US/Ambassador/Macedonia

US/Ambassador/Macedonia  (Ambassador to Macedonia)
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Start	December 3, 1993
Website	http://macedonia.usembassy.gov/
The United States ambassador to Macedonia

The United States ambassador to North Macedonia is the official representative of the president of the United States to the head of state of North Macedonia.

The Ambassador, based out of Skopje, works with the rest of the embassy - 70 other Americans and 240 locals.

Activities

KLA as proxy force

In November 2001, the Executive Intelligence Review reported that Ambassador James W. Pardew, sent to Macedonia as Special Envoy and "peace" negotiator, protected the Kosovo Liberation Army:

the ethnic Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) is directly linked to the Afghan Taliban and al-Qaeda in drug trafficking, weapons trafficking, and terrorist training. Despite this, a new bloody KLA escalation launched has again hit the north of neighboring Macedonia, without response from the West; and worse, perhaps with the encouragement of U.S. Ambassador James Pardew. On Nov. 12, a terrorist gang ambushed, with precision suggesting sophisticated advance intelligence, a Macedonian police armored vehicle, killing three and seriously injuring three more. This time, however, Macedonia reacted, directing the spotlight at some of the "puppetmasters." On Nov. 14, the main Macedonian daily, Dnevnik, accused the U.S. "facilitator," Ambassador Pardew... The irregular warfare waged by the KLA is one element of a broader psychological war aimed at breaking Macedonia's moral ability to resist. Any time the Macedonians have rejected, even partially, an order coming from NATO, particularly its Anglo-American, the KLA has been deployed with such deadly precision, that observers on the scene believe the terrorists are accessing sophisticated intelligence, allegedly received through satellite communications controlled by certain NATO components.

Lawfare

In 2018, US Ambassador Jess Baily sent a letter to the Skopje Criminal Court demanding that judges stop using his name when ordering detention against former VMRO-DPMNE officials or when sentencing them to prison. Baily sent the letter to Criminal Court head Ivan Dzolev, saying that he is "disappointed from the constant reports that judges say that they are ordering detentions and prison sentences under pressure from the US Embassy". The US Embassy was heavily involved in the years long political crisis in Macedonia, which resulted with dozens of criminal charges filed by the newly created Special Prosecutors Office almost exclusively against VMRO-DPMNE officials, which paved the way for the SDSM party to take over the Government, while credible allegations of crimes and corruption against SDSM officials were dismissed.

$1.75 billion for "promoting democracy"

In 2018, according to the New York Times, the US Congress has allocated $8 million specifically for Macedonia "to fight Russian disinformation campaigns". Additionally, the US provided Macedonia with an extra $2 million to "promote the "rule of law in the country. Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said that the amount the US government has spent to "promote democracy" in the country is more than $1.75 billion.

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