Walid Muallem

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Walid al Muallem (born 1941) is the current foreign minister of Syria and a long-time diplomat for that country. He took office as foreign minister on February 11, 2006 during a cabinet reshuffle in which his predecessor Farouk al-Sharaa became vice-president. Muallem is a former ambassador to the United States and was serving as deputy foreign minister of Syria when he became foreign minister. He has been accused, along with Sharaa and many other Syrian diplomats and politicians, of lying to international investigators about possible Syrian involvement in the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri. He currently resides in Damascus.