President of the Republic, Ilir Meta's spokesperson, Tedi Blushi has informed Wednesday that a meeting between the Albanian Head of State and the Acting Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Ambassador Philip T. Reeker was not demanded.

This clarification came after the VOA reported that Ambassador Reeker paid an official visit to Tirana today, but he did not see President Meta despite meetings with Prime Minister Edi Rama and Democratic Party Chairman Lulzim Basha, also Foreign Minister Olta Xhaçka and the Ministers of Defense and Justice.

Furthermore, the VOA brought to attention that the “Head of the Albanian state, especially in recent months, has been in a course of confrontation with the American Ambassador Yuri Kim, while he used harsh tones against the decision of the American Department towards Mr. Berisha, calling it a ‘leaflet’ or an ugly act of filth and treachery that has to do only with anti-Albanian lobbying and nothing else”.

Earlier on, a spokesman for the US embassy told VOA that "for reasons of agenda building, a meeting with President Meta was not possible this time."