For many, the handshake between Minister Kodheli and the Secret Service
Director, Visho Ajazi, accompanies by the smile of Ambassador Arvizu,
might be seen as a moment of reconciliation between them.
Everything took place this Monday morning at the Ministry of Defense, during the seminary “Intelligence and Democracy”, without the presence of the media. The Press Office of the Ministry of Defense took care to photograph the handshake.
The photo seems to have brought to an end not much the troubled relations between the majority and the Secret Service director, but also a story that had turned into a hot potato for the government. Another character missing in this scene might be the President, who willingly or not became a protagonist of the drug story with the army airplanes.
What really happened in the past 48 hours between the Ministry of Defense, the Presidency and the United States Embassy, which might have produced the declaration of the Secret Service this Saturday, and the handshakes between Kodheli and Ajazi this Monday? What was the role of the United States and of Ambassador Arvizu?
Ajazi’s letter sent to Kodheli and published on the media provoked an unprecedented wave of accusations against the Albanian army in the past 23 years.
When the debate initiated by the opposition was heating up, Arvizu gave the first supportive sign for the Armed Forces, when he declared that the United States greet the reforms of the Ministry of Defense, by encouraging the implementation of the Defense Strategy Review.
But the diplomatic agenda of Alexander Arvizu didn’t end here. A few days earlier, as the accusations were going on, he visited the Presidency where he met with President Bujar Nishani, General Commander of the Armed Forces, and the Secret Service Director, Visho Ajazi.
Nishani, Chief on Command even of the Secret Service, by Constitution, kept the role of a spectator and declared that the drug information didn’t go to him through the Sercret Service or the army, but from the opposition and the media.
Although no declaration was published regarding the meeting between Arvizu and Nishani, diplomatic sources suggest that the United States ambassador has asked Nishani to exert all of his competences to end the attacks against the army. 24 later, on the website of the Secret Service, a declaration was published that rejected the accusations of drug and airplanes.
In two years, the Secret Service has published only seven documents on its website. The first one is Nishani’s decree for appointing Visho Ajazi, two auctions, one honoring ceremony and two press releases.
One press release was published on September, when Ajazi was accused, and the other two days ago, when Ajazi accused others. Today was photographed Kodheli’s and Ajazi’s smile in front of Alexander Arvizu. What we don’t know for sure is the future actions of Visho Ajazi Lika.
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