The president said that Zaimi did not comply with the required criteria to be a military representative at the NATO, adding that he had previously used his military grade contrary to the law.
TIRANA, April 23 – President Bujar Nishani has turned down a proposal from the government that Arjan Zaimi, a former army general, take the post of the military envoy at the NATO headquarters in Brussels.
The president said that Zaimi did not comply with the required criteria to be a military representative at the NATO, adding that he had previously used his military grade contrary to the law.
Zaimi is now a military adviser to the defense minister, Mimi Kodheli. He has also previously as an ambassador at the NATO headquarters for a decade.
The refusal from the president now apparently comes as a rebuke for what the government did with the outgoing ambassador, Rear Admiral Kristaq Gerveni.
In fact, it is a proof of the political disagreements that the president has with the new government of Prime Minister Edi Rama purely because he has been previously affiliated with the now-opposition Democrats, who nominated him two years ago.
All such a fight just proves what the local media and analysts continuously report on the hidden disagreement between the government and the president, who has refused many other proposals for the ambassadors’ posts made during these eight months of the Socialists in power.
