Today, Yuri Kim has officially closed her mission in Albania and Prime Minister Edi Rama did not spare the thanks for the former ambassador.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, he said that another diplomat “is expected to fall into Albania’s sweet trap”.<\/p>\n
Full statement:<\/p>\n
She stayed the same as all the other ambassadors, but her stay lasted longer than all the others put together. Because unlike all the others, she didn’t spend a day without appearing, in all the screens, frowning even when she smiled, like on Instagram, smiling even when the landscapes from Albania were cloudy, like through tweets, where sweetly serious and where seriously bitter, from the Twitter turret; as in the streets of political life in Tirana, where with binoculars and a rifle in military exercises, where with a sword in the belt at the meetings of the justice bodies, where with tears in the eyes for the victims of the Invisible Enemy, where with poison on the tongue for the enemies of Reform in Justice, where with Turkish delight and brandy for the multi-party electoral reform commission; sometimes as a knight of the almighty, sometimes as a shadow of the power and sometimes as a babysitter of the opponents of the power, both grateful for the friendship between the peoples, and encouraging for the achievements of the people, and threatening for those elected by the people, sometimes annoyed by accusations that supports the government, sometimes irritated by claims that it is supporting the opposition, often happy about the dissatisfaction of all parties, but never in one country; she went on the tops of the mountains and on the shores of the seas, to give well-understood messages, she stayed among men in suits to imply that the suit does not necessarily make you a man, also among the children in Tropoja to underline that America does not know you as a man, she sit among the old women in Dh\u00ebrmi, to show that no man is indispensable.<\/p>\n
Yuri Kim left while leaving behind, friends and enemies, who loved or hated her, while closer to the truth is the fact that no one could love her without hating her and no one could hate her without loving her even once. Among all those who have sat in the office of the American ambassador to Albania, she was the most American among the Albanians and the most Albanian among the Americans. Who more and who less, the ambassadors of the superpower in our country have fallen into the trap of the admiring sweetness of Albania, where America is seen as the Great Bear in the sky and an American ambassador is treated wherever goes, like a friend fallen from the sky, and as a result, she falls inside and feels like a God on earth, who must live and act in the name of the Albanian people, become not only the spokesperson for their problems, but also the warrior who fights injustices on his behalf, whips the powerful, strikes the wicked, humiliates the incorrigible, a kind of supreme judge, who breathes with the moral obligation towards the common people to contest even the decisions of the courts themselves.<\/p>\n
Terrible in appearance, but not so much in fact, because in order to properly appreciate the role of the American ambassadors, especially the ambassador who, with her special protagonist, came to us even in a dream, pushed me to write these lines as well , the question must be asked, “Would it be better if they were not at all or if, instead of plunging headlong into the whirlwind of the country’s political and institutional life, Yuri stood like a sphinx on the gentle hill of Elbasan Street?\u201d\u2026. I say no, definitely not. On the contrary. But that would be a long article, for which there is no place here.<\/p>\n
So at the end of her mission, I had no choice but to hand over to Ambassador Yuri Kim, the Great Star of Public Appreciation, for how much she loved Albania, how much she tried to help Albania in its escape, to become a better country than it was when she came, and above all, for my conviction that this kind of America, with its hands inserted into the organism of our institutional life, has been all these years of laborious ascent from the hon the black of the communist hell in the uphill towards the light of democracy, an evil as necessary as the strength it has given to Albania and the Albanian nation in every direction, and undoubtedly as much as the strength it has given to justice in Albania to fight , finally, with the evils that until yesterday seemed eternal and without America on the side would remain so forever.<\/p>\n
Therefore, just like these perhaps diplomatically scandalous lines – yes, the truth cannot always be diplomatic when it must be said – gratitude and thanks for Ambassador Yuri Kim, are sincerely felt and thought quite freely, as the plane from Brussels is landing in Tirana, where another American ambassador is expected to soon fall into Albania’s sweet trap.<\/p>\n
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