General Debate
Session 58, 2003
189 statements, median length 1,861 words.
| State | Speaker | Post | Words |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afghanistan | Hâmid Karzai | President | 1,617 |
| Albania | Alfred Moisiu | President | 1,545 |
| Algeria | Abdelaziz Bouteflika | President | 1,597 |
| Andorra | Marc Forné Molné | Prime Minister | 1,842 |
| Angola | João Bernardo de Miranda | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,929 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | Patrick Albert Lewis | UN Representative | 2,451 |
| Argentina | Néstor Carlos Kirchner | President | 1,882 |
| Armenia | Vartan Oskanian | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,675 |
| Australia | Alexander Downer | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,625 |
| Austria | Benita Ferrero-Waldner | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,055 |
| Azerbaijan | Ilham Heydar Aliyev | Prime Minister | 1,798 |
| Bahrain | Shaikh Mohammed bin Mubarak Al-Khalifa | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,264 |
| Bangladesh | Morshed Khan | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,905 |
| Barbados | Billie Miller | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,237 |
| Belarus | Sergei Martynov | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,046 |
| Belgium | Louis Michel | Deputy Prime Minister | 2,193 |
| Belize | Godfrey Smith | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 840 |
| Benin | Rogatien Biaou | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,569 |
| Bhutan | Lyonpo Khandu Wangchuk | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 821 |
| Bolivia | Carlos Mesa Gisbert | Vice-President | 1,905 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | Dragan Cović | President | 2,270 |
| Botswana | Mompati S. Merafhe | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,839 |
| Brazil | Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva | President | 2,495 |
| Brunei | Prince Mohamed Bolkiah | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,186 |
| Bulgaria | Simeon de Saxe-Coburg-Gotha | Prime Minister | 1,296 |
| Burkina Faso | Blaise Compaore | President | 1,623 |
| Burundi | Domitien Ndayizeye | President | 2,285 |
| Cambodia | Hor Namhong | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,864 |
| Cameroon | Martin Belinga-Eboutou | UN Representative | 1,940 |
| Canada | Jean Chrétien | Prime Minister | 1,555 |
| Cape Verde | Maria de Fátima Lima Veiga | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,080 |
| Central African Republic | Fernand Poukré-Kono | UN Representative | 1,190 |
| Chad | Nagoum Yamassoum | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,538 |
| Chile | Soledad Alvear Valenzuela | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,551 |
| Colombia | Alvaro Uribe Vélez | President | 2,468 |
| Comoros | Azali Assoumani | President | 1,730 |
| Costa Rica | Linnette Saboro | Vice-President | 1,633 |
| Croatia | Stjepan Mesić | President | 2,043 |
| Cuba | Felipe Perez Roque | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,996 |
| Cyprus | Tassos Papadopoulos | President | 1,930 |
| Czech Republic | Cyril Svoboda | Deputy Prime Minister | 2,336 |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | Joseph Kabila | President | 1,294 |
| Dominica | Pierre Charles | Prime Minister | 2,666 |
| Dominican Republic | Francisco Guerrero Prats | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,375 |
| Ecuador | Lucio Gutiérrez Borbúa | President | 1,861 |
| Egypt | Maher El Sayed | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,801 |
| El Salvador | Francisco Guillermo Flores Pérez | President | 1,557 |
| Equatorial Guinea | Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo | President | 1,074 |
| Eritrea | Ali Said Abdella | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,277 |
| Estonia | Arnold Rüütel | President | 1,841 |
| Eswatini | Clifford Mamba | UN Representative | 1,771 |
| Ethiopia | Seyoum Mesfin | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,675 |
| Federated States of Micronesia | Joseph Urusemal | President | 2,574 |
| Fiji | Keliopate Tavola | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,459 |
| Finland | Marjatta Rasi | UN Representative | 1,412 |
| France | Jacques Chirac | President | 1,761 |
| Gabon | Jean Ping | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,115 |
| Georgia | Irakli Menagarishvili | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,728 |
| Germany | Gerhard Schroeder | Prime Minister | 1,601 |
| Ghana | John Agyekum Kufuor | President | 1,660 |
| Greece | George A. Papandreou | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,579 |
| Grenada | Elvin Nimrod | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,676 |
| Guatemala | Alfonso Portillo Cabrera | President | 2,154 |
| Guinea | François Lonsény Fall | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,417 |
| Guinea-Bissau | Alfredo Cabral | UN Representative | 2,038 |
| Guyana | Bharrat Jagdeo | President | 1,394 |
| Haiti | Jean-Bertrand Aristide | President | 1,194 |
| Honduras | Ricardo Maduro Joest | President | 2,154 |
| Hungary | Lászlo Kovács | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,229 |
| Iceland | Halldir Ásgrimsson | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,584 |
| India | Atal Behari Vajpayee | Prime Minister | 2,063 |
| Indonesia | Megawati Soekarnoputri | President | 1,564 |
| Iran | Kamal Kharrazi | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,887 |
| Iraq | Ahmad Chalabi | UN Representative | 2,907 |
| Ireland | Bertie Ahern | Prime Minister | 3,777 |
| Israel | Silvan Shalom | Deputy Prime Minister | 2,226 |
| Italy | Silvio Berlusconi | Prime Minister | 2,497 |
| Ivory Coast | Mamadou Bamba | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,510 |
| Jamaica | James Patterson | Prime Minister | 2,601 |
| Japan | Yoriko Kawaguchi | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,775 |
| Jordan | Marwan Muasher | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,751 |
| Kazakhstan | Kassymzhomart Tokaev | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,774 |
| Kenya | Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,067 |
| Kingdom of Denmark | Per Stig Moeller | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,509 |
| Kingdom of the Netherlands | Jaap de Hoop Scheffer | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,648 |
| Kiribati | Natan Teewe | Deputy Prime Minister | 1,313 |
| Kuwait | Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah | Prime Minister | 2,568 |
| Kyrgyzstan | Askar Akayev | President | 1,568 |
| Laos | Somsavat Lengsavad | Deputy Prime Minister | 1,387 |
| Latvia | Vaira Vike-Freiberga | President | 1,671 |
| Lebanon | Jean Obeid | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,119 |
| Lesotho | Pakalitha Bethuel Mosisili | Prime Minister | 2,153 |
| Liberia | Lewis Brown | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,956 |
| Liechtenstein | Ernst Walch | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,294 |
| Lithuania | Antanas Valionis | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 988 |
| Luxembourg | Jean-Marc Hoscheit | UN Representative | 2,588 |
| Madagascar | Marc Ravalomanana | President | 1,407 |
| Malawi | Henry Chimunthu Banda | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,691 |
| Malaysia | Dato’ Seri Mahathir Mohamad | Prime Minister | 1,408 |
| Maldives | Fathulla Jameel | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,872 |
| Mali | Lassana Traore | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,343 |
| Malta | Edward Fenech Adami | Prime Minister | 2,181 |
| Marshall Islands | Alfred Capelle | UN Representative | 1,396 |
| Mauritania | Mohamed Ould Tolba | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,438 |
| Mauritius | Anerood Jugnauth | Prime Minister | 2,480 |
| Mexico | Vicente Fox | President | 1,861 |
| Moldova | Vladimir Voronin | President | 1,335 |
| Monaco | Patrick Leclercq | Head of Government | 1,407 |
| Mongolia | Natsagiin Bagabandi | President | 1,812 |
| Morocco | Mohammed VI | Head of State | 1,284 |
| Mozambique | Joaquim Alberto Chissano | President | 2,270 |
| Myanmar | Win Aung | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,639 |
| Namibia | Hidipo Hamutenya | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,638 |
| Nauru | Vinci Niel Clodumar | UN Representative | 2,650 |
| Nepal | Bhekh Bahadur Thapa | UN Representative | 2,173 |
| New Zealand | Phil Goff | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,733 |
| Nicaragua | Enrique Bolaños Geyer | President | 1,592 |
| Niger | Aïchatou Mindaoudou | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,148 |
| Nigeria | Olusegun Obasanjo | President | 2,369 |
| North Korea | Choe Su Hon | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,935 |
| North Macedonia | Boris Trajkovski | President | 1,583 |
| Norway | Jan Petersen | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,822 |
| Oman | Yousef Bin Al-Alawi Bin Abdulla | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,783 |
| Pakistan | Pervez Musharraf | President | 1,797 |
| Palau | Sandra Pierantozzi | Vice-President | 1,124 |
| Panama | Harmodio Arias | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,902 |
| Papua New Guinea | Rabbie Namaliu | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,302 |
| Paraguay | Nicanor Duarte Frutos | President | 1,385 |
| People's Republic of China | Li Zhaoxing | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,163 |
| Peru | Alejandro Toledo Manrique | President | 1,395 |
| Philippines | Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo | President | 1,215 |
| Poland | Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,003 |
| Portugal | José Durão Barroso | Prime Minister | 1,919 |
| Qatar | Sheik Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabr Al-Thani | Deputy Prime Minister | 1,913 |
| Republic of the Congo | Rodolphe Adada | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,715 |
| Romania | Mircea Geoana | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,982 |
| Russia | Vladimir V. Putin | President | 2,196 |
| Rwanda | Bernard Makuza | Prime Minister | 2,068 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | Timothy Harris | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,762 |
| Saint Lucia | Kenny Davis Anthony | Prime Minister | 2,340 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | Louis Straker | Deputy Prime Minister | 1,799 |
| Samoa | Sailele Malielegaoi | Prime Minister | 1,329 |
| San Marino | Fiorenzo Stolfi | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,815 |
| Saudi Arabia | Prince Saud Al-Faisal | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,880 |
| Senegal | Abdoulaye Wade | President | 2,886 |
| Seychelles | Claude Morel | UN Representative | 1,756 |
| Sierra Leone | Solomon Ekuma Dominic Berewa | Vice-President | 1,696 |
| Singapore | S. Jayakumar | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,025 |
| Slovakia | Klára Novotná | UN Representative | 1,715 |
| Slovenia | Janez Drnovšek | President | 1,472 |
| Solomon Islands | Laurie Chan | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,805 |
| Somalia | Ahmed Abdi Hashi | UN Representative | 1,656 |
| South Africa | Thabo Mbeki | President | 2,702 |
| South Korea | Yoon Young-kwan | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,962 |
| Spain | José Maria Aznar | Prime Minister | 1,086 |
| Sri Lanka | Ranil Wickremesinghe | Prime Minister | 1,895 |
| State of Palestine | Farouk Kaddoumi | UN Representative | 2,060 |
| Sudan | Mustafa Osman Ismail | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,321 |
| Suriname | Maria Levens | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,104 |
| Sweden | Jan Karlsson | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,835 |
| Switzerland | Pascal Couchepin | President | 1,479 |
| Syria | Farouk Al-Shara' | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,577 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | Mateus Meira Rita | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,315 |
| Tajikistan | Emomali Rakhmonov | President | 3,227 |
| Tanzania | Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,562 |
| Thailand | Surakiart Sathirathai | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,234 |
| The Bahamas | Frederick Mitchell | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,185 |
| The Gambia | Baboucarr-Blaise Ismaila Jagne | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 4,592 |
| Timor-Leste | Mari Alkatiri | Prime Minister | 3,941 |
| Togo | Kokou Tozoun | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,533 |
| Tonga | Prince Ulukalala Lavaka Ata | Prime Minister | 1,389 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | Knowlson Gift | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,965 |
| Tunisia | Habib Ben Yahia | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,580 |
| Turkey | Abdullah Gül | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,769 |
| Tuvalu | Saufatu Sopoanga | Prime Minister | 1,988 |
| Uganda | James Wapakhabulo | Deputy Prime Minister | 1,331 |
| Ukraine | Leonid Kuchma | President | 1,330 |
| United Arab Emirates | Rashid Abdullah Al-Noaimi | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,800 |
| United Kingdom | Jack Straw | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,547 |
| United States | George W. Bush | President | 2,843 |
| Uruguay | Didier Opertti | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,705 |
| Uzbekistan | Sodiq Safoev | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,412 |
| Vanuatu | Rialuth Serge Vohor | Deputy Prime Minister | 1,737 |
| Venezuela | Roy Chaderton-Matos | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,859 |
| Vietnam | Nguyen Dy Nien | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,658 |
| Yemen | Abubakr A. Al-Qirbi | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,912 |
| Yugoslavia | Svetozar Marović | President | 909 |
| Zambia | Kalombo Mwansa | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,525 |
| Zimbabwe | Robert Mugabe | President | 2,176 |