Scenes from the NATO leaders summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, on July 11, 2023.
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IMAGE: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, his wife Olena Zelenska, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda and his wife Diana Nausediene attend a ceremony during which an Ukrainian flag from the frontline of the war with Russia was delivered by activists on the sidelines of the NATO leaders summit. Photograph: Kacper Pempel/Reuters
IMAGE: France's President Emmanuel Macron with Zelenskyy as they prepare to pose for a group photograph ahead of the dinner during the NATO summit. Photograph: Ludovic Marin/Pool via Reuters
IMAGE: NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg welcomes US President Joe Biden at the summit. Photograph: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Pool/Reuters
IMAGE: Biden meets with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan. Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
IMAGE: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Biden share a laugh. Photograph: Kacper Pempel/Reuters
IMAGE: Stoltenberg gestures to Biden. Photograph: Kacper Pempel/Reuters
IMAGE: Sunak, Biden and Stoltenberg applaud. Photograph: Kacper Pempel/Reuters
IMAGE: Biden, Stoltenberg and Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda take their seats. Photograph: Kacper Pempel/Reuters
IMAGE: A Turkish interpreter translates for Erdogan what Sunak said -- or is it the other way around? Photograph: Kacper Pempel/Reuters
IMAGE: Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis arrive at the summit. Photograph: Kacper Pempel/Reuters
IMAGE: Stoltenberg, Erdogan, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and Turkish Defense Minister Yasar Guler attend a meeting on the eve of the NATO summit.
Turkey has opposed Sweden's membership of NATO. Photograph: Yves Herman/Pool/Reuters
IMAGE: Ukraine's Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov speaks to the media as he arrives at the summit. Photograph: Ints Kalnins/Reuters
IMAGE: Stoltenberg, Biden, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda, Sunak, Trudeau, Erdogan, other NATO leaders at the group photograph, ahead of the summit. Photograph: Yves Herman/Reuters
IMAGE: People holding Ukrainian flags wait for a concert on the sidelines of the summit. Photograph: Kacper Pempel/Reuters
Photographs curated by Manisha Kotian/Rediff.com
Feature Presentation: Ashish Narsale/Rediff.com
