Thank you and farewell to the best team ever! 🇺🇸 ❤️ 🇦🇱

1/3 'Americans chose on July 4, 1776, to be free; to believe that citizens are the source, not subject, of the government’s power; to commit to choosing our future every day to make our union more perfect;...

1/3 “On a personal note, I would like to tell you that I have been changed in many ways by my experience in Albania. I will leave Albania with deep respect for your history, your traditions, your legendary Albanian persistence.

.President Biden to our Ambassadors and Chiefs of Mission: We’re investing in our strengths at home. We’re investing in our strengths abroad. The alliances and partnerships that you maintain and deepen every day are the heart of our strategic advantage in the world.

I’m enormously proud of all the progress that NATO has made since we last came together.

The alliance faces historic challenges. But we’re meeting those challenges with confidence—and above all, with unity.

I made a promise to put diplomacy back at the center of American foreign policy.

And it's because of the men and women of the Department of State and their families that we've delivered on that promise.

May God protect our diplomats, their families, and all those who serve our nation.

Welcome back Ambassadors and Consuls General to Washington, D.C. for our Chiefs of Mission conference. It’s an important opportunity for us to come together and discuss our continued work on behalf of the people of the United States.

As President Biden told 🇺🇸 ambassadors, the world is at an inflection point, and what we do now will shape the course of our country & world for the next 4-5 generations. 🇺🇸 diplomacy aims to point us in the right direction on behalf of the American people.

Thank you, Mayor Erion Veliaj #B40TiranaSummit 🇪🇺🇦🇱 , for this honor! I ❤️ Tirana!

1/3 “Shumë zhgënjyese të shohësh se mënyrat e vjetra të mosndëshkimit dhe privilegjimit për disa vazhdojnë në sistemin e drejtësisë në Shqipëri.

Very disappointing to see that the old ways of impunity & privilege for some persist in 🇦🇱 justice system. These old ways are not appropriate for a NATO Ally & EU aspirant, and they must be firmly rejected. 🇺🇸 considers corruption to be a core national security threat. Those…

1/2 U.S. Ambassador to Albania Yuri Kim visited the municipalities of Skrapar and Libohovë yesterday to say farewell to citizens.

Heartbreaking: More than 500 Ukrainian children have been killed as a result of Russia’s unprovoked, full-scale war in Ukraine.  And today, on Int’l Day for the Protection of Children, two more children were tragically killed during another round of Russia's cowardly nighttime…

1/3 U.S. Ambassador to Albania Yuri Kim visited Shkodra after spending time in Tropoja as part of her farewell tour throughout Albania.

#HappeningNow in Albania with our NATO #Allies for the #DefenderEurope exercise #ImmediateResponse 23.

#BeAllYouCanBe #MakingaDifference #StrongerTogether #WeAreNATO

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#Training with our NATO #Allies in #Albania improves both #interoperability and relations, like seen here during the #DefenderEurope exercise #ImmediateResponse taking place in multiple locations simultaneously.

#BeAllYouCanBe #StrongerTogether
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1/2 U.S. Ambassador to Albania Yuri Kim visited Tropoja to begin the process of bidding farewell as she completes her assignment in Albania. During her visit to Bajram Curri, she met with local citizens, expressing her gratitude and fondness for Tropoja as one of her favorite places in…