During the opening reception of Serbia’s brand new embassy in Washington, D.C., Gabriel Escobar of the State Department boasted to the crowd, which included Serbian first lady Tamara Vucic and Ambassador Marko Duric, that relations between the Balkan nation and the United States have “never been better.” The comment from Escobar, the deputy assistant secretary for the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, comes amid the Biden administration‘s public support for the European Union‘s facilitation of relations between Kosovo and Serbia.