Embassy: US ambassador to Haiti retires
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – The U.S. ambassador to Haiti has retired after a 29-year career as a foreign service officer.
Peter Mulrean’s departure was announced Monday by the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince. The embassy’s charge d’affaires will be in charge until a successor is nominated by President Donald Trump and confirmed by the Senate.
Mulrean took over as ambassador in October 2015 as Haiti was starting a repeatedly derailed electoral cycle that didn’t conclude until Jovenel Moise was inaugurated as president this month.
Kenneth Merten is the U.S. State Department’s special co-ordinator for Haiti. He said Mulrean chose to retire and praised him for “helping Haiti get through what has been a painful electoral process.”
Mulrean is an expert on the Balkans and Middle East who also served in Geneva, Afghanistan, Brussels and Tunisia.
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