\"President of the United Nations\" Mongi Slim Signed TLS Dated 1959 COA for Sale

\"President of the United Nations\" Mongi Slim Signed TLS Dated 1959 COA For Sale

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\"President of the United Nations\" Mongi Slim Signed TLS Dated 1959 COA:
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ES - سليم‎) (September 1, 1908 – October 23, 1969) was a Tunisian diplomat who became the first African

to become the President of the United Nations General Assembly in 1961.

He received a degree from the faculty of law of the University of Paris. He

was twice imprisoned by the French during the Tunisian struggle for

independence. Born on September 15, 1908, in Tunis,

Slim came from an aristocratic family of Greek and Turkish origin. His mother was a member of the

Beyrum family, a noble Turkish family which had risen to prominence in Tunis,

and was famous throughout the Arab world for its learnedness in Moslem law. One

of Slim's great-grandfathers, a Greek named Kafkalas His paternal grandfather

was an aristocratic Caid who ruled the wealthy province of Cape Bon. In 1936, Slim became involved in organizations

advocating Tunisia's independence from France. In 1954, he became the chief

Tunisian negotiator in discussions with France on independence. In this

position, he helped draft protocols which secured Tunisia's independence in

1956. Slim served as an interior minister of Tunisia from 1955 to 1956. In 1956

he became Tunisia's ambassador to the United States,

Canada and the United Nations. He became involved in a special United Nations

Committee on the problem of Hungary and served as a delegate to the United Nations Security Council.

He relinquished his posts as ambassador to the United States and Canada in 1961

when he was unanimously elected president of the United Nations General

Assembly after a plane crash that killed U.N. Secretary

General Dag Hammarskjöld. Slim

made the cover of Time magazine in September 1961. The United States came up with a plan to have

Slim carry out the duties of Secretary-General while delegating his own duties

to a Vice-President of the General Assembly.[8] However, the Soviet Union favored U Thant of Burma and secured U.S. agreement to appoint Thant acting Secretary-General for the remainder

of Hammarskjöld's term. Slim left the United Nations in 1962 and became Minister of

Foreign Affairs of Tunisia. He served in that position until 1964.