{"id":8421,"date":"2021-03-21T12:36:36","date_gmt":"2021-03-21T12:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/website.euronews.al\/en\/?p=8421"},"modified":"2021-03-21T12:36:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T12:36:36","slug":"30th-anniversary-of-us-albania-ties-former-ambassador-donald-lu-sends-wishes-through-a-video-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/30th-anniversary-of-us-albania-ties-former-ambassador-donald-lu-sends-wishes-through-a-video-message\/","title":{"rendered":"30th anniversary of US-Albania ties, former-Ambassador Donald Lu sends wishes through a video-message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 30<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the reconciliation of diplomatic ties between Albania and the US was also commemorated by the former-US ambassador to Albania, Donald Lu.<\/p>\n<p>Through a video message shared by the US embassy in Albania, Lu stated that it has been the honor of his life to serve as US ambassador in our country and be able to contribute to the establishment of the rule of law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongratulations to all of my Albanian friends on the 30<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0anniversary of our renewed diplomatic relations. It was the honor of my life to serve as ambassador from 2015 to 2018. And during those years, we spent a lot of time working on judicial reform, corruption and the hunt for big fish,\u201d stated Mr. Lu.<\/p>\n<p data-min-tv-running=\"true\">In his video-message, Lu stated that as long as our countries exist, there will always be a special tie between the Albanian and American people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/daily-news\/2021\/03\/16\/former-us-ambassador-arvizu-to-albanian-politicians-refrain-from-conflicts-and-attacking-one-another\">Former US Ambassador Arvizu to Albanian politicians: Refrain from conflicts and attacking one another<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/politics\/2021\/03\/16\/30th-anniversary-of-us-albania-ties-ambassador-kim-us-has-contributed-1-1-billion-in-aids\">30th anniversary of US-Albania ties, Ambassador Kim: US has contributed over $1.1 Billion in aids<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/daily-news\/2020\/10\/03\/albanian-president-meta-congratulates-president-steinmeier-on-the-occasion-of-german-unity-day\">Albanian President Meta congratulates President Steinmeier on the occasion of German Unity Day<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 30th anniversary of the reconciliation of diplomatic ties between Albania and the US was also commemorated by the former-US ambassador to Albania, Donald Lu. Through a video message shared by the US embassy in Albania, Lu stated that it has been the honor of his life to serve as US ambassador in our country [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":8422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[150,151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>30th anniversary of US-Albania ties, former-Ambassador Donald Lu sends wishes through a video-message - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/30th-anniversary-of-us-albania-ties-former-ambassador-donald-lu-sends-wishes-through-a-video-message\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"30th anniversary of US-Albania ties, former-Ambassador Donald Lu sends wishes through a video-message - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The 30th anniversary of the reconciliation of diplomatic ties between Albania and the US was also commemorated by the former-US ambassador to Albania, Donald Lu. Through a video message shared by the US embassy in Albania, Lu stated that it has been the honor of his life to serve as US ambassador in our country [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/30th-anniversary-of-us-albania-ties-former-ambassador-donald-lu-sends-wishes-through-a-video-message\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/euronews.al\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-03-21T12:36:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/donald-lu.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"900\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"507\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Nen Si\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@euronewsalbania\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@euronewsalbania\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Nen Si\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/30th-anniversary-of-us-albania-ties-former-ambassador-donald-lu-sends-wishes-through-a-video-message\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/30th-anniversary-of-us-albania-ties-former-ambassador-donald-lu-sends-wishes-through-a-video-message\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Nen Si\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/444d280f35e047949b7f0bc08093608f\"},\"headline\":\"30th anniversary of US-Albania ties, former-Ambassador Donald Lu sends wishes through a video-message\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-03-21T12:36:36+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-03-21T12:36:36+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/30th-anniversary-of-us-albania-ties-former-ambassador-donald-lu-sends-wishes-through-a-video-message\/\"},\"wordCount\":204,\"commentCount\":68,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/30th-anniversary-of-us-albania-ties-former-ambassador-donald-lu-sends-wishes-through-a-video-message\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/donald-lu.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Kryesor 1\",\"Kryesoret\"],\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/30th-anniversary-of-us-albania-ties-former-ambassador-donald-lu-sends-wishes-through-a-video-message\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/30th-anniversary-of-us-albania-ties-former-ambassador-donald-lu-sends-wishes-through-a-video-message\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/30th-anniversary-of-us-albania-ties-former-ambassador-donald-lu-sends-wishes-through-a-video-message\/\",\"name\":\"30th anniversary of US-Albania ties, former-Ambassador Donald Lu sends wishes through a video-message - Euronews Albania\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/30th-anniversary-of-us-albania-ties-former-ambassador-donald-lu-sends-wishes-through-a-video-message\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/30th-anniversary-of-us-albania-ties-former-ambassador-donald-lu-sends-wishes-through-a-video-message\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/donald-lu.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-03-21T12:36:36+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-03-21T12:36:36+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/30th-anniversary-of-us-albania-ties-former-ambassador-donald-lu-sends-wishes-through-a-video-message\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/30th-anniversary-of-us-albania-ties-former-ambassador-donald-lu-sends-wishes-through-a-video-message\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/30th-anniversary-of-us-albania-ties-former-ambassador-donald-lu-sends-wishes-through-a-video-message\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/donald-lu.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/donald-lu.jpg\",\"width\":900,\"height\":507,\"caption\":\"former-US Ambassador to Albania, Donald Lu\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/30th-anniversary-of-us-albania-ties-former-ambassador-donald-lu-sends-wishes-through-a-video-message\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"30th anniversary of US-Albania ties, former-Ambassador Donald Lu sends wishes through a video-message\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/\",\"name\":\"Euronews Albania\",\"description\":\"Top stories in Albania, Kosovo and the Balkans\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Euronews Albania\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/logo-mobile-euronews-albania-1.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/logo-mobile-euronews-albania-1.png\",\"width\":280,\"height\":33,\"caption\":\"Euronews Albania\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/euronews.al\/\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/euronewsalbania\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/444d280f35e047949b7f0bc08093608f\",\"name\":\"Nen Si\",\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/author\/nensi\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"30th anniversary of US-Albania ties, former-Ambassador Donald Lu sends wishes through a video-message - Euronews Albania","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/30th-anniversary-of-us-albania-ties-former-ambassador-donald-lu-sends-wishes-through-a-video-message\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"30th anniversary of US-Albania ties, former-Ambassador Donald Lu sends wishes through a video-message - Euronews Albania","og_description":"The 30th anniversary of the reconciliation of diplomatic ties between Albania and the US was also commemorated by the former-US ambassador to Albania, Donald Lu. Through a video message shared by the US embassy in Albania, Lu stated that it has been the honor of his life to serve as US ambassador in our country [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/30th-anniversary-of-us-albania-ties-former-ambassador-donald-lu-sends-wishes-through-a-video-message\/","og_site_name":"Euronews Albania","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/euronews.al\/","article_published_time":"2021-03-21T12:36:36+00:00","og_image":[{"width":900,"height":507,"url":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/donald-lu.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Nen Si","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@euronewsalbania","twitter_site":"@euronewsalbania","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Nen Si","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/30th-anniversary-of-us-albania-ties-former-ambassador-donald-lu-sends-wishes-through-a-video-message\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/30th-anniversary-of-us-albania-ties-former-ambassador-donald-lu-sends-wishes-through-a-video-message\/"},"author":{"name":"Nen Si","@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/444d280f35e047949b7f0bc08093608f"},"headline":"30th anniversary of US-Albania ties, former-Ambassador Donald Lu sends wishes through a video-message","datePublished":"2021-03-21T12:36:36+00:00","dateModified":"2021-03-21T12:36:36+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/30th-anniversary-of-us-albania-ties-former-ambassador-donald-lu-sends-wishes-through-a-video-message\/"},"wordCount":204,"commentCount":68,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/30th-anniversary-of-us-albania-ties-former-ambassador-donald-lu-sends-wishes-through-a-video-message\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/donald-lu.jpg","keywords":["Kryesor 1","Kryesoret"],"articleSection":["News"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/30th-anniversary-of-us-albania-ties-former-ambassador-donald-lu-sends-wishes-through-a-video-message\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/30th-anniversary-of-us-albania-ties-former-ambassador-donald-lu-sends-wishes-through-a-video-message\/","url":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/30th-anniversary-of-us-albania-ties-former-ambassador-donald-lu-sends-wishes-through-a-video-message\/","name":"30th anniversary of US-Albania ties, former-Ambassador Donald Lu sends wishes through a video-message - Euronews Albania","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/30th-anniversary-of-us-albania-ties-former-ambassador-donald-lu-sends-wishes-through-a-video-message\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/30th-anniversary-of-us-albania-ties-former-ambassador-donald-lu-sends-wishes-through-a-video-message\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/donald-lu.jpg","datePublished":"2021-03-21T12:36:36+00:00","dateModified":"2021-03-21T12:36:36+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/30th-anniversary-of-us-albania-ties-former-ambassador-donald-lu-sends-wishes-through-a-video-message\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/30th-anniversary-of-us-albania-ties-former-ambassador-donald-lu-sends-wishes-through-a-video-message\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/30th-anniversary-of-us-albania-ties-former-ambassador-donald-lu-sends-wishes-through-a-video-message\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/donald-lu.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/donald-lu.jpg","width":900,"height":507,"caption":"former-US Ambassador to Albania, Donald Lu"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/30th-anniversary-of-us-albania-ties-former-ambassador-donald-lu-sends-wishes-through-a-video-message\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"30th anniversary of US-Albania ties, former-Ambassador Donald Lu sends wishes through a video-message"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/","name":"Euronews Albania","description":"Top stories in Albania, Kosovo and the Balkans","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/#organization","name":"Euronews Albania","url":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/logo-mobile-euronews-albania-1.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/logo-mobile-euronews-albania-1.png","width":280,"height":33,"caption":"Euronews Albania"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/euronews.al\/","https:\/\/x.com\/euronewsalbania"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/444d280f35e047949b7f0bc08093608f","name":"Nen Si","sameAs":["http:\/\/euronews.al\/en"],"url":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/author\/nensi\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8421"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}