General Debate
Session 55, 2000
178 statements, median length 2,316 words.
| State | Speaker | Post | Words |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afghanistan | Abdullah Abdullah | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,873 |
| Albania | Paskal Milo | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,228 |
| Algeria | Abdelaziz Belkhadem | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,814 |
| Andorra | Juli Minoves-Triquell | UN Representative | 2,918 |
| Angola | Joio Bernardo de Miranda | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,526 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | Patrick Albert Lewis | UN Representative | 1,581 |
| Argentina | Enrique Candioti | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,022 |
| Armenia | Vartan Oskanian | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,894 |
| Australia | Alexander Downer | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,618 |
| Austria | Benita Ferrero-Waldner | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,446 |
| Azerbaijan | Eldar G. Kouliev | UN Representative | 2,039 |
| Bahrain | Jassim Mohammed Buallay | UN Representative | 3,213 |
| Bangladesh | Al-Haj Abdus Samad Azad | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,685 |
| Barbados | Billie Miller | Deputy Prime Minister | 3,287 |
| Belarus | Ural Latypov | Deputy Prime Minister | 1,736 |
| Belgium | Louis Michel | Deputy Prime Minister | 2,948 |
| Belize | John Briceño | Deputy Prime Minister | 1,580 |
| Benin | Joël Wassi Adechi | UN Representative | 990 |
| Bolivia | Fernando Messmer Trigo | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,638 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | Jadranko Prlić | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,514 |
| Botswana | Lt-Gen Merafhe | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,901 |
| Brazil | Luiz Felipe Palmeira Lampreia | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,406 |
| Brunei | Prince Mohamed Bolkiah | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 802 |
| Bulgaria | Nadezhda Mihailova | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,361 |
| Burkina Faso | Youssouf Ouedraogo | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,579 |
| Burundi | Marc Nteturuye | UN Representative | 3,125 |
| Cambodia | Hor Namhong | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,174 |
| Canada | Lloyd Axworthy | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,787 |
| Cape Verde | Rui Alberto de Figueiredo Soares | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,428 |
| Central African Republic | Marcel Metefara | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,348 |
| Chad | Mahamat Saleh Annadif | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,980 |
| Chile | Soledad Alvear Valenzuela | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,647 |
| Colombia | Guillermo Fernandez de Soto | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,217 |
| Comoros | Souef Mohamed El-Amine | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,669 |
| Costa Rica | Roberto Rojas López | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,831 |
| Croatia | Tonino Picula | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 4,368 |
| Cuba | Felipe Pérez Roque | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,286 |
| Cyprus | Ioannis Kasoulides | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,190 |
| Czech Republic | Jab Kavan | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,087 |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | Yerodia Abdoulaye Ndombasi | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,232 |
| Djibouti | Ismail Omar Guelleh | President | 3,407 |
| Dominica | Roosevelt Douglas | Prime Minister | 2,142 |
| Dominican Republic | Hugo Tolentino Dipp | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,860 |
| Ecuador | Paulina Garcia de Larrea | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,380 |
| Egypt | Amre Moussa | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,796 |
| El Salvador | Mara Eugenia Brizuela de ¡vila | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,119 |
| Equatorial Guinea | Narciso Ntugu Abeso Oyana | UN Representative | 1,770 |
| Eritrea | Haile Weldensae | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,888 |
| Estonia | Toomas Hendrik Ilves | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 997 |
| Eswatini | Clifford Mamba | UN Representative | 1,741 |
| Ethiopia | Seyom Mesfin | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,770 |
| Federated States of Micronesia | Masao Nakayama | UN Representative | 1,610 |
| Fiji | Laisenia Qarase | Prime Minister | 2,361 |
| Finland | Marjatta Rasi | UN Representative | 2,584 |
| France | Hubert Vedrine | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,772 |
| Gabon | Jean Ping | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,077 |
| Georgia | Irakli Menagarishvili | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,831 |
| Germany | Joschka Fischer | Deputy Prime Minister | 2,278 |
| Ghana | James Victor Gbeho | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,938 |
| Greece | George Papandreou | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,137 |
| Grenada | Elvin Nimrod | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,476 |
| Guatemala | Juan Francisco Reyes López | Vice-President | 2,359 |
| Guinea | Camara Hadja Mahawa Bangoura | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,855 |
| Guinea-Bissau | Iaia Djalo | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,166 |
| Guyana | Clément Rohee | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,799 |
| Haiti | Fritz Longchamp | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,752 |
| Honduras | Roberto Flores Berm˙dez | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,700 |
| Hungary | Janos Martonyi | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,569 |
| Iceland | Halldór ÁsgrImsson | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,162 |
| India | Jaswant Singh | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,659 |
| Indonesia | Alwi Shihab | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,756 |
| Iran | Kamal Kharrazi | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,135 |
| Iraq | Mohammed Said Al-Sahaf | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,038 |
| Ireland | Brian Cowen | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,171 |
| Israel | Shlomo Ben-Ami | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,678 |
| Italy | Lamberto Dini | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,070 |
| Ivory Coast | Charles Providence Gomis | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,592 |
| Jamaica | Paul Robertson | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,280 |
| Japan | Yohei Kono | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,284 |
| Jordan | Abdul Ilah El-Khatib | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,761 |
| Kazakhstan | Erlan Idrissov | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,316 |
| Kenya | Bonaya Adhi Godana | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,619 |
| Kingdom of Denmark | Niels Helveg Petersen | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,712 |
| Kingdom of the Netherlands | Jozias van Aartsen | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,113 |
| Kuwait | Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah | Deputy Prime Minister | 3,959 |
| Kyrgyzstan | Elmira Ibraimova | UN Representative | 1,916 |
| Laos | Somsavat Lengsavad | Deputy Prime Minister | 1,592 |
| Latvia | Indulis Bērziņö | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 930 |
| Lebanon | Selim El-Hoss | Head of Government | 2,913 |
| Lesotho | Motsoahae Thomas Thabane | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,550 |
| Liberia | Monie Captan | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,574 |
| Libya | Abdurrahman Shalghem | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,525 |
| Liechtenstein | Andrea Willi | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,116 |
| Lithuania | Oskaras Jusys | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,081 |
| Luxembourg | Hubert Wurth | UN Representative | 2,803 |
| Madagascar | Lila Ratsifandrihamanana | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,898 |
| Malawi | Lilian Patel | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,611 |
| Malaysia | Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,619 |
| Maldives | Hussain Shihab | UN Representative | 2,125 |
| Mali | Modibo Sidibé | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,230 |
| Malta | Joseph Borg | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,134 |
| Marshall Islands | Jackeo Relang | UN Representative | 1,931 |
| Mauritania | Ahmed Ould Sid Ahmed | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,574 |
| Mauritius | Anil Kumarsingh Gayan | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,652 |
| Mexico | Rosario Green | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,765 |
| Moldova | Nicolae Tabacaru | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,989 |
| Monaco | Patrick Leclercq | Prime Minister | 1,812 |
| Mongolia | Luvsangiin Erdenechuluun | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,312 |
| Morocco | Mohamed Benaissa | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,220 |
| Myanmar | Win Aung | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,618 |
| Namibia | Theo-Ben Gurirab | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 4,764 |
| Nauru | Vinci Niel Clodumar | UN Representative | 3,095 |
| Nepal | Chakra Prasad Bastola | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,684 |
| New Zealand | Phil Goff | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,270 |
| Nicaragua | José Adán Guerra | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,229 |
| Niger | Ousmane Moutari | UN Representative | 2,435 |
| Nigeria | Alhaji Sule Lamido | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,529 |
| North Korea | Li Hyong Chol | UN Representative | 2,251 |
| North Macedonia | Aleksandar Dimitrov | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,966 |
| Norway | Thorbjorn Jagland | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,237 |
| Oman | Yousef Bin Al-Alawi Bin Adbulla | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,421 |
| Pakistan | Abdul Sattar | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,288 |
| Palau | Hersey Kyota | UN Representative | 1,280 |
| Panama | José Miguel Alemán Healy | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,889 |
| Papua New Guinea | John Kaputin | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,520 |
| Paraguay | Juan Esteban Aguirre Mart'nez | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,801 |
| People's Republic of China | Tang Jiaxuan | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,883 |
| Peru | Fernando De Trazegnies Granda | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,293 |
| Philippines | Domingo Siazon | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,677 |
| Poland | Wladyslaw Bartoszewski | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,937 |
| Portugal | Jaime Gama | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,328 |
| Qatar | Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser | UN Representative | 3,038 |
| Republic of the Congo | Rodolphe Adada | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,420 |
| Romania | Petre Roman | Deputy Prime Minister | 2,505 |
| Russia | Igor Ivanov | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,438 |
| Rwanda | Joseph Mutaboba | UN Representative | 3,089 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | Sam Condor | Deputy Prime Minister | 1,990 |
| Saint Lucia | George Odlum | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,778 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | Allan Cruickshank | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,818 |
| San Marino | Gabriele Gatti | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 985 |
| Saudi Arabia | Nizar Obaid Madani | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,474 |
| Senegal | Tidiane Gadio | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,269 |
| Sierra Leone | Sama Banya | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,183 |
| Singapore | Shunmugam Jayakumar | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,213 |
| Slovakia | Eduard Kukan | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,875 |
| Slovenia | Alojz Peterle | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,279 |
| Solomon Islands | Danny Philip | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,444 |
| Somalia | Abdikassim Salad Hassan | President | 1,412 |
| South Africa | Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,381 |
| South Korea | Lee Joung-binn | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,872 |
| Spain | Josep Piqué | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,173 |
| Sri Lanka | Lakshman Kadirgamar | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 4,572 |
| State of Palestine | Nasser Al-Kidwa | UN Representative | 3,265 |
| Sudan | Mustafa Osman Ismail | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,228 |
| Suriname | Maria Levens | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,507 |
| Sweden | Anna Lindh | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,592 |
| Syria | Farouk Al-Shara' | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,965 |
| Tajikistan | Rashid Alimov | UN Representative | 2,102 |
| Tanzania | Hassan Kibelloh | UN Representative | 2,367 |
| Thailand | Surin Pitsuwan | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,047 |
| The Bahamas | Janet Bostwick | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,924 |
| The Gambia | Momodou Lamin Sedat Jobe | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,902 |
| Togo | Gnassingbe Eyadema | President | 1,834 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | Ralph Maraj | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,217 |
| Tunisia | Habib Ben Yahia | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,541 |
| Turkey | Ismail Cem | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,692 |
| Turkmenistan | Aksoltan Ataeva | UN Representative | 1,710 |
| Uganda | Ralph Ochan | UN Representative | 3,086 |
| Ukraine | Borys Tarasyuk | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,144 |
| United Arab Emirates | Rashid Abdullah Al-Noaimi | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,711 |
| United Kingdom | Robin Cook | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,993 |
| United States | Madeleine Korbel Albright | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,449 |
| Uruguay | Didier Opertti | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,443 |
| Vanuatu | Alfred Carlot | UN Representative | 2,121 |
| Venezuela | Ignacio Arcaya | UN Representative | 1,261 |
| Vietnam | Nguyen Dy Nien | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,633 |
| Yemen | Abdalla Saleh Al-Ashtal | UN Representative | 1,527 |
| Zimbabwe | Stanislaus Mudenge | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,373 |