O’Brien discusses strategies with Lajcak, Escobar

“Important discussions with Deputy Assistant Secretary Gabriel Escobar and EUSR Miroslav Lajcak. We coordinated strategies for moving Kosovo and Serbia forward in the EU-facilitated Dialogue. U.S. strongly supports the Dialogue as the path to peaceful, productive relations,” O’Brien wrote in an X post after the meeting in Washington.

Lajcak, the EU Special Representative for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, is on a visit to the US capital to meet with his US counterpart Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Escobar.

Lajcak wrote in a separate X post that they discussed the way ahead in the Dialogue and other regional issues in the Western Balkans. “We reconfirmed our excellent EU-US cooperation,” the post said.

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— Miroslav Lajčák (@MiroslavLajcak) May 8, 2024

A pleasure to meet with @StateEUR Jim O’Brien and Deputy Assistant Secretary Escobar in Washington today to discuss the way ahead in the Dialogue and other regional issues in the Western Balkans. We reconfirmed our excellent 🇪🇺🇺🇸 cooperation. https://t.co/LIYfkYVkjn