Henry Kissinger pictured in 1976, in France. The former US secretary of state, a key figure of 20th century American diplomacy, died on November 29, at the age of 100. AFP
US president Richard Nixon with Mr Kissinger in 1973, in Washington. AFP
Mr Kissinger meets Chinese president Mao Zedong in 1973, in Beijing. AFP
Mr Kissinger with Le Duc Tho, leader of North Vietnamese delegation, after signing a ceasefire agreement in the Vietnam War, in January 1973, in Paris. AFP
Henry Kissinger faces the press in Salzburg, Austria, in 1974. AP
Mr Kissinger sits next to US president Gerald Ford during discussions with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and other top officials, on a Russian train headed for Vladivostok, eastern Russia, in 1974. Reuters
Future British prime minister Margaret Thatcher with Mr Kissinger in Washington, in 1975. AP
Mikhail Gorbachev meets Mr Kissinger in Moscow in 1991, on the first working day of the last Soviet leader's new institution. AFP
US president Bill Clinton and Mr Kissinger share a joke at a national policy conference in Washington, in 1995. AP
Mr Kissinger presents Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed with the Unesco Felix Houphouet-Boigny Peace Prize, in Paris, in 1999. AFP
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets Mr Kissinger in the Kremlin, in 2001. AFP
Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh with Mr Kissinger in New Delhi, in 2004. AFP
Former US secretary of state George Shultz pushes away protesters shouting 'Arrest Henry Kissinger for war crimes', as Mr Kissinger looks on, in Washington, in 2015. AFP
Chinese president Jiang Zemin with Mr Kissinger in New York, in 1995. Reuters