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{{short description|Syrian jurist and diplomat}}
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| honorific-prefix    = [[Excellency|His excellency]]
| name                = Salah El-Din Tarazi
| native_name         = {{nobold|{{lang|ar|صلاح الدين ترزي}}}}
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| image               = Salah Tarazi.jpg
| caption             = Tarazi in 1963
| image_size         = 300px
| office1             = 4th [[Permanent Representative of Syria to the United Nations]]
| term_start1         = 1962
| term_end1           = 1964
| president1          = [[Nazim al-Qudsi]]<br>[[Lu'ay al-Atassi]]<br>[[Amin al-Hafiz]]
| predecessor1        = [[Rafik Asha]]
| successor1          = [[George Tomeh]]
| office2             = Judge of the [[International Court of Justice]]
| term_start2         = February 1976
| term_end2           = 4 October 1980
| predecessor2        = [[Fouad Ammoun]]
| successor2          = [[Abdallah Fikri El-Khani]]
| birth_date          = {{birth-date|1917}}
| death_date          = {{Death date and age|1980|10|4|1917|mf=y}}
| birth_place         = [[Damascus]], [[Ottoman Syria]] ''{{small|(present day [[Syria]])}}''
| death_place         = [[Den Haag]], [[the Netherlands]]
| nationality         = [[Syrian]]
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| party               = [[National Bloc (Syria)|National Bloc]] (until 1947)
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| residence           = [[Damascus]]
| alma_mater          = [[Damascus University]]
| occupation          =
| profession          = [[Lawyer]],  [[Diplomat]], [[Professor]]
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'''Salah El-Dine Tarazi''' ({{langx|ar|صلاح الدين ترزي|Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn Tarazī}}; 24 December 1917 –  4 October 1980 in) was a Syrian lawyer and [[diplomat]]. He [[Permanent Representative of Syria to the United Nations|represented]] his homeland at the meetings of the [[General Assembly of the United Nations]] and as an [[ambassador]] to various countries.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.un.int/syria/syria/former-permanent-representatives-syrian-arab-republic-united-nations-headquarters-new-york|title= Former Permanent Representatives of the Syrian Arab Republic to the United Nations Headquarters in New York|author=<!--Not stated--> |access-date= 2017-03-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160213004600/https://www.un.int/syria/syria/former-permanent-representatives-syrian-arab-republic-united-nations-headquarters-new-york|archive-date=2016-02-13}}</ref> He served as a [[Judges of the International Court of Justice|judge]] at the [[International Court of Justice]] from 1976 until his death.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.icj-cij.org/node/100871|title=Death of Judge Salah El Dine Tarazi, Member of the Court}}</ref>
==Life and career==
Salah el-Dine Tarazi was born in Damascus in 1917 and completed his legal education at the ''Collège des Frères'' there and at the ''École Française de Droit'' in [[Beirut]].<ref name="rel1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.icj-cij.org/public/files/press-releases/9/11809.pdf|title=ICJ Press release 11 October 1980}}</ref> He then worked as a lawyer in his hometown from 1940 to 1947. After his [[doctorate]] in 1945, he taught [[public law]] at the [[University of Damascus]] from 1946 to 1949.<ref name="rel1" /> In addition, he worked for the Syrian Ministry of Finance from 1945 to 1947.
In 1949, he began a diplomatic career in the [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates (Syria)|Ministry of Foreign Affairs]], where, interrupted by a position in 1951/1952 as [[chargé d'affaires]] in [[Belgium]], he became Secretary General.<ref name="rel1" /> He was then [[ambassador]] to the [[Soviet Union]] (1957/1958 and 1965–1970), [[Czechoslovakia]] (1958/1959), in [[China]] (1960/1961) and the [[Turkey]] (1970–1974).<ref name="rel1" /> From 1962 to 1964 he was the Permanent Representative of Syria to the [[United Nations]].
In addition, he represented Syria regularly between 1949 and 1971 at the sessions of the [[General Assembly of the United Nations]] and in 1968 at the negotiations on the [[Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties]]. In 1978 he worked as a lecturer at the [[Hague Academy of International Law]]. Three years earlier he had been elected as [[Judges of the International Court of Justice|judge]] at the [[International Court of Justice]] in [[The Hague]]. His regular nine-year term of office began in February 1976. In October 1980 he died in a traffic accident in The Hague. In accordance with the [[United Nations Security Council Resolution 480]], his compatriot [[Abdallah Fikri El-Khani]] was elected to succeed him for the remainder of his term.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://unscr.com/en/resolutions/480|title=Resolution 480}}</ref>
==References==
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==Literature==
* ''Biography. Salah El Dine Tarazi.'' In: ''Recueil Des Cours.'' Band&nbsp;159. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Den Haag 1979, ISBN 90-286-0359-X, S.&nbsp;349
* ''Judge Salah El Dine Tarazi.'' In: ''Yearbook of the International Court of Justice 1979–1980.'' Band&nbsp;34. United Nations Publications, Den Haag 1979, S.&nbsp;24
* '' Salah El Dine Tarazi.'' In: Arthur Eyffinger, Arthur Witteveen, [[Mohammed Bedjaoui]]: ''La Cour internationale de Justice 1946–1996.'' Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Den Haag und London 1999, ISBN 90-411-0468-2, S.&nbsp;331
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