EVENT:
Please join us on Please join us on Friday June 16, for an online press briefing with Gabriel Escobar, Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, who will discuss recent events in Serbia and Kosovo. He will take questions from participating journalists.
The briefing is on-the-record and will be conducted in English. URL and Dial-in info will be provided upon rsvp.
BIO:
Gabriel Escobar is the Deputy Assistant Secretary overseeing policy towards the countries of the Western Balkans and the Office of Press and Public Diplomacy. Previously, he served as the Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy Belgrade. His leadership positions in the Department of State include Economic Minister Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Coordinator for Cuban Affairs in the Department of State’s Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs from 20172018, the Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in La Paz, Bolivia 2014-2017, Consul General at the U.S. Consulate General in Peshawar, Pakistan 2013-2014, and Team Leader of the U.S. Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kirkuk, Iraq 2009-2010.
His full bio can be found here.
LOGISTICS:
- Participants should join the briefing 5 minutes early.
- DAS Escobar will give brief opening remarks and then the question-and-answer session will begin.
- If you join via the Zoom application or URL, you may submit your questions by clicking on the “questions and answers” tab and typing in your question. If you join telephonically, you can enter the questions queue by pressing “*” and “9” at any time. Questions may be also submitted in advance via the Eventbrite RSVP page or via e-mail to TheBrusselsHub@state.gov
- Participants using the Zoom app or URL can “up-vote” one another’s questions in the “questions and answers” tab by clicking the “like” button to the right of that question.
- If you experience technical difficulties during the call, you may email TheBrusselsHub@state.gov to alert the moderator to any issues.
