TIRANA – An interview with a local TV of the US Ambassador to Tirana, Yuri Kim has caught the attention of the Albanian public opinion which has not been used to having earlier announcement on such an event of US diplomats in Albania before.
In the announcement it is said that Washington’s top diplomat to Tirana will answer several key questions, regarding what is going on in the country in what is found out to be her first TV interview for the Albanian media. ,.
According to what is reported the interview will be broadcasted at Euronews Albania TV on Tuesday at 19:00 o’clock.
Albanians have also been made available of the questions which Ms. Kim will answer and they are the following:
1. Why did she choose to communicate directly with Albanians through social media?
2. Mission to Complete Justice Reform; Who are those who do not want Justice Reform?
3. Why did she meet with Dvorani and should the High Judicial Council itself have made the decision?
4. Investigation of tenders during the coronavirus crisis by SPAK.
5. The political climate and the completion of reforms to open negotiations with the EU.
6. Does the US support one side over the other?
7. What keeps American investments away from Albania?
It has been significant among others in the busy schedule the involvement of the US Ambassador, Kim with the justice reform and political life in the country. She has hailed the meetings of the Security Council initiated by President Ilir Meta in the frame of the combat against coronavirus pandemic. She also met Judge Ardian Dvorani, Chairman of Justice Appointments Council (JAC), on April 30 to discuss, as she said on Twitter, “the importance of the independence, integrity & efficiency of judicial institutions. Will continue to strongly support implementation of justice reforms in (Albania). We must bend the arc of history towards justice.”
Ambassador Kim met Dvorani after President Ilir Meta sent a letter to the High Court and the High Judicial Council (HJC) stating that Dvorani’s mandate as a member of the Supreme Court was over. Meta told these institutions that he could no longer be a member of the High Court or the head of JAC as his term of office ended in 2014.
In response to President’s request the High Judicial Council ruled to put off the consideration of the case.
A day before the meeting of HJC a defiant Dvorani said: “I will remain on duty until the successor is appointed. Appointments in the Supreme Court are not like in the Constitutional Court, they are not made with names, but with positions.”/argumentum.al
