 2021.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his team sit across from Saudi Arabia Crown Prince Muhammad bin Nayef, Deputy Crown Prince, Mohammad bin Salman Al Saud, Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir, and other advisers before a bilateral meeting at the King's Residence in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on August 24, 2016.

Deputy Secretary of State Antony "Tony" Blinken and Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha Biswal meet with Indian Foreign Secretary Subrahmanyam Jaishankar before their working lunch at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on February 19, 2015. The Deputy Secretary met with the Indian Foreign Secretary on the margins of the White House Summit to Counter Violent Extremism.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Thai Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on September 27, 2021.

Deputy Secretary of State Antony "Tony" Blinken, Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki, and South Korean First Vice Foreign Minister Lim Sung-nam pose for a photo following their bilateral and trilateral meetings, where they discussed a variety of topics including the recent North Korean nuclear test, regional issues, and cooperation on global priorities including health security and development, in Tokyo, Japan, on January 16, 2016.

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Press Conference Cuba (Secretary Gutierrez and Condoleezza Rice)

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry walks with Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh as the two headed to a joint news conference following a bilateral meeting on August 7, 2015, at the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Guesthouse in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs Ian Brownlee delivers remarks to the media in the Press Briefing Room, at the Department of State in Washington, D.C., on April 7, 2020.

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris receive a briefing on western wildfires, Wednesday, June 30, 2021, in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building at the White House.

Secretary Michael R. Pompeo delivers remarks and holds a Q&A session on January 23, 2020 in Kingston, Jamaica.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken holds a meet and greet with employees from U.S. Embassy Chisinau in Chisinau, Moldova on March 6, 2022.

Senior Official for the Bureau of International Religious Freedom Daniel Nadel delivers remarks to the press on the release of the 2020 International Religious Freedom Report, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on May 12, 2021.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with Dominican Republic Foreign Minister Miguel Vargas Maldonado, in Kingston, Jamaica on January 22, 2020.

Press briefing, concerning the President's International Initiative to Combat Kleptocracy, featuring remarks by Under Secretary for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs Josette Shiner, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich, and Treasury Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing Pat O'Brien, among other officials.

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris participate in a listening session with AAPI community leaders Friday, March 19, 2021, at Emory University in Atlanta.

NASA Leadership Meets with Delegation from Israel. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and NASA Associate Administrator Bob Cabana meet with Israels Minister of Innovation, Science, and Technology, Ofir Akunis, Monday, March 27, 2023 at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington DC.

Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland briefs reporters during a Department Press Briefing, from the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on January 27, 2022.

(R-L) Annalena Baerbock, Bundesaussenministerin, trifft Jens Stoltenberg, NATO-Generalsekretaer, zum bilateralen Gespraech im Auswaertigen Amt in Berlin, 09.11.2023

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson participates in a ministerial meeting with Bahraini Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir, and UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on July 12, 2017.

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