{"id":7056,"date":"2026-08-12T19:31:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T19:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/times509.com\/?p=7056"},"modified":"2026-08-12T19:31:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T19:31:40","slug":"gautier-lekens-named-french-ambassador-to-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/12\/gautier-lekens-named-french-ambassador-to-haiti\/","title":{"rendered":"Gautier Lekens named French ambassador to Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">By a decree dated August 10, 2026, French President Emmanuel Macron appointed Gautier Lekens as the extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador of the French Republic to Haiti.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">By a decree dated August 10, 2026, French President Emmanuel Macron appointed Gautier Lekens as the extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador of the French Republic to Haiti. The document bears the signatures of President Emmanuel Macron, Prime Minister S\u00e9bastien Lecornu, and the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Jean-No\u00ebl Barrot. A career diplomat, Gautier Lekens has notably served as a diplomatic advisor in the office of the French Prime Minister and as minister-counselor at the French Embassy in Spain. He succeeds Antoine Michon, whose term is coming to an end, and is expected to take up his duties next September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By a decree dated August 10, 2026, French President Emmanuel Macron appointed Gautier Lekens as the extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador of the French Republic to Haiti. By a decree dated&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_angie_page":false,"content-type":"","_aifi_custom_prompt":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"coauthors":[57],"class_list":["post-7056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diplomacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7058,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7056\/revisions\/7058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7056"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}