Brian Yee

The United States is present in the Western Balkans region and will pay attention to this region in the future. This was stated by the US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Hoyt Brian Yee, who will soon take up the post of US Ambassador to Macedonian capital Skopje, reports sega.

Senior US official Hoyt Brian Yee will be the new US ambassador to FYROM (Macedonia), the US State Department has confirmed for Jazeera.

He will replace Jess Baily, who was appointed as US ambassador in Skopje in December 2014.

Academician Dusan Teodorovic has taken to Twitter to send a message to Russia's ambassador in Belgrade, saying he should "no longer help us."

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said late Monday his conversation with US official Hoyt Brian Yee had not been easy but that his job was to protect Serbia's interests.

Yee said the US supported the "territorial integrity of the independent state of Kosovo" and his message was we should not "interfere" in that territorial integrity, Vucic said on a Pink TV talk show.

BELGRADE - US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Hoyt Brian Yee has had an open and positive conversation with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, US Ambassador to Belgrade Kyle Scott said Wednesday, adding Yee had said Serbia should have good relations with Russia but also be a "hundred percent" committed to its goal of EU accession.

MOSCOW - No one can hinder Belgrade from developing cooperation with Russia on a mutually beneficial basis, the Russian foreign ministry said in a comment on statements made in Belgrade by US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Hoyt Brian Yee.

BELGRADE - Serbia must remain firmly committed to reforms in order to become an EU member state in the near future, Serbian PM Ana Brnabic and US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Hoyt Brian Yee agreed at a meeting Tuesday.

BELGRADE - Serbia's policy is very clear - it is a policy of EU accession, regardless of what anyone's perception of that is, Serbian Deputy PM Zorana Mihajlovic said after meeting with US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Hoyt Brian Yee on Tuesday.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic will in the coming days communicate the answers he gave to objections by US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Hoyt Brian Yee during their meeting on Tuesday, the government press office said in a statement.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian team for EU accession talks Tanja Miscevic says a statement made by US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Hoyt Brian Yee in Belgrade Monday had been misinterpreted and taken out of context.