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

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n diplomat, lawyer and notary public. He was appointed Head of the independent three-member panel to lead the

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(OPCW)-United Nations Joint Investigative Mechanism on 27 April 2017. Mulet served as the last Chief of Staff to former

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. Previously, he was Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations at the

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. He was appointed to this position on 2 June 2011. He was the

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and head of mission of

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, having assumed the functions of acting head of mission in the immediate aftermath of the

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, in which the previous head of mission,

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, perished. Mulet served a previous term in this position between June 2006 and August 2007. Immediately prior to taking up his post, he was

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for

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. Prior to this, he was

's ambassador to the

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, the Kingdom of Belgium and the

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

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 Galvez. He is married and has two sons. He is fluent in Spanish, English and French.

Career

Mulet was first elected to

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in 1982. He was a candidate to the 1984 National Constituent Assembly, and was re-elected to Congress for the period 1986–1991. In 1990, he was re-elected for the period 1991–1996. During his years in Congress, he was involved in the Central American peace process, the 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

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of Congress. In 1993, he was appointed Ambassador to the

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, a post from which he resigned following the

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of President

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in 1993. Following the restoration of democratic rule, Mulet resumed his functions until 1996. During those years, he was a regular lecturer at think-tanks, universities and colleges across the

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, and at the

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Upon his return to Guatemala in 1996, he was elected general secretary of the Unión del Centro Nacional party. Mulet served as the United Nations Special Representative for Haiti from 2005 to 2007. On 27 July 2007,

announced his intention to appoint Mulet as Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, effective 1 September. 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). He succeeded late Hédi Annabi of Tunisia, who perished in the

. On 2 June 2011, Mulet was re-appointed by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, a position Mulet had previously held from 2007 to 2010 before being deployed to Haiti.

References

External links

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