General Debate
Session 53, 1998
181 statements, median length 2,546 words.
| State | Speaker | Post | Words |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afghanistan | Abdullah Abdullah | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,385 |
| Albania | Paskal Milo | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,759 |
| Algeria | Ahmed Attaf | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,353 |
| Andorra | Albert Pintat-Santolària | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,578 |
| Angola | João Bernardo Miranda | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,185 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | Patrick Albert Lewis | UN Representative | 2,546 |
| Argentina | Guido di Tella | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,209 |
| Armenia | Robert Kocharian | President | 1,420 |
| Australia | Penelope Anne Wensley | UN Representative | 3,347 |
| Austria | Wolfgang Schüssel | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 6,723 |
| Azerbaijan | Tofik Zulfugarov | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,030 |
| Bahrain | Shaikh Mohamed Bin Mubarak Al-Khalifa | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,153 |
| Bangladesh | Abdus Samad Azad | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,635 |
| Barbados | Carlston Boucher | UN Representative | 2,401 |
| Belarus | Ivan Antonovich | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,541 |
| Belgium | Erik Derycke | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,678 |
| Belize | Said Musa | Prime Minister | 1,666 |
| Benin | Kolawole Idji | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,062 |
| Bhutan | Jigmi Yoser Thinley | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,607 |
| Bolivia | Murillo de la Rocha | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,693 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | Jadranko Prlic | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,800 |
| Botswana | Festus Mogae | President | 2,302 |
| Brazil | Luiz Felipe Lampreia | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,947 |
| Brunei | Prince Mohamed Bolkiah | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 735 |
| Bulgaria | Nadezhda Mihailova | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,155 |
| Burkina Faso | Blaise Compaoré | President | 2,163 |
| Burundi | Pierre Buyoya | President | 2,058 |
| Cameroon | Augustin Kontchou Kouomegni | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,058 |
| Canada | Lloyd Axworthy | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,678 |
| Cape Verde | José Luis Jesus | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,295 |
| Central African Republic | Chief Antonio Deinde Fernandez | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,710 |
| Chad | Mahamat Saleh Annadif | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,145 |
| Chile | José Miguel Insulza | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,720 |
| Colombia | Andrés Pastrana Arango | President | 2,649 |
| Comoros | Salim Hadji Himidi | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,256 |
| Costa Rica | Roberto Rojas | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,298 |
| Croatia | Mate Granic | Deputy Prime Minister | 2,675 |
| Cuba | Roberto Robaina González | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 4,800 |
| Cyprus | Glafcos Clerides | President | 2,852 |
| Czech Republic | Jan Kavan | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,504 |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | Jean-Charles Okoto Lolakombe | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,946 |
| Djibouti | Hassan Gouled Aptidon | President | 3,403 |
| Dominica | Edison C. James | Prime Minister | 1,245 |
| Dominican Republic | Eduardo Latorre | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,125 |
| Ecuador | Jamil Mahuad Witt | President | 2,109 |
| Egypt | Amre Moussa | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 4,018 |
| El Salvador | Armando Calderón Sol | President | 1,747 |
| Equatorial Guinea | Miguel Oyono Ndong Mifumu | Deputy Prime Minister | 1,896 |
| Eritrea | Haile Weldensae | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,284 |
| Estonia | Indrek Tarand | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,112 |
| Eswatini | Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini | Prime Minister | 3,253 |
| Ethiopia | Seyoum Mesfin | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,777 |
| Federated States of Micronesia | Jacob Nena | President | 3,249 |
| Fiji | Taufa Vakatale | Deputy Prime Minister | 2,707 |
| Finland | Tarja Halonen | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,531 |
| France | Hubert Védrine | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,219 |
| Gabon | Casimir Oye Mba | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,493 |
| Georgia | Irakli Menagarishvili | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,853 |
| Germany | Klaus Kinkel | Deputy Prime Minister | 3,341 |
| Ghana | Jerry John Rawlings | President | 2,402 |
| Greece | Theodoros Pangalos | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,086 |
| Grenada | Robert Millette | UN Representative | 2,224 |
| Guatemala | Eduardo Stein Barillas | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,219 |
| Guinea | Lamime Kamara | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,471 |
| Guinea-Bissau | Delfim da Silva | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,857 |
| Guyana | Janet Jagan | President | 1,932 |
| Haiti | Fritz Longchamp | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,931 |
| Honduras | Carlos Roberto Flores Facusée | President | 3,301 |
| Hungary | János Martonyi | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,112 |
| Iceland | Halldór Ásgr'msson | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,786 |
| India | Atal Behari Vajpayee | Prime Minister | 2,896 |
| Indonesia | Ali Alatas | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,025 |
| Iran | Seyed Mohammad Khatami | President | 3,748 |
| Iraq | Mohammed Said Al-Sahaf | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,037 |
| Ireland | David Andrews | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 4,184 |
| Israel | Benjamin Netanyahu | Prime Minister | 2,852 |
| Italy | Lamberto Dini | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,256 |
| Ivory Coast | Amara Essy | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,944 |
| Jamaica | Seymour Mullings | Deputy Prime Minister | 3,033 |
| Japan | Keizo Obuchi | Prime Minister | 2,774 |
| Jordan | Abdel-Elah Khatib | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,144 |
| Kazakhstan | Kassymjomart Tokaev | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,088 |
| Kenya | Bonaya Adhi Godana | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,014 |
| Kingdom of Denmark | Niels Helveg Petersen | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,383 |
| Kingdom of the Netherlands | Jozias van Aartsen | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,083 |
| Kuwait | Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah | Deputy Prime Minister | 3,490 |
| Kyrgyzstan | Muratbek Imanaliev | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,382 |
| Laos | Somsavat Lengsavad | Deputy Prime Minister | 1,556 |
| Latvia | Guntis Ulmanis | President | 1,291 |
| Lebanon | Rafic Hariri | Prime Minister | 3,081 |
| Lesotho | Thomas Motsoahae Thabane | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,695 |
| Liberia | Monie R. Captan | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,114 |
| Libya | Abuzed Omar Dorda | UN Representative | 5,854 |
| Liechtenstein | Andrea Willi | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,662 |
| Lithuania | Valdas Adamkus | President | 2,035 |
| Luxembourg | Jacques Poos | Deputy Prime Minister | 2,790 |
| Madagascar | Lila Hanitra Ratsifandrihamanana | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,823 |
| Malawi | Mapopa Chipeta | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,657 |
| Malaysia | Abdullah bin Haji Ahmad Badawi | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,172 |
| Maldives | Fathulla Jameel | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,415 |
| Mali | Mr. Modibo | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,614 |
| Malta | Guido de Marco | Deputy Prime Minister | 4,170 |
| Mauritania | Sheik El Avia Ould Mohamed Khouna | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,104 |
| Mauritius | Navinchandra Ramgoolam | Prime Minister | 2,210 |
| Mexico | Rosario Green | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,317 |
| Moldova | Petru Lucinschi | President | 2,189 |
| Monaco | Prince Albert | Head of State | 3,384 |
| Mongolia | Rinchinnyamyn Amarjargal | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,106 |
| Morocco | Abdellatif Filali | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,927 |
| Mozambique | Leonardo Santos Simão | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,916 |
| Myanmar | Ohn Gyaw | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,566 |
| Namibia | Theo-Ben Gurirab | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,458 |
| Nepal | Shailaja Acharya | Deputy Prime Minister | 2,098 |
| New Zealand | Donald Charles McKinnon | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,713 |
| Nicaragua | Arnoldo Alemán Lacayo | President | 1,694 |
| Niger | Ibrahim Maïnassara Baré | President | 2,251 |
| Nigeria | Abdulsalami Abubakar | Head of State | 2,375 |
| North Korea | Choe Su Hon | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,426 |
| North Macedonia | Blagoj Handziski | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,504 |
| Norway | Knut Vollebek | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,324 |
| Oman | Yousef Bin Alawi Bin Abdullah | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,661 |
| Pakistan | Mohammad Nawaz Sharif | Prime Minister | 2,613 |
| Panama | Aquilino Boyd | UN Representative | 2,121 |
| Papua New Guinea | William Skate | Prime Minister | 3,289 |
| Paraguay | Raúl Cubas Grau | President | 1,716 |
| People's Republic of China | Tang Jiaxuan | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,457 |
| Peru | Eduardo Ferrero Costa | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,030 |
| Philippines | Domingo Siazon | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,659 |
| Poland | Bronislaw Geremek | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,012 |
| Portugal | Jaime Gama | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,101 |
| Qatar | Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabr Al-Thani | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,748 |
| Republic of the Congo | Rodolphe Adada | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,790 |
| Romania | Andrei Gabriel Plesu | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,237 |
| Russia | Igor Ivanov | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,727 |
| Rwanda | Anastase Gasana | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,142 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | Denzil Douglas | Prime Minister | 2,682 |
| Saint Lucia | George Odlum | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,167 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | Allan Cruickshank | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,574 |
| Samoa | Tuiloma Neroni Slade | UN Representative | 2,553 |
| San Marino | Gabriele Gatti | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,266 |
| Saudi Arabia | Nizar O. Madani | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,523 |
| Senegal | Jacques Baudin | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,460 |
| Seychelles | James Michel | Vice-President | 1,912 |
| Sierra Leone | Sama Banya | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,949 |
| Singapore | Shanmugam Jayakumar | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,731 |
| Slovakia | Zdenka Kramplová | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,882 |
| Slovenia | Janez Drnovsek | Prime Minister | 1,745 |
| Solomon Islands | Edmond Andresen | Deputy Prime Minister | 2,056 |
| South Africa | Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela | President | 2,521 |
| South Korea | Hong Soon-young | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,826 |
| Spain | Abel Matutes | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,128 |
| Sri Lanka | Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga | President | 4,148 |
| State of Palestine | Yasser Arafat | President | 3,608 |
| Sudan | Mustafa Osman Ismaiel | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,791 |
| Suriname | Jules Wijdenbosch | President | 1,355 |
| Sweden | Lena Hjelm-Wallén | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,589 |
| Syria | Farouk Al-Shara | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,381 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | Domingos Augusto Ferreira | UN Representative | 1,219 |
| Tajikistan | Talbak Nazarov | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,414 |
| Tanzania | Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 4,852 |
| Thailand | Surin Pitsuwan | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,933 |
| The Bahamas | Janet Bostwick | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,101 |
| The Gambia | Momodou Lamin Sedat Jobe | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 4,401 |
| Togo | Joseph Kokou Koffigoh | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,651 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | George Winston McKenzie | UN Representative | 3,243 |
| Tunisia | Saïd Ben Mustapha | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,638 |
| Turkey | Mesut Yilmaz | Prime Minister | 2,343 |
| Turkmenistan | Boris Shikhmuradov | Deputy Prime Minister | 1,942 |
| Uganda | Eriya Kategaya | Deputy Prime Minister | 2,228 |
| Ukraine | Borys Tarasyuk | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,293 |
| United Arab Emirates | Abdullah Al-Noaimi | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,133 |
| United Kingdom | Tony Blair | Prime Minister | 2,559 |
| United States | Bill Clinton | President | 2,654 |
| Uruguay | Julio Maria Sanguinetti | President | 2,319 |
| Uzbekistan | Alisher Vohidov | UN Representative | 1,582 |
| Vanuatu | Donald Kalpokas | Prime Minister | 1,665 |
| Venezuela | Rafael Caldera | President | 1,979 |
| Vietnam | Nguyen Manh Cam | Deputy Prime Minister | 2,987 |
| Yemen | Abul-Qader Ba-Jammal | Deputy Prime Minister | 1,862 |
| Zambia | Keli Walubita | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,517 |
| Zimbabwe | Isack Mudenge | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,820 |