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The history of Ministry of Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation
dates back soon after independence in 1961. Up to December 1963, it was a
department under Prime Minister’s Office. In 1964 it became a fully
fledged Ministry under the name of Ministry of External Affairs.
For four decades since the sixties, the Ministry’s operations were guided by Presidential Circular No. 2 of 1964.
The Circular specified Foreign Policy priorities that evolved around
racial equality, collective self-reliance, world at peace, on the basis
of the socio-economic realities of sixties and seventies.
For instance, the challenges of colonial domination and
neo-colonialism, the super power rivalry, unfavorable economic situation
of developing countries, and the fragility of statehood in Africa – all
demanded such response. The policy served Tanzania well over the years.
However, both domestic and international economic and social political
shifts in the eighties and nineties necessitated the revision of Foreign
Policy and as a consequence the redefinition of the Ministry’s roles
and functions. Specific contributory factors included the disintegration
of the bipolar system of international relations and the whole range of
major political and economic consequences that followed.
For example, the global shift towards market – led economies and the
process of regionalization, globalization and liberalization, the shift
from development aid to trade and investments, the resurgence of
intra-state and inter-state conflicts, the movement towards greater
embrace of multi-party democracy, human rights and good governance, the
emergence of new shared challenges such as international terrorism,
illegal immigration, the preservation of the environment, advances in
science and technology, fundamentally altered the international system.
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