Edmond Mulet

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In this
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Edmond Mulet
President of the Congress of Guatemala
In office
13 January 1992 – 13 January 1993
Preceded byCatalina Soberanis
Succeeded byJosé Lobo Dubón
Personal details
Born (1951-03-13) 13 March 1951 (age 73)
Political partyCabal (since 2020)
Other political
affiliations		Humanist Party of Guatemala (2017–2020)
National Centre Union (1985–2000)
ProfessionDiplomat
WebsiteMINUSTAH Leadership

Edmond Auguste Mulet Lesieur (born 13 March 1951) is a

MINUSTAH, having assumed the functions of acting head of mission in the immediate aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, in which the previous head of mission, Hédi Annabi of Tunisia, perished, along with his deputy Luiz Carlos da Costa of Brazil, and the acting police commissioner, RCMP Supt. Doug Coates of Canada
, when the mission's headquarters in Port-au-Prince collapsed.

Mulet served a previous term in this position between June 2006 and August 2007.

Immediately prior to taking up his post, he was

Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
, where he represented his country in the preparatory negotiations for free trade agreements between Latin America and the Caribbean and the European Union.

He was a presidential candidate in both the 2019 and the 2023 Guatemalan general elections.

Personal life

Mulet received his primary education in Guatemala City, Montreal, New York City and Bern. He studied law and social studies at Guatemala City's Universidad Mariano Gálvez. He is married and has two sons. He is fluent in Spanish, English and French.

Career

During the 1980s, Mulet was accused of belonging to an illegal adoption ring that facilitated the departure of babies from the country, posing as tourists. In 1981, he was arrested for falsifying adoption paperwork but the charges were later dropped.[2] In 1984, Mulet was again investigated for falsifying adoption paperwork, but no charges were filed against him.[3]

Mulet was first elected to

Esquipulas Accords, and the Guatemalan Peace negotiations. He was also a member of the Guatemalan-Belize Commission, first as a representative of Congress and later as a delegate from the executive branch. In 1992 he became President
of Congress.

In 1993, he was appointed Ambassador to the

Unión del Centro Nacional
party.

Mulet served as the United Nations Special Representative for Haiti from 2005 to 2007.[4]

In 2007, Mulet was appointed as Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, a post he held from 2007 to 2010 and again from 2011 to 2015.[5][6]

On 31 March 2010, Mulet was appointed by the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as his Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH).[5] He succeeded late Hédi Annabi of Tunisia, who perished in the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

He was a presidential candidate in the

right to abortion.[2]

He was also a presidential candidate in the

high-security prison and to raise police salaries. He also said that Guatemala was moving towards a more authoritarian style of governance.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Secretary-General Appoints Edmond Mulet of Guatemala Head of Security Council Joint Investigative Mechanism on Chemical Weapon Use in Syria". United Nations.
  2. ^ a b "Conozca a los candidatos destacados en las presidenciales de Guatemala". 14 June 2019.
  3. ISSN 0261-3077
    . Retrieved 16 January 2024.
  4. ^ "Secretary-General Reappoints Edmond Mulet of Guatemala Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations". Un.org. 2 June 2011. Retrieved 19 September 2012.
  5. ^ a b "United Nations News Centre - Ban re-appoints Edmond Mulet to senior UN peacekeeping post". Un.org. Retrieved 19 September 2012.
  6. ^ "Secretary-General Appoints Edmond Mulet of Guatemala Head of Security Council Joint Investigative Mechanism on Chemical Weapon Use in Syria | UN Press". press.un.org. Retrieved 26 June 2023.
  7. ^ Menchu, Sofia; Oré, Diego; Oré, Diego (26 June 2023). "Guatemala election heads for run-off, leftists in lead amid voter anger". Reuters. Retrieved 26 June 2023.
  8. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 26 June 2023.

External links
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