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Christopher Hill, the first American ambassador to Albania, one of the architects of American diplomacy in the Balkans, shared in an interview for the "Now" show his memories of his mission in our country and the ties he still maintains with Albania.
As the first representative of the United States in post-communist Albania, Hill first discovered that the American embassy in 1991 operated in a single room, No. 205, while the adjacent room, 206, was a residence.
“Definitely yes, definitely yes. But this is the situation: you arrive in a country like Albania and you can look at the future, you can look at whether things were calm, whether things remained calm in Albania. You could see that you were going to have a better future. But the other thing you saw… when I arrived at the beginning, you saw people who were a little older and I could see them in front of the boulevard, in front of the Dajti Hotel, who were taking a walk, a ride. And you could see, you could think about these people, that they had to live their whole lives, they had to live their whole lives in a terrible dictatorship, in the dictatorship of Enver Hoxha and you felt the pain and the pity for these people who had no way of getting their lives back, yet their children and grandchildren have a better future and this is a very strong motivation "It's good for people. However, it's a sad thing to think that they won't get their lives back and that's one of the emotions that comes to mind when you're in a space like that or crosses your heart when you're in a place like Tirana in 1991," Hill recalled.
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