Press Releases
Press Briefing by U.S. Senator Jim Webb
Released in Phnom Penh, August 17, 2009
The U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh is pleased to announce that U.S. Senator Jim Webb is visiting Cambodia on August 18, 2009 as part of an official tour to five countries in the region.
During his visit to Cambodia, Senator Webb, will meet with senior Cambodian government officials.
Senator Jim Webb will be available for a press briefing with members of the media on Tuesday, August 18, 2009, at 3:25 P.M. at the U.S. Ambassador’s Residence.
Webb has enjoyed a continuous personal involvement in Asian and Pacific affairs that long predates his time in the Senate. In addition to his more recent visits as a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Webb has worked and traveled throughout this vast region, from Micronesia to Burma, for nearly four decades, as a Marine Corps officer, a defense planner, a journalist, a novelist, a Department of Defense executive, and as a business consultant.
Webb served as an infantry Marine in Vietnam, and later as Assistant Secretary of Defense and Secretary of the Navy in the Pentagon. He also served as an Asia-Pacific regional military planner in Guam, has written extensively on local, national and international issues in Japan, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines, and in the 1990's worked as a consultant for companies wishing to do business in Vietnam. He has served on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee since joining the U.S. Senate in January 2007.
As chairman of the East Asia and Pacific Affairs Subcommittee, Webb oversees U.S. relations with countries in East Asia, Southeast Asia, the Pacific Rim, and Oceana. The subcommittee also oversees regional organizations such as the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC).
For additional information, please contact the Embassy's Public Affairs Section by telephone at 023-728-258 or by e-mail at ChreaV@state.gov.
