Fake news is spreading in Tirana/ Official: Yuri Kim is appointed Senior Advisor to the State Department!

The State Department has published on its official website the announcement that former US Ambassador to Tirana, Yuri Kim, has been appointed to the senior position of Assistant to the State Department for Efficiency and Accountability for the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs. We recall that in recent days certain media outlets (even Grida Duma did a show), Sali Berisha and DP exponents, spread reliable news that Kim had been completely dismissed from the service and had even made an agreement to avoid investigation.

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Yuri Kim is the Senior Advisor for Efficiency and Accountability for the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs. Previously, Ambassador Kim was the Bureau's Deputy Assistant Principal Secretary from 2023 to 2025.

A career diplomat, Ambassador Kim has worked on major foreign policy and national security challenges in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. She served as the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Albania from 2020 to 2023, appointed by President Trump and continued under President Biden. Prior to that, she was Director of Southern European Affairs, responsible for Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, and the broader Eastern Mediterranean region; Director of the Center for the Study of the Conduct of Diplomacy; and Director of the Office of European Security and Politico-Military Affairs, responsible for NATO and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).

She was Chief of Staff to the Deputy Secretary of State and, earlier in her career, a Special Assistant to Secretary Colin Powell. She was also a member of the U.S. delegation to the Six-Party Talks on the DPRK nuclear issue. Overseas assignments include Turkey, Iraq, the Republic of Korea, Japan, and China. Yuri Kim holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge. She grew up on the island of Guam.

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