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The Pavlovic Today’s exclusive interview with Deputy Assistant Secretary Gabriel Escobar overseeing the US policy towards the countries of the Western Balkans at the State Department, drew millions of global readers and is now holding a record as our most widely read interview across the United States and internationally.
In the interview, Secretary Blinken’s top man for the Western Balkans revealed the details of the French-German plan for Serbia-Kosovo normalization of relations.
Escobar talked about how Russia is seeking to cause havoc in the Western Balkans, the NATO member states North Macedonia, Montenegro, and Albania. Escobar also revealed why there were times in his career when he thought that journalism he saw in the Western Balkans “wasn’t actually journalism.”
Gabriel Escobar Exclusive Interview: The view of the Western Balkans from inside the State Department
In an exclusive, wide-ranging interview for The Pavlovic Today, US Deputy Assistant Secretary Gabriel Escobar offers a view of the Western Balkans from inside the State Department. Escobar speaks about the Serbia-Kosovo normalization of relations, Russia’s “malign influence” in the region and the US vision for the Western Balkans.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
President Biden is coming back today from Camp David. Biden’s Monday will revolve around the preparations for tomorrow’s State of The Union address. In his SOTU address, Biden will highlight the legislative record in the last Congress and call on the Republicans to embrace bipartisanship.
Jill Biden appeared last night at the Grammys. Host Trevor Noah, who introduced the First Lady, described her as “the only person in the world who knows which of tonight’s songs the President’s sings in the shower.”She presented two awards – the Song of the Year and the new award “Best Song for Social Change.”
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Across the pond, former British PM Liz Truss appears to suffer from political amnesia. Truss penned a 4000-word article in the Sunday Telegraph blaming the Labour, Joe Biden, and IMF for her epic downfall. But that’s not what happened. Liz Truss brought Liz Truss down. Everything else can be filed under historical revisionism.
Ksenija Pavlovic Mcateer: Liz Truss only has herself to blame for the epic fail as Prime Minster
Liz Truss’s historical revisionism in the Sunday Telegraph is entertaining. But let me remind her. It was not the Labour who brought her down.
A 7.8 magnitude earthquake has struck south-east Turkey and Syria.Hundreds of people are feared dead. President Biden has “directed USAID and other federal government partners to assess US response options to help those most affected” according to NSA Jake Sullivan.
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