General Debate
Session 62, 2007
191 statements, median length 1,818 words.
| State | Speaker | Post | Words |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afghanistan | Hâmid Karzai, | President | 1,275 |
| Albania | Sali Berisha | Prime Minister | 1,566 |
| Algeria | Mourad Medelci | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,505 |
| Andorra | Albert Pintat | Prime Minister | 1,482 |
| Angola | José Eduardo dos Santos, | President | 1,516 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | Winston Baldwin Spencer | Prime Minister | 2,745 |
| Argentina | Néstor Carlos Kirchner, | President | 3,373 |
| Armenia | Vartan Oskanian | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,371 |
| Australia | Robert Hill | UN Representative | 1,925 |
| Austria | Ursula Plassnik | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,761 |
| Azerbaijan | Elmar Mammadyarov | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,573 |
| Bahrain | Shaikh Khalid Bin Ahmed Al-Khalifa, | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,682 |
| Bangladesh | Fakhruddin Ahmed | Deputy Prime Minister | 2,082 |
| Barbados | Billie A. Miller | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,120 |
| Belarus | Sergei Martynov, | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,527 |
| Belgium | Karel de Gucht | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,302 |
| Belize | Lisa Shoman | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,059 |
| Benin | Moussa Okanla | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,818 |
| Bhutan | Yeshey Dorgi | UN Representative | 1,415 |
| Bolivia | Evo Morales Ayma | President | 2,788 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | Želijko Komšić | President | 2,451 |
| Botswana | Festus G. Mogae | President | 2,009 |
| Brazil | Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, | President | 1,550 |
| Brunei | Mohamed Bolkiah | Head of State | 767 |
| Bulgaria | Ivailo Kalfin | Deputy Prime Minister | 1,790 |
| Burkina Faso | Djibril Yipènè Bassolet | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,028 |
| Burundi | Martin Nduwimana | Vice-President | 1,788 |
| Cambodia | Hor Namhong | Prime Minister | 1,687 |
| Cameroon | Paul Biya | President | 1,818 |
| Canada | Maxime Bernier | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,062 |
| Cape Verde | José Maria Neves | Prime Minister | 1,153 |
| Central African Republic | Come Zoumara, | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,618 |
| Chad | Ahmad Allam-Mi | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,107 |
| Chile | Michelle Bachelet Jeria | President | 1,551 |
| Colombia | Álvaro Uribe Vélez | President | 2,186 |
| Comoros | Ahmed Abdallah Sambi | President | 2,287 |
| Costa Rica | Bruno Stagno Ugarte | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,585 |
| Croatia | Stjepan Mesić, | President | 1,133 |
| Cuba | Felipe Pérez Roque | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,561 |
| Cyprus | Tassos Papadopoulos | President | 1,889 |
| Czech Republic | Václav Klaus | President | 1,170 |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | Joseph Kabila Kabange | President | 1,341 |
| Dominica | Charles Savarin, | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,093 |
| Dominican Republic | Leonel Fernández Reyna, | President | 1,221 |
| Ecuador | Rafael Correa | President | 1,599 |
| Egypt | Ahmed Aboul Gheit | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,335 |
| El Salvador | Antonio Saca Gonzalez | President | 2,560 |
| Equatorial Guinea | Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo | President | 1,606 |
| Eritrea | Osman Mohammed Saleh, | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,498 |
| Estonia | Toomas Hendrik Ilves | President | 1,149 |
| Eswatini | Mswati III | Head of State | 1,521 |
| Ethiopia | Seyoum Mesfin | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,645 |
| Federated States of Micronesia | Emanuel Mori | President | 1,837 |
| Fiji | Josaia V. Bainimarama | Prime Minister | 2,984 |
| Finland | Tarja Halonen | President | 1,060 |
| France | Nicolas Sarkozy | President | 1,802 |
| Gabon | Jean Ping | Deputy Prime Minister | 1,868 |
| Georgia | Mikheil Saakashvili | President | 3,178 |
| Germany | Angela Merkel | Prime Minister | 1,879 |
| Ghana | John Agyekum Kufuor, | President | 1,643 |
| Greece | Yannis Valinakis | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,096 |
| Grenada | Mr. Elvin Nimrod | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,917 |
| Guatemala | Óscar Berger Perdomo | President | 2,020 |
| Guinea | Lansana Kouyaté | Prime Minister | 2,344 |
| Guinea-Bissau | João Bernardo Vieira | President | 1,245 |
| Guyana | Samuel Insanally | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,798 |
| Haiti | René Garcia Préval | President | 1,476 |
| Holy See | Archbishop Dominique Mamberti | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,948 |
| Honduras | José Manuel Zelaya Rosales, | President | 2,174 |
| Hungary | Kinga Göncz, | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,855 |
| Iceland | Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,226 |
| India | Pranab Mukherjee | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,066 |
| Indonesia | Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, | President | 1,226 |
| Iran | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | President | 4,337 |
| Iraq | Nuri Kamel Al-Maliki | Prime Minister | 2,590 |
| Ireland | Dermot Ahern, T.D | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,316 |
| Israel | Tzipi Livni | Prime Minister | 2,365 |
| Italy | Romano Prodi | Prime Minister | 1,851 |
| Ivory Coast | Laurent Gbagbo | President | 1,401 |
| Jamaica | Kenneth Baugh | Prime Minister | 2,864 |
| Japan | Masahiko Koumura | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,147 |
| Jordan | Abdelelah Al-Khatib | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,485 |
| Kazakhstan | Nursultan A. Nazarbayev | President | 1,881 |
| Kenya | Raphael Tuju | UN Representative | 2,452 |
| Kingdom of Denmark | Carsten Staur, | UN Representative | 2,006 |
| Kingdom of the Netherlands | Jan Peter Balkenende | Prime Minister | 1,798 |
| Kiribati | Natanaera Kirata | Deputy Prime Minister | 1,278 |
| Kuwait | Sheikh Mohammad Al-Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah | Deputy Prime Minister | 1,647 |
| Kyrgyzstan | Ednan Karabaev | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,122 |
| Laos | Thongloun Sisoulith | Prime Minister | 1,284 |
| Latvia | Valdis Zatlers | President | 1,490 |
| Lebanon | Emile Lahoud | President | 1,578 |
| Lesotho | Archibald Lesao Lehohla | Prime Minister | 1,736 |
| Liberia | Joseph Nyumah Boakai | Vice-President | 1,919 |
| Libya | Abdurrahman Mohamed Shalgham | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,225 |
| Liechtenstein | Rita Kieber-Beck | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,104 |
| Lithuania | Valdas Adamkus | President | 1,484 |
| Luxembourg | Jean Asselborn | Deputy Prime Minister | 2,376 |
| Madagascar | Marc Ravalomanana | President | 1,417 |
| Malawi | Bingu Wa Mutharika, | President | 1,761 |
| Malaysia | Dato’ Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi | Prime Minister | 1,831 |
| Maldives | Abdulla Shahid | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,769 |
| Malta | Lawrence Gonz | Prime Minister | 2,045 |
| Marshall Islands | Kessai Note | President | 2,009 |
| Mauritania | Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdellahi | President | 1,432 |
| Mauritius | Navinchandra Ramgoolam | Prime Minister | 3,000 |
| Mexico | Claude Heller | UN Representative | 2,305 |
| Moldova | Andrei Stratan | Prime Minister | 1,131 |
| Monaco | Prince Albert II | Head of State | 1,851 |
| Mongolia | Nyamaa Enkhbold | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,518 |
| Montenegro | Željko Šturanović | Prime Minister | 1,767 |
| Morocco | Mohamed Benaissa | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,127 |
| Mozambique | Armando Emílio Guebuza | President | 1,663 |
| Myanmar | Nyan Win | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,894 |
| Namibia | Marco Haisiku | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,355 |
| Nauru | Ludwig Scotty, | President | 2,231 |
| Nepal | Sahana Pradhan | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,768 |
| New Zealand | Rosemary Banks | UN Representative | 1,927 |
| Nicaragua | Daniel Ortega Saavedra | President | 2,801 |
| Niger | Aïchatou Mindaoudou | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,014 |
| Nigeria | Umaru Yar’Adua, | President | 1,161 |
| North Korea | Choe Su Hon, | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,600 |
| North Macedonia | Branko Crvenkovski | President | 1,389 |
| Norway | Jens Stoltenberg | Prime Minister | 1,253 |
| Oman | Sayyid Badr Bin Hamad AlBusaidi | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,164 |
| Pakistan | Riaz Mohammad Khan | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,129 |
| Palau | Elias Camsek Chin | Vice-President | 1,050 |
| Panama | Martín Torrijos, | President | 1,441 |
| Papua New Guinea | Michael Somare | Prime Minister | 1,439 |
| Paraguay | Mr. Duarte Frutos | President | 2,295 |
| People's Republic of China | Yang Jiechi | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,303 |
| Peru | Gonzalo Gutiérrez Reinel | Deputy Prime Minister | 2,149 |
| Philippines | Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, | President | 1,430 |
| Poland | Lech Kaczyński | President | 1,084 |
| Portugal | José Socrates | Prime Minister | 1,885 |
| Qatar | Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, | Head of State | 955 |
| Republic of the Congo | Basile Ikouebe | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,981 |
| Romania | Adrian Mihai Cioroianu | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,319 |
| Russia | Sergey Lavrov | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,797 |
| Rwanda | Paul Kagame | President | 979 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | Timothy Harris | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,725 |
| Saint Lucia | Stephenson King | Prime Minister | 2,794 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | Ralph E. Gonsalves | Prime Minister | 1,998 |
| Samoa | Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi | Prime Minister | 2,042 |
| San Marino | Fiorenzo Stolfi | Head of Government | 2,254 |
| Senegal | Abdoulaye Wade | President | 1,754 |
| Serbia | Boris Tadić | President | 1,951 |
| Seychelles | Patrick Pillary, | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,164 |
| Sierra Leone | Joe Robert Pemagbi | UN Representative | 1,552 |
| Singapore | George Yeo | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,654 |
| Slovakia | Ivan Gašparovič | President | 1,464 |
| Slovenia | Janez Janša | Prime Minister | 857 |
| Solomon Islands | Patteson Oti | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,737 |
| Somalia | Hussein Elabe Fahiye | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 998 |
| South Africa | Thabo Mbeki | President | 1,862 |
| South Korea | Song Min-soon | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,884 |
| Spain | Miguel Angel Moratinos Cuyaubé | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,687 |
| Sri Lanka | Mahinda Rajapaksa, | President | 1,599 |
| State of Palestine | Mr. Mahmoud Abbas | President | 2,113 |
| Sudan | Lam Akol Ajawin | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,164 |
| Suriname | Lygia Kraag-Keteldijk | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 830 |
| Sweden | Anders Lidén | UN Representative | 1,454 |
| Switzerland | Mrs. Micheline Calmy-Rey, | President | 1,747 |
| Syria | Walid Al-Moualem | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,678 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | Fradique Bandeira Melo de Menezes | President | 1,358 |
| Tajikistan | Sirodjidin Aslov | UN Representative | 1,868 |
| Tanzania | Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete | President | 1,506 |
| Thailand | Surayud Chulanont | Prime Minister | 1,600 |
| The Bahamas | Brent Symonette | Prime Minister | 2,223 |
| The Gambia | Isatou Njie-Saidy | Vice-President | 2,074 |
| Timor-Leste | José Ramos-Horta | President | 2,344 |
| Togo | Zarifou Ayeva | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,666 |
| Tonga | Sonatane Tu’a Taumoepeau-Tupou, | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,902 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | Philip Sealy | UN Representative | 2,820 |
| Tunisia | Abdelwaheb Abdallah | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,865 |
| Turkey | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan | Prime Minister | 2,126 |
| Turkmenistan | Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, | President | 1,822 |
| Tuvalu | Tavau Teii | Prime Minister | 1,968 |
| Uganda | Sam Kutesa, | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,031 |
| Ukraine | Volodymyr Khandogiy, | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,748 |
| United Arab Emirates | Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,510 |
| United Kingdom | David Miliband | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,941 |
| United States | George W. Bush | President | 2,446 |
| Uruguay | Reinaldo Gargano | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,133 |
| Uzbekistan | Vladimir Norov | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,045 |
| Vanuatu | George Andre Wells | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,455 |
| Venezuela | Nicolás Maduro Moros | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,782 |
| Vietnam | Nguyen Tan Dung | Prime Minister | 1,715 |
| Yemen | Aboubakr A. Al-Qirbi | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,985 |
| Zambia | Levy Patrick Mwanawasa | President | 1,805 |
| Zimbabwe | Robert G. Mugabe | President | 2,052 |