Tunis: Tunisian diplomat Tarek Ben Salem has been appointed Secretary-General of the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU) for a three-year term starting on June 1, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Migration and Tunisians Abroad announced on Monday. Ben Salem's appointment was made 'in accordance with the provisions of the 1989 treaty establishing the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU), at the proposal of President Kais Saied and after the approval of all the heads of state and government of the member states of the Union', the ministry said in a statement. Ben Salem will succeed the union's current secretary-general, Taieb Baccouche (Tunisian), who was appointed to the post in May 2016 following a meeting of the union's foreign ministers. Tarek Ben Salem, 64, joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1990 and has held several posts, most recently as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Tunisia to the Russian Federation in 2019. The Arab Maghreb Union, a regional union, was founded on February 17, 198 9 in Marrakech, Morocco. It is made up of five countries: Tunisia, Libya, Algeria, Morocco and Mauritania. Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse