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From 'grass', 'flirting' with the government to campaigns against the opposition, why will Yuri Kim be remembered
After more than three years, Yuri Kim gave her farewell speech today as US ambassador to Albania.
In her speech to the media, Kim said that she is grateful that she had the opportunity to get to know our country.
She added that although a lot of progress has been made in many areas, corruption still remains a problem for the country, where as an example she mentioned the right to property and the opportunity for Europeans to develop their businesses in Albania.
Such statements have been repeatedly brought to attention by Kim. However, after leaving, Kim will be long remembered for some moments that will not leave a bad taste for Albanians.
She will be remembered, whenever it is written about the US ambassadors in Albania, her role, influence and silhouette in Albanian politics, as the diplomat who became enmity with the opposition and united with the government, in the years when the latter owned almost 100 percent of power in the country.
In November 2021, the woman who entered the history of this country as the one who threatened half of the electorate with eating grass, blatantly intervened in the battle between the two DPs.
As soon as Sali Berisha confirmed that he is the majority within the Democratic Party by submitting 4,200 signatures for the meeting of the National Assembly of Democrats, Kim gave an interview on Top Channel stating: "We recognize Lulzim Basha as president and ... we will not have relations with the Democratic Party if Berisha wins". Later she insisted: "we don't shake Sali Berisha's hand and we don't even set foot in his office if he was elected head of the DP".
As if this was not enough, before the Assembly on December 11, she posed on social media with a photo full of subtext. She appeared on her account with Hemingway's novel: "For Whom the Bell Tolls", which the pro-Rama media interpreted with its true meaning.
This meddling in the affairs of a party was then extended to the eve of the March 6, 2022 local by-elections.
Kim i pyeti publikisht kandidatët e Shtëpisë së Lirisë se si mund të marrin pjesë në një fushatë, kur sponsorizohen nga Berisha, të cilin Shtetet e Bashkuara i kanë ndaluar hyrjen në vendin e tyre, pasi e akuzojnë për korrupsion dhe minim të demokracisë.
Kim-demokratëve: Mos hani bar!
Në verën e 2021-shit, ambasadorja përdori sloganin e famshëm propagandistik të kohës së Komunizmit për të nënkuptuar nevojën e shkëputjes së Partisë Demokratike në opozitë nga interesat e Berishës, shpallur i padëshirueshëm për “korrupsion madhor” nga Departamenti i Shtetit. Berisha e konsideroi fyese dhe albanofobike.
Dekada më parë, regjimi komunist në Shqipëri i mësoi shqiptarëve se ata duhej të ishin gati të hanin edhe thjesht bar me qëllim që Partia e Punës të ruante pushtetin e saj.
Shprehja ishte: “Populli shqiptar han bar dhe dorën nuk ia shtrin armikut”, ndaj një shprehje e tij nuk ka se si të tingëllojë veçse absurde sot: armiku të cilit i referohej diktatori, ishte bota demokratike, para së gjithash, Shtetet e Bashkuara të Amerikës.
Dhe në atë që Yuri Kim e quan ironi historike, ajo sugjeron që Partia Demokratike, forca e parë anti-komuniste në vend, “të mos hajë bar” për interesat e një njeriu të vetëm.
“Do të ishte një ironi historike por edhe një tragjedi për vendin, jo vetëm për partinë, nëse partia do të hante bar për hir të interesave personale të një njeriu,” deklaronte Yuri Kim, një referencë jo shumë e fshehtë për Sali Berishën, të cilit ndjekësit i referohen si “lideri historik”.
Arvizu “godet” Yuri Kim
Ish ambasadori i SHBA-ve në Tiranë, Alexander Arvizu, ka dhënë një intervistë për televizionin Euroneës në Shqipëri kritikoi deklaratat e Kim, e cila ka kërkuar vazhdimisht largimin e Sali Berishës nga politika.
Arvizu nënvizoi disa herë se shqiptarët duhet të trajtohen me respekt dhe se kanë të drejtë të zgjedhin udhëheqësit e tyre.
“Këto lloj vendimesh, se kush është në opozitë dhe kush duhet të jetë në qeveri, i takon shqiptarëve dhe jo Ëashingtonit apo Brukselit”, deklaroi ish ambasadori.
Qëndrimet ndaj Ramës dhe Metës, me dy standarde
Një vit më parë Kim mbrojti ish shefin e SPAK, Arben Krajën ndaj sulmeve që i bëri Ilir Meta, pasi mori vesh se po hetohej nga prokuroria e posaçme.
Si gjithmonë, djalli fshihet në detaje. Nëse shohim si ambasadorja ka reaguar ndaj Ramës dhe mënyrës si i’u kundërvu Metës, ndryshimi është nata me ditën.
Pasi kryeministri udhëzoi SPAK-un, se duhej të hetonte ish presidentin, ambasadorja, ka kërkuar disa herë falje se po tejkalonte gjuhën diplomatike, duke u justifikuar se po fliste troç, tha se modeli i drejtësisë nuk është ai i urdhërimit të prokurorëve nga pushteti politik.
Por kur Meta u “vetëmbrojt” ndaj një SPAK-u që po zbatonte fiks urdhrat që Rama, fjalori i ambasadores ishte disa fish më i ashpër.
Ajo, pa u justifikuar për tejkalimin e gjuhës diplomatike, nxitoi të thotë se ‘pandëshkueshmëria po merr fund”, se “nuk ka më të paprekshëm”, se “reforma në drejtësi po jep gjithnjë e më shumë rezultate”, duke na dëshmuar një aplikim të standardeve të dyfishta.
Për këtë, analistët e kanë komentuar shpesh Kim si ambasadoren më të anshme në vend që prej periudhës së Rajersonit.
Cila do të jetë trashëgimia e saj?
In fact, it is the mark of someone who did not know how to interpret American politics in the most pro-American country in the world. If many other countries hold American-skepticism as an emblem of honor, it does not happen in Albania.
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