About Salim Ahmed Salim
Salim Ahmed Salim (Arabic: سليم احمد سليم, Swahili: Salim Ahmad Salim, born 23 January 1942) is a Tanzanian politician and diplomat who has worked in the international diplomatic arena since the early 1960s. He served as prime minister for one year, from 1984 to 1985. == Early life == Salim was born in what was then the Sultanate of Zanzibar to Sheikh Ahmed Salim Riyami, an ethnic Arab of Omani descent while his mother was a local-born mixed-descent Tanzanian, born to an ethnic Arab father and a mixed Afro-Arab mother. == Education == He was educated at Lumumba College in Zanzibar and later pursued his undergraduate studies at the St. Stephen's College of the University of Delhi and obtained his master's degree in international affairs from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University in New York. He became a student activist in the 1950s and was founder and first vice president of the All-Zanzibar Student Union. == Positions held in Tanzania == Chief editor of a Zanzibar daily paper, Secretary General of the All-Zanzibar Journalists Organisation 1963–1964 Minister for Foreign Affairs 1980–1984 Prime Minister of Tanzania 1984–1985 Deputy Prime Minister of Tanzania 1986–1989 Minister of Defence and National Service 1985–1989 President of the Julius K. Nyerere Foundation 2001 – current Member of the Central Committee of the ruling political party in Tanzania (Chama Cha Mapinduzi). Member of the Tanzania Commission for Constitution Review 2012–2014 == Diplomatic positions held == Deputy chief representative of the Zanzibar Office based in Havana, Cuba 1961–1962 Tanzania Ambassador to the Arab Republic of Egypt 1964–1965 Tanzanian High Commissioner (i.e. Ambassador) to India 1965–1968 Tanzania Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China 1969–1970 Permanent Representative of Tanzania to the United Nations 1970–1980 Tanzania Ambassador to Cuba 1970–1980 (served while at the UN) Tanzanian High Commissioner to Guyana, Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago 1970–1980 (served while at the UN) Secretary-general of the OAU 1989–2001 African Union special envoy on the Darfur Conflict 2004–2008 === Positions at the United Nations === June/July 1972: Chairman of the United Nations Special Mission to Niue August 1972: Drafting Committee of the Political Committee of the Ministerial Conference of non-Aligned States, Georgetown, Guyana 1972 to 1980: Chairman of the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization (Committee of 24). April 1973: Chairman of the Political Committee of International Conference of Experts in Support of the Victims of Colonialism and Apartheid in Southern Africa, Oslo 1975: Chairman of the Security Council's Committee on Sanctions against Southern Rhodesia 1976: President of the United Nations Security Council 1979: President of the United Nations General Assembly for the Thirty-fourth, Sixth emergency special, Seventh emergency special, and Eleventh special sessions.
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