A view from the retirement ceremony of American General Orr, who greatly helped Kosovo

The chair, which has distributed several photos from this ceremony on the social network “Facebook” wrote that it was an honor to attend this ceremony.

On the other hand, Currici has thanked General Orr, who has done much for Kosovo during the time he served as commander-in-chief of the IOWAE National Guard.

It was an honor to be part of the retirement ceremony of Major General Timothy Orr as the general commander of the IOWA National Guard, thank you General Orr for all that you've done for my country”, has written the government, whose publication has been distributed by Kosovo's ambassador to the United States, Vlora Citaku.

We remember that Major General Timothy E. Orr in Kosovo was early May, this year's, like, weeks ago.

He had welcoming meetings with all Kosovo leaders President Hashim Thaci, Chief Parliamentary Kadri Veselin and Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj.

In his last speech, he has said that Kosovo is his second home, and that KSF soldiers are his brothers.

This is my home. I often tell people that Kosovo is my second home. And I'm happy to come whenever I can. This is my last time in Kosovo in uniform, but it will come again, as I am happy for thisco-operation”, he has said.

Who is General Timothy Orr and what is the importance of cooperation between the KSF and the National Guard of Iowa?

It was 2012, when former Kosovo President Atifete Jahjaga and former American Ambassador to Kosovo Christofer Dell had signed a co-operation agreement between the Republic of Kosovo and the United States of America, which was known as é SOFA. The agreement signed on February 18, 2012, as it was announced at the time, defined the legal establishment of US military personnel and American citizens working in Kosovo in programmes supporting common security. The agreement would particularly include the National Iowa Guard in the state partnership programme with KSF. The US agreement Kosovo would be named as an agreement demonstrating the power of partnership between America and Kosovo, writes Periscopi.

Before this agreement was signed, continued visits to Kosovo by top military figures from the Iowa National Guard had taken place. A year before that deal, General Timothy Orr visited Kosovo. General Orr, then to be hosted by KSF Minister Agim Ceku, then KSF Commander Lieutenant General Sylejman Selimi, as well as Commander of the Land Force Command, Major General Tsundman Rama. In honor of this visit, an honorary platoon of KSF was listed.

Since then, American General Orr has visited Kosovo dozens of times. If you write it to Google General Orr visits Kosovo, you will find a significant number of news reports announcing his visit. With almost every American military delegation coming to Kosovo, General Orr has never been absent. The same was true of our American delegations. Anyone going to Iowa was expected by General Orr.

We only remember the recent visit of Prime Minister Kadri Wessel, who a few days before the transformation of the Kosovo Security Force, was the media's focus because he had gone to prove the military means that America (Iowa) would give KSF. There, Wessel had received the support of the Eagle Guard for KSF, especially that of General Timothy Orr.

The American general, Timothy Orr, even in his recent speech before the General Assembly of Ioua, mentioned with particular emphasis Kosovo's partnership between the Iowa National Guard and the Kosovo Security Force, writes Periscopi.

In his speech on January 17, 2019, General Orr says:

Our third priority remains to build partnerships at the local, state, federal and international level. One of our most important co-operation is that through the State Co-operation Programme with the Kosovo Security Force and the Republic of Kosovo.

Furthermore, a long part of the speech, General Orr, costs the co-operation of Kosovo and Iowas.

In an interview he had given during his stay in Kosovo, he had not indicated what he planned after retirement until he had ruled out the possibility of involvement in politics./ P ERISCOPIA