Statements
The UN General Debate, 1946 to 2025
11,141 statements across 80 sessions, 32,322,933 words in all. Every member state addresses the General Debate at the opening of each session of the General Assembly; this is the complete record of what was said.
The record is not uniform, and this site says which kind each page is. Sessions 1 to 78 come from official United Nations transcripts. The seventy-ninth session (2024) comes from statement PDFs published by delegations, some read by optical character recognition and some machine-translated. The eightieth (2025) has no validated written record at all: it was transcribed by machine from the official simultaneous interpretation, so those pages carry one rendering of an interpreter's rendering and are labelled as such.
Longest statements on record
| Speaker | State | Year | Words |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mr. Krishna MENON | India | 1960 | 22,003 |
| Mr. CASTRO | Cuba | 1960 | 21,777 |
| Mr. VYSHINSKY | Russia | 1951 | 19,045 |
| Mr. Sékou Touré | Guinea | 1962 | 18,952 |
| Mr. Menon | India | 1955 | 18,053 |
| Mr. KHRUSHCHEV | Russia | 1960 | 17,943 |
| Mr. Krishna Benon | India | 1959 | 17,526 |
| Mr. MENON | India | 1954 | 17,178 |
| Mr. GROMYKO | Russia | 1958 | 16,872 |
| Mr. Menon | India | 1953 | 16,080 |
By session
| Session | Year | Statements | Median words | Text from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 80 | 2025 | 190 | 1,967 | audio transcription |
| 79 | 2024 | 192 | 1,841 | delegation pdf |
| 78 | 2023 | 192 | 1,968 | official transcript |
| 77 | 2022 | 193 | 2,062 | official transcript |
| 76 | 2021 | 194 | 2,011 | official transcript |
| 75 | 2020 | 193 | 1,796 | official transcript |
| 74 | 2019 | 195 | 2,071 | official transcript |
| 73 | 2018 | 196 | 2,020 | official transcript |
| 72 | 2017 | 196 | 1,897 | official transcript |
| 71 | 2016 | 194 | 1,906 | official transcript |
| 70 | 2015 | 193 | 1,915 | official transcript |
| 69 | 2014 | 194 | 1,943 | official transcript |
| 68 | 2013 | 193 | 2,006 | official transcript |
| 67 | 2012 | 195 | 1,955 | official transcript |
| 66 | 2011 | 194 | 1,854 | official transcript |
| 65 | 2010 | 189 | 1,788 | official transcript |
| 64 | 2009 | 193 | 1,889 | official transcript |
| 63 | 2008 | 192 | 1,783 | official transcript |
| 62 | 2007 | 191 | 1,818 | official transcript |
| 61 | 2006 | 193 | 1,792 | official transcript |
| 60 | 2005 | 185 | 1,762 | official transcript |
| 59 | 2004 | 192 | 1,921 | official transcript |
| 58 | 2003 | 189 | 1,861 | official transcript |
| 57 | 2002 | 188 | 1,813 | official transcript |
| 56 | 2001 | 189 | 1,956 | official transcript |
| 55 | 2000 | 178 | 2,304 | official transcript |
| 54 | 1999 | 181 | 2,609 | official transcript |
| 53 | 1998 | 181 | 2,546 | official transcript |
| 52 | 1997 | 176 | 2,650 | official transcript |
| 51 | 1996 | 181 | 2,623 | official transcript |
| 50 | 1995 | 172 | 2,682 | official transcript |
| 49 | 1994 | 178 | 2,875 | official transcript |
| 48 | 1993 | 175 | 2,971 | official transcript |
| 47 | 1992 | 167 | 2,926 | official transcript |
| 46 | 1991 | 162 | 2,964 | official transcript |
| 45 | 1990 | 156 | 2,934 | official transcript |
| 44 | 1989 | 153 | 3,408 | official transcript |
| 43 | 1988 | 154 | 3,367 | official transcript |
| 42 | 1987 | 152 | 3,287 | official transcript |
| 41 | 1986 | 149 | 3,483 | official transcript |
| 40 | 1985 | 137 | 3,877 | official transcript |
| 39 | 1984 | 149 | 4,001 | official transcript |
| 38 | 1983 | 149 | 3,737 | official transcript |
| 37 | 1982 | 147 | 3,901 | official transcript |
| 36 | 1981 | 145 | 3,834 | official transcript |
| 35 | 1980 | 149 | 3,867 | official transcript |
| 34 | 1979 | 144 | 3,919 | official transcript |
| 33 | 1978 | 141 | 3,863 | official transcript |
| 32 | 1977 | 140 | 3,776 | official transcript |
| 31 | 1976 | 134 | 3,849 | official transcript |
| 30 | 1975 | 126 | 3,779 | official transcript |
| 29 | 1974 | 129 | 3,928 | official transcript |
| 28 | 1973 | 120 | 3,913 | official transcript |
| 27 | 1972 | 125 | 3,763 | official transcript |
| 26 | 1971 | 116 | 3,816 | official transcript |
| 25 | 1970 | 70 | 3,899 | official transcript |
| 24 | 1969 | 116 | 3,794 | official transcript |
| 23 | 1968 | 112 | 3,889 | official transcript |
| 22 | 1967 | 110 | 3,658 | official transcript |
| 21 | 1966 | 108 | 4,037 | official transcript |
| 20 | 1965 | 101 | 3,916 | official transcript |
| 19 | 1964 | 95 | 4,027 | official transcript |
| 18 | 1963 | 97 | 4,142 | official transcript |
| 17 | 1962 | 92 | 4,234 | official transcript |
| 16 | 1961 | 81 | 4,612 | official transcript |
| 15 | 1960 | 79 | 4,785 | official transcript |
| 14 | 1959 | 79 | 3,962 | official transcript |
| 13 | 1958 | 72 | 3,586 | official transcript |
| 12 | 1957 | 71 | 3,048 | official transcript |
| 11 | 1956 | 66 | 3,293 | official transcript |
| 10 | 1955 | 45 | 3,287 | official transcript |
| 9 | 1954 | 42 | 3,568 | official transcript |
| 8 | 1953 | 44 | 3,675 | official transcript |
| 7 | 1952 | 43 | 3,540 | official transcript |
| 6 | 1951 | 51 | 2,757 | official transcript |
| 5 | 1950 | 44 | 2,670 | official transcript |
| 4 | 1949 | 35 | 2,444 | official transcript |
| 3 | 1948 | 39 | 2,551 | official transcript |
| 2 | 1947 | 39 | 2,102 | official transcript |
| 1 | 1946 | 39 | 1,793 | official transcript |