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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 and Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry sit with their respective advisers on October 30, 2015, at the Hotel Imperial in Vienna, Austria, before a bilateral meeting preceding a group discussion about ways to stop the fighting in Syria.

Office of the Administrator (Stephen L. Johnson) - Administrator Stephen L. Johnson's Official Trip to China (The Fifth China-U.S. Strategic Economic Dialogue) , Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, joined by United Nations Special Representative for Libya Martin Kobler, listens as Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni addresses reporters after meeting with a group of Libyans who believe in a government of national unity during a multinational meeting focused on the country's future held on December 13, 2015 at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rome, Italy.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton meets with Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Tsvetan Tsvetanov, Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Simeon Dyankov, and Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nickolay Mladenov, at the Council of Ministers in Sofia, Bulgaria, on February 5, 2012. Also pictured in the photo: U.S. Ambassador to Bulgaria James Warlick, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Philip Gordon, Senior Advisor Philippe Reines, and Spokesperson Victoria Nuland.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sits with fellow Foreign Ministers and Political Directors from the European Union, P5+1 nations - the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Russia, and China, as well as Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif and his advisers on April 2, 2015, in Lausanne, Switzerland, following negotiations about the future of their country�s nuclear program.

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris receive the weekly COVID-19 briefing Thursday, March 18, 2021, in the Oval Office of the White House. Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz) *This image has been altered for security reasons.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken participates in a D-ISIS Ministerial Opening Session, in Rome, Italy on June 28, 2021.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken participates in a youth moderated discussion on democracy and human rights, in Paris, France on June 25, 2021.

Deputy Secretary of State Antony "Tony" Blinken participates in the Strategic Track Plenary Session during the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) / Consultation on People-to-People Exchange (CPE) at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on June 24, 2015.

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

San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 11, 2013 CAD Director Alejandro De La Campa, Administrator Fugate; Puerto Rico Lt. Governor and staff during meeting.. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, joined by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy, shakes hands with Chinese Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection Zhai Qing before a bilateral meeting at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Kigali, Rwanda, on October 14, 2016, amid negotiations about amending the Montreal ozone layer protection protocol.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry poses with the Foreign Ministers of Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania - Edgar Rinkevies, Marina Kaljurand, and Linas Linkevicius - for a meeting after they joined their colleagues in signing an Accession Protocol to continue Montenegro's admission to the North American Treaty Organization amid the biannual Foreign Ministerial Meetings on May 19, 2016, at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi in Jakarta, Indonesia, on December 14, 2021.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry participates in a meeting of the Pacific Islands Forum in New York City on September 27, 2013.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with representative's of the Department's Mosaic affinity group, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on May 28, 2021.

Bureau of Industry and Security - Indian Hi Tech Forum

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry shakes hands with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in Cairo on July 21, 2014, before they sit down to talk about their mutual efforts to support a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas amid conflict in Gaza.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken delivers a speech on �The United States and Africa: Building a 21st Century Partnership�, in Abuja, Nigeria on November 18, 2021.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Swiss President and Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis in Geneva, Switzerland, on January 21, 2022.

Meeting and press conference in Atlanta, Georgia concerning inter-state water issues arising from the drought affecting the southeastern U.S., with Secretary Dirk Kempthorne joining Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue and Lieutenant Governor Casey Cagle, Georgia Senators Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson, White House Council on Environmental Quality Chairman James Connaughton, and the Commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Lieutenant General Robert Van Antwerp, among other officials

U.S. and E.U. officials met with their Iranian counterparts in the Blue Salon at the Palais Coburg at midday on July 13, 2015, as they zeroed in on a deal.

With U.S. Assistant Secretary and Spokesperson John Kirby and his Russian counterpart looking on, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov address reporters at a joint news conference at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on March 24, 2016.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with Dutch Parliamentarians at the Governors Room in The Hague, the Netherlands on June 3, 2019.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov on the margins of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Ministerial Council in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 2, 2021.

India Artemis Accords Signing. From left; U.S. Department of State, Deputy Assistant Secretary for India, Nancy Jackson, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, Indian Ambassador Taranjit Sandhu, and Indian Space Research Organization, Space Counsellor, Krunal Joshi, talk after the signing of the Artemis Accords, Wednesday, June 21, 2023, at the Willard InterContinental Hotel in Washington. India is the 27th country to sign the Artemis Accords, which establish a practical set of principles to guide space exploration cooperation among nations participating in NASAs Artemis program.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken holds a joint press availability with Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr. Ahmed Nasser Al-Mohammed Al-Sabah, in Kuwait City, Kuwait on July 29, 2021.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo flanked by Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback, delivers remarks on the release of the 2017 International Religious Freedom Report, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on May 29, 2018.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo joins President Donald J. Trump in Meetings with Vietnamese President Nguy_n Ph� Tr_ng in Hanoi, Vietnam, on February 27, 2019.

Program, in Benjamin Franklin Room, offering "Salute to Abolitionists Working to End Modern Slavery." Among officials delivering remarks were: Secretary Condoleezza Rice; Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs, Paula Dobriansky; Ambassador at Large and Director of State's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, John Miller; Virginia Congressman Frank Wolf; and New Jersey Congressman Chris Smith.

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

Office of the Secretary - SECRETARY DONALD EVANS TRIP TO RUSSIA (9-21-05 TO 9-23-05)

Irina Bokova, Director General for UNESCO, and Ambassador David Killion, U.S. Permanent Representative to UNESCO, call on a journalist who has a question at a luncheon at the Foreign Press Center, as a part of the 2011 World Press Freedom Day Global Conference in Washington, D.C., on May 3, 2011.

Deputy Secretary of State John J. Sullivan meets with El Salvador's Foreign Minister Hugo Roger Mart�nez, on the margins of the 47th General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Cancun, Mexico, on June 20, 2017.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio, in Rome, Italy, on October 30, 2021.

NASA and USDA Sign Memorandum of Understanding. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson gives remarks prior to signing a memorandum of understanding between NASA and USDA, Wednesday, June 21, 2023, at the USDAs Jamie L. Whitten Building in Washington. The agreement strengthens the collaboration between the two agencies, including efforts to improve agricultural and Earth science research, technology, and agricultural management, as well as the application of science data and models to agricultural decision making.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken participates in a seminar with U.S. ambassadors at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on December 8, 2021.

Office of the Secretary - Secretary Carlos Gutierrez with Irish Minister for Enterprise Michael Martin

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.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Icelandic President Gudni Th. Johannesson in Reykjavik, Iceland, on May 18, 2021.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken participates in the Berlin II Conference on Libya, in Berlin, Germany on June 23, 2021.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sits with Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal of Saudi Arabia and fellow members of the regional Gulf Cooperation Council before a meeting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on March 5, 2015.

Department Spokesperson Ned Price holds the Daily Press Briefing at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on July 14, 2021.

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary's Gutierrez's Trip from Brussels, Chongging China, Cairo and Beijing

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, flanked by U.S. Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford and Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman, sits across from Syrian Opposition Coalition President Ahmed al-Jarba and his team before a meeting in Paris, France, on January 13, 2014.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Kenyan Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs Ambassador Raychelle Omamo, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on July 16, 2021.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III co-host the 2023 U.S.-Japan Security Consultative Committee meeting with Japanese Foreign Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa and Japanese Defense Minister Hamada Yasukazu, at the Department of State. Washington, D.C., Jan 11, 2023.

Secretary Blinken attends a working lunch with Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso and Foreign Minister Mauricio Montalvo, in Quito, Ecuador, on October 19, 2021.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry shakes hands with Vice President Dr. Van Thuyen of Ho Chi Minh University of Technology and Education in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on January 13, 2017, before the Secretary delivered a speech about U.S.-Vietnamese relations during his final trip abroad.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Danish Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod, in Copenhagen, Denmark on May 17, 2021.

Office of the Secretary - JCCT BILATERAL

Annalena Baerbock (Alliance 90/The Greens), Federal Foreign Minister, photographed during a joint press conference with Ayman Safadi (not pictured), Foreign Minister of Jordan, after a joint meeting in Berlin, 16 April 2024 / Photographed on behalf of the Federal Foreign Office

Deputy Secretary of State Antony "Tony" Blinken is interviewed by Ms. Oh Hae-jung, a journalist from Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC), in Seoul, South Korea, on February 10, 2015.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Dominican Republic Foreign Minister Roberto Alvarez at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on September 28, 2021.

Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economic Affairs Mike Froman talks with Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano in the Oval Office, Sept. 16, 2009.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken participates in a Quad meeting with_ with Emirati Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed, Indian Foreign Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar, and Israeli Foreign Minister_and Alternate Prime Minister Yair_Lapid at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on October 18, 2021.

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.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken participates in a joint press availability with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba in Kyiv, Ukraine, on January 19, 2022.

Acting Assistant Secretary of State Mike Hammer responds to #AskState questions during the U.S. Department of State's first Twitter Briefing in Spanish in Washington, D.C., on March 1, 2012.

Office of the Administrator (Stephen L. Johnson) - Administrator Stephen L. Johnson's Official Trip to China (The Fifth China-U.S. Strategic Economic Dialogue) , Environmental Protection Agency

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.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi in Jakarta, Indonesia, on December 14, 2021.

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Central America Free Trade Agreement Trade Mission to El Salvador (Fusal, Amnet, Interiors, Ford Interview, Amcham Lunch, Bilat with Economy)

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with faculty and alumni of the Fulbright School in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on December 14, 2013.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo delivers a speech on "The U.S. in Asia: Economic Engagement for Good" in Bangkok, Thailand on August 2, 2019.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken participates in a youth moderated discussion on democracy and human rights, in Paris, France on June 25, 2021.

Office of the Deputy Secretary - DEPUTY SECRETARY SAMUEL BODMAN MEETING WITH ETHIOPIAN PRIME MINISTER MELES ZENWAI

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - North American Competitiveness Council - US, Canada and Mexico

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Partnership for Prosperity Good Partner Award

Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall, right, exchanges gifts with Hideki Tsuchimoto, commissioner of the Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Agency, Japanese Ministry of Defense, after a meeting at the Pentagon, Arlington, Va., Sept. 9, 2022.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken holds a press availability, in Brussels, Belgium on March 24, 2021.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken holds a meet and greet with U.S. Mission India, in New Delhi, India on July 28, 2021.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken delivers a speech on �The United States and Africa: Building a 21st Century Partnership�, in Abuja, Nigeria on November 18, 2021.

With Ambassador Tom Shannon and his wife, Guisela Shannon, looking, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry signs the appointment papers for Ambassador to Shannon to become the new Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on April 19, 2016.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with personnel of U.S. Mission Australia in Sydney, Australia, on August 5, 2019.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken holds a joint press availability with German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock in Berlin, Germany, on January 20, 2022.

Office of the Secretary - JCCT BILATERAL

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.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry takes the oath to become a member of the Advisory Council to the Board of Governors of the American National Red Cross, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on February 3, 2014.

International Trade Administration - Swearing-In Sarah Ellerman

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba hold a joint press availability at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on November 10, 2021.

Mike Leavitt, Chinese Signing , Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, with Chief of Staff Margaret Peterlin and Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Francisco Palmieri, hosts a working breakfast for Mexican Foreign Secretary Luis Videgaray Caso and Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on May 31, 2017. Also pictured is Canadian Ambassador to the U.S. David MacNaughton.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken participates in a joint press availability with Fijian Acting Prime Minister Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum in Nadi, Fiji, on February 12, 2022.

Office of the Secretary - EARTH OBSERVATION SUMMIT

Secretary Michael R. Pompeo attends a working lunch with Chilean Foreign Minister Roberto Ampuero, in Santiago, Chile on April 12, 2019

Department officials, including Deputy Secretary Richard Armitage, Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs Roger Noriega, Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Barbara Pope, and Department Hispanic Recruitment Coordinator Harvey Issa, speaking to group of Hispanic high school students from Washington, D.C., Virginia, and Maryland participating in Department's inaugural Latino job shadowing day

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry works on his remarks on December 3, 2015, during the Plenary session of the 22nd OSCE Ministerial Council meeting in Belgrade, Serbia.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo holds a joint press conference with Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg, in Vienna, Austria, on August 14, 2020.

Office of the Secretary - Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Press Conference Unions Training Grant

Deputy Secretary of State John J. Sullivan meets with Japanese Vice Minister Takeo Akiba in Tokyo, Japan, on November 13, 2018.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken holds a meet and greet with employees from U.S. Embassy Vilnius and U.S. Embassy Minsk in Vilnius, Lithuania, on March 7. 2022.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken tours the Kuwaiti National Assembly and meets with Speaker of the Kuwaiti National Assembly Marzouq Ali Mohammed Al-Ghanim in Kuwait City, Kuwait on July 29, 2021.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken delivers remarks at a cafeteria renaming ceremony at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on February 1, 2022.

Speakers address panelists at a breakout session at the Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom at the U.S. Department of State in Washington D.C. on July 17, 2019.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr. Ahmed Nasser Al-Mohammed Al-Sabah, in Kuwait City, Kuwait on July 29, 2021.

Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman participates in the India Ideas Summit with Foreign Secretary Shringla in New Delhi, India, on October 6, 2021.

Office of Internal Affairs - Asian Development Bank (ADB) Letter of Intent , Environmental Protection Agency

North Atlantic Treaty Organization Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg prepares to gavel to order a NATO-Ukraine Commission Meeting - attended by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry - amid a NATO Ministerial meeting on December 2, 2015, at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium.

Secretary of State's 2006 Award for Corporate Excellence (ACE) ceremony and reception, Benjamin Franklin Room, with Secretary Condoleezza Rice hosting and Under Secretary for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs Josette Shiner, Assistant Secretary for Economic and Business Affairs Daniel Sullivan, and Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs Thomas Shannon, Jr. among the other Department speakers. Corporations honored included Sambazon for its operations in Brazil, General Motors for its operations in Colombia, and Goldman Sachs for its operations in Chile.

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