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Yuri Kim's term ends, here is who is expected to be the new American ambassador in Tirana

2022-12-08 17:38:25Fokus SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Yuri Kim's term ends, here is who is expected to be the new American
Yuri Kim

The Foreign Ministry announces that they have started the procedures for the replacement of the ambassador of the United States in Tirana, Yuri Kim. Ambassador Kim started her mandate in January 2020 and already after 3 years she will have to leave at the end of it.

The MEPJ, although confirming in this way the departure of the diplomat proposed by Donald Trump, does not provide details on who will be her successor.

"We confirm that the procedure to replace Ambassador Kim has officially started, while the procedure does not allow us to comment on the name of the new ambassador", the announcement reads.

Who will be the new ambassador in Tirana?

The American Ambassador, Yuri Kim, held a meeting with President Bajram Begaj yesterday, to whom she communicated the end of Ambassador Kim's mandate in Tirana.

After Yuri Kim's term ends, the US embassy will be headed by Deputy Ambassador Demian Smith, who began his duties as Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy in Tirana in July 2021.

Smith will be in office until President Joe Biden appoints the new ambassador in Tirana, who, according to Vox News sources, is not an unknown name for Albania.

According to VoxNews sources, the new ambassador is an expert on Russian affairs and a career diplomat. He recently served in the US Department of State and the US Army Joint Staff.

Who is Yuri Kim?

Yuri Kim arrived in Tirana as the United States Ambassador to the Republic of Albania in January 2020. Ambassador Kim, a career diplomat, has worked on key foreign policy and national security challenges throughout Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

She was director of Southern European Affairs and covered Turkey, Greece, Cyprus and the wider Eastern Mediterranean region; as director of the Office of European Security and Political-Military Affairs, she has covered NATO and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Previously, she was Chief of Cabinet of the Deputy Secretary of State and director of the Center for the Study of Diplomacy Administration.

Earlier in her career, she was Special Assistant to Secretary of State Colin Powell, as well as Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. Her mandates outside the US include Turkey, Iraq, the Republic of Korea, Japan and China. Yuri Kim holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master's in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge.

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