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Tanzania is a Contracting State to the ICSID Convention:

  • Signature: 10 January 1992
  • Deposit of Ratification: 18 May 1992
  • Entry into Force: 17 June 1992
  • Pursuant to Article 13(1) of the ICSID Convention Tanzania has made the following panel designations effective until 26 August 2005:
    - Mr. Elisifa KINASHA: Chief Consultant, National Construction Council
    - Mr. M.J.A. LUKWARO: Advocate; Founding Member, Tanzania Institute of Arbitrators
    - Ms. Verdiana Nkwabi MACHA: State Attorney, Attorney General’s Chambers
    - Mr. K.M.I.M. MSITA

Tanzania is a Contracting State to the New York Convention:

  • Date of Accession: 13 October 1964
  • Entry into Force: 12 January 1965
  • Tanzania will only apply the New York Convention to the recognition and enforcement of awards made in the territory of another contracting state

Tanzania is not a Contracting State to the 1899 Convention for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes:

  • Entry into Force: N/A

Tanzania is not a Contracting State to the 1907 Convention for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes:

  • Entry into Force: N/A

Tanzania is a United Nations Member State:

  • Date of Admission: 14 December 1961

Official State Name: United Republic of Tanzania - Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania

Official Languages: English, Swahili (de facto)

Capital: Dodoma

Largest City: Dar es Salaam

Motto: "Uhuru na Umoja" (Swahili) "Freedom and Unity"

Currency: Tanzanian shilling (TZS)

Time Zone: EAT (UTC+3)

International Calling Code: +255

Internet TLD: .tz

Location of Tanzania within the African Union

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