Hillary Clinton's handshake diplomacy – in pictures

Clinton and Barack Obama share a joke Photograph: Joshua Roberts/Reuters

With Burma's deputy foreign minister Myo Myint (right) in Naypyidaw Photograph: Reuters

Enjoying a Canadian maple taffy with former UK foreign secretary David Miliband in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada Photograph: Michael Reynolds/EPA

With Burma's president, Thein Sein (right), and his wife, Khin Khin Win (left), in Naypyidaw Photograph: Reuters

With Aung San Suu Kyi in Rangoon Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images

With Middle East envoy Tony Blair for a joint statement on peace talks in the East Room of the White House Photograph: Jason Reed/Reuters

A victory wave as she walks through Tahrir Square, Cairo Photograph: Reuters

With German chancellor Angela Merkel at a conference on Afghanistan in Bonn Photograph: Ina Fassbender/Reuters

Walking with UK foreign secretary William Hague in Downing Street Photograph: Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images

Discussions with Afghan president Hamid Karzai Photograph: Patrik Stollarz/AFP/Getty Images

With Lithuanian president Dalia Grybauskaite Photograph: Petras Malukas/AFP/Getty Images

Meeting the Australian prime minister Julia Gillard during annual Australia-US ministerial consultations at the Hyatt hotel, Perth Photograph: Paul Kane/Getty Images

Old friends meet … With Cherie Blair, the wife of former British PM Tony Blair, at a state department event to discuss international support for increasing women's access to mobile technology Photograph: Jason Reed/Reuters

With Luxembourg's foreign minister Jean Asselborn in Brussels Photograph: Olivier Hoslet/EPA

With William Hague (left) and the Czech foreign minister Karel Schwarzenberg Photograph: Thierry Charlier/AFP/Getty Images

A North Korean soldier looks through a window Clinton while she visits the UN truce village that sits on the border of the DMZ in Panmunjon, South Korea Photograph: Mark Wilson/AP

With Spain's foreign minister Trinidad Jimenez Garcia-Herrera in Bonn Photograph: Martin Meissner/AP

Listening to a live translation during a signing ceremony for a memorandum of understanding for US support of HIV/Aids programmes in Vietnam Photograph: EPA

A fond embrace from the French president Nicolas Sarkozy at the Élysée Palace in Paris Photograph: Horacio Villalobos/EPA

Walking from her C-17 military transport aircraft upon her arrival in Tripoli, Libya Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters

Visiting Nelson Mandela at his home in Qunu, South Africa Photograph: Reuters

With the Chinese premier Hu Jintao at a US-China summit at the Diaoyutai guesthouse in Beijing Photograph: Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images

Arriving in Tunis Photograph: Jason Reed/Reuters

Meeting the Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika Photograph: Mohamed Kadri/Corbis

Clinton smiles as she is greeted by Northern Ireland's first minister Peter Robinson (centre) and deputy first minister Martin McGuinness Photograph: Rex Features

Clinton waves farewell at Andrews Air Force base in Maryland Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images