Tunisia- Conference Room Named After Late Mongi Slim Inaugurated At UN Headquarters in Tunis

Foreign Minister Khemaies Jhinaoui and United Nations Director Resident Co-ordinator in Tunisia Diego Zorilla inaugurated a conference room styled after the late Mongi Slim in the United Nations headquarters in Tunis.
The initiative to name this room after Mongi Slim, the first African personality to preside over the United Nations General Assembly (1961-1962) and founder of the Tunisian association of the United Nations (1960) was started by the Tunisian Association of the United Nations and the UN in Tunisia, the Tunis Afrique Presse reported. Family of the late Monji Slim, national and international figures attended the inauguration ceremony.

Minister of Foreign Affairs, declared that this act “reflected the significance of this national personality who committed to leading the national movement and the construction of an independent state”. “This personality was also one of the founders of the Tunisian diplomacy and laid the foundation for this modern diplomacy, which Tunisia tries to follow and respect as principles of international action,” he added

For his part, the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Tunisia, Diego Zorilla, expressed the “great pride” of the United Nations, which dedicated, on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary, a conference room at its Tunis headquarters to Mongi Slim “who embodied Tunisian patriotism and contributed to the foundation of the concept of shared responsibility”.