http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Membe
Bernard Kamillius Membe, MP (born 9 November 1953) is a Tanzanian
politician, who is the current Minister of Foreign Affairs and
International Cooperation. In Parliament, he has represented the
southern constituency of Mtama in Lindi Region since 2000.[1]
He was educated at Rondo-Chiponda Extended Primary School and Namupa
Seminary Secondary School for his O Levels. He attended Itaga Seminary
High School for his A Levels. He studied political science at the
University of Dar es Salaam and international relations at Johns
Hopkins University. He did his national service for one year at Oljoro
Military Camp in Arusha Region.[1]
Membe served as a national security analyst at the President's Office
from 1978 to 1989. He thereafter attended John Hopkins University in
Washington, D.C. where he studied international relations from 1990 to
1992. He then returned and worked as an advisor at the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs.[1]
In 2000 he was elected as a CCM member of parliament representing
Mtama constituency in the general election. He was re-elected in 2005
and 2010. He was appointed as Deputy Minister of Home Affairs by
President Jakaya Kikwete after the 2005 general elections.[2] After a
cabinet reshuffle in October 2006, he was appointed as Deputy Minister
of Energy and Minerals .
In January 2007, he was appointed as the Minister of Foreign Affairs
and International Co-operation after his predecessor Asha-Rose Migiro
was appointed as the United Nations Deputy Secretary-General by the
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. He has also served as a member of
the National Executive Committee of the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi
party since 2007; having been re-elected in 2012 at the 8th CCM
Congress in Dodoma.[3]
In January 2013, Membe informed his constituents that he would not be
vying for a seat in the next parliamentary elections in 2015 thus
giving rise to speculation that he may be considering to run for the
presidency.[4]
Chairman of the African Union Executive Council
Membe at the 12th AU Summit
As foreign minister, Membe served as the chairman of the Executive
Council of the African Union for one year when Tanzania assumed the
rotating chair of the continental body in January 2008. During his
tenure, Mauritania[11] and Guinea[12] had their membership suspended
after the 2008 Mauritanian coup d'état and 2008 Guinean coup d'état
respectively. Their delegations were barred from attending the
biannual summit in January 2009. Membe was quoted as saying, "There is
no good coup or bad coup. A coup is a coup and it cannot be
tolerated." He also said the AU was against the indictment of Sudanese
President Omar al-Bashir by the International Criminal Court.[12]
[edit]Lake Nyasa border dispute
In July 2012, Membe informed his Malawian counterpart that oil and gas
exploration on the eastern side of Lake Nyasa (also known as Lake
Malawi) should henceforth cease immediately until the ownership of the
lake is resolved.[13] Tanzania maintains that the international border
runs through the middle of the lake whereas Malawi insists the border
is at the Tanzanian shore citing the Heligoland–Zanzibar Treaty of
1890. In December 2012 he presented a letter of application for
mediation on Tanzania's behalf to Joaquim Chissano, the chair of the
Forum of Former African Heads of State and Government requesting the
forum to mediate the dispute.[14] He ruled out the belated
intervention by the Malawi Council of Churches and the Christian
Council of Tanzania to mediate as the matter had now been handed over
to the African Forum.[15]
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