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United Republic of Tanzania
A combined view of United Republic of Tanzania's UN General Assembly speeches, treaty commitments, and voting record.
The narrative paragraphs below are AI-generated syntheses of the data shown — the tables and figures themselves come directly from the underlying records, not from the AI.
Compare with another country →Speech history
Tanzania's General Assembly speeches have consistently prioritized multilateralism (scoring 68–88 across thirteen years) and African regional concerns, with a notable shift toward greater emotional intensity and moral urgency in recent years. Early addresses (2007–2012) emphasized procedural cooperation and measured diplomacy, while later speeches, particularly from 2023 onward, have paired detailed domestic achievements with increasingly forceful moral appeals against unilateralism and exploitation. Concreteness and self-accountability have generally strengthened over time, peaking in 2016 and 2020 as Tanzania shifted toward detailed national reporting on development and climate progress. The 2025 UN80 address exemplifies this evolution: strong moral condemnation of sanctions and unilateralism, framed within consistent multilateralist rhetoric, signals a country balancing pride in its own SDG progress with demands for institutional reform.
| Session | Multilateralism | Emotional intensity | Concreteness | Self-accountability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Very High | Low | Medium | Medium |
| 2008 | High | Medium | High | Medium |
| 2009 | High | Medium | High | High |
| 2010 | High | Low | High | Medium |
| 2011 | Very High | Medium | Medium | Low |
| 2012 | Very High | Low | Medium | High |
| 2013 | High | Medium | High | High |
| 2015 | Very High | Medium | Medium | Low |
| 2016 | High | Low | High | High |
| 2020 | High | Low | High | High |
| 2023 | High | Medium | Medium | Medium |
| 2024 | High | Medium | High | Medium |
| 2025 | High | High | High | Medium |
Treaty status
Full treaty record →Tanzania demonstrates strong commitment to environmental and human rights frameworks, having ratified all fourteen tracked environment treaties, all five human rights instruments (except torture convention), and all three trade-governance treaties. The country has ratified the Rome Statute and both arms-control treaties in force (CTBT and Anti-Personnel Mines Convention), but notably has signed but not ratified two forward-looking arms agreements: the Arms Trade Treaty and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. This pattern reflects a preference for established multilateral commitments while maintaining flexibility on newer treaties that may require domestic legislative alignment.
Arms control & security
- Arms Trade TreatySigned, not ratified
- Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban TreatyRatified
- Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their DestructionRatified
- Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear WeaponsSigned, not ratified
Environment & climate
- Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their DisposalRatified
- Convention on Biological DiversityRatified
- Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone LayerRatified
- Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ChangeRatified
- Minamata Convention on MercuryRatified
- Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone LayerRatified
- Paris AgreementRatified
- Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International TradeRatified
- Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic PollutantsRatified
- United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in AfricaRatified
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ChangeRatified
Human rights
- Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or PunishmentNo action
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against WomenRatified
- Convention on the Rights of Persons with DisabilitiesRatified
- Convention on the Rights of the ChildRatified
- International Covenant on Civil and Political RightsRatified
International justice
- Rome Statute of the International Criminal CourtRatified
Trade & governance
- United Nations Convention against CorruptionRatified
- United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized CrimeRatified
- United Nations Convention on the Law of the SeaRatified
Voting record
Full voting record →Tanzania's voting record shows overwhelming alignment with General Assembly consensus: 88.3% yes votes across 5,363 ballots, with only 39 no votes and 301 abstentions. Two notable dissents stand out—opposition to the 1968 Non-Proliferation Treaty (when 96% voted yes) and the 1992 Security Council recommendation resolution (95% consensus)—suggesting Tanzania has occasionally taken principled stands on nuclear sovereignty and international governance questions despite near-unanimous opposition, consistent with its recent rhetorical emphasis on challenging unilateral and hegemonic international structures.
Notable dissents from consensus
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1968-06-12 · voted N · 96% voted yes
Recommendation of the Security Council of 19 September 1992 : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1992-09-22 · voted N · 95% voted yes
Human development
Full HDI record →Human Development Index: 0.555 (Medium), ranked #165 globally in 2023.
Combines life expectancy, education, and income into one comparable score, 0 to 1. Source: UNDP Human Development Report 2025 — deterministic figures, not AI-generated.
1990–2023