Manmohan Singh, India's new Prime Minister who was appointed following the surprise victory of the Congress Party in national elections in May, visited ICTP in 1988 in his capacity as Secretary General of the South Commission to attend a meeting of the South Commission's Working Group on Science and Technology. The South Commission was established in 1987 under the chairmanship of Julius Nyerere, former President of Tanzania and long-time friend of ICTP's Founding Director Abdus Salam.