General Debate
Session 63, 2008
192 statements, median length 1,785 words.
| State | Speaker | Post | Words |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afghanistan | Hamid Karzai | President | 1,341 |
| Albania | Bamir Topi | President | 1,826 |
| Algeria | Mourad Medelci | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,190 |
| Andorra | Albert Pintat | Head of Government | 1,219 |
| Angola | Joao Bernardo de Miranda | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,686 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | Winston Baldwin Spencer | Prime Minister | 1,597 |
| Argentina | Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner | President | 2,180 |
| Armenia | Serzh Sargsyan | President | 1,601 |
| Australia | Kevin Rudd | Prime Minister | 2,715 |
| Austria | Ursula Plassnik | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,916 |
| Azerbaijan | Elmar Maharram oglu Mammadyarov | UN Representative | 1,437 |
| Bahrain | Shaikh Khalid Bin Ahmed Al-Khalifa | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,302 |
| Bangladesh | Fakhruddin Ahmed | Deputy Prime Minister | 2,082 |
| Barbados | David Thompson | Prime Minister | 2,152 |
| Belarus | Andrei Dapkiunas | UN Representative | 1,597 |
| Belgium | Karel de Gucht | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,972 |
| Belize | Wilfred Elrington | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,096 |
| Benin | Boni Yahi | President | 1,925 |
| Bhutan | Lyonchoen Jigmi Yoezer Thinley | Prime Minister | 1,664 |
| Bolivia | Evo Morales Ayma | President | 2,886 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | Haris Silajdzic | UN Representative | 1,449 |
| Botswana | Phandu Skalemani | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,467 |
| Brazil | Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva | President | 1,611 |
| Brunei | Prince Haji Al-Muhtadee Billah | Head of State | 1,048 |
| Bulgaria | Sergei Stanshev | Prime Minister | 1,384 |
| Burkina Faso | Blaise Compaore | President | 1,157 |
| Burundi | Gabriel Ntisezerana | Vice-President | 1,631 |
| Cambodia | Ouch Borith | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,716 |
| Cameroon | Paul Biya | President | 1,585 |
| Canada | Leonard Edwards | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,133 |
| Cape Verde | Pedro Verona Rodrigues Pires | President | 1,011 |
| Central African Republic | Francois Bozize | President | 1,624 |
| Chad | Moussa Faki Mahamat | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,722 |
| Chile | Michelle Bachelet Jeria | President | 2,099 |
| Colombia | Alvaro Uribe Velez | President | 1,786 |
| Comoros | Ahmed Abdallah Sambi | President | 1,829 |
| Costa Rica | Oscar Arias Sanchez | President | 1,766 |
| Croatia | Ivo Sanander | Prime Minister | 2,180 |
| Cuba | Jose Ramon Machado Ventura | Vice-President | 2,260 |
| Cyprus | Dimitris Christofias | President | 1,502 |
| Czech Republic | Karel Schwarzenberg | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,066 |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | Atoki Ileka | UN Representative | 2,377 |
| Dominica | Roosevelt Skerrit | Prime Minister | 2,075 |
| Dominican Republic | Leonel Fernandez Reyna | President | 1,628 |
| Ecuador | Maria Fernanda Espinosa | UN Representative | 2,565 |
| Egypt | Ahmed Aboul Gheit | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,970 |
| El Salvador | Elias Antonio Saca Gonzalez | President | 3,003 |
| Equatorial Guinea | Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo | President | 1,437 |
| Eritrea | Osman Mohammed Saleh | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,570 |
| Estonia | Toomas Hendrik Ilves | President | 1,348 |
| Eswatini | King Mswati III | Head of State | 1,372 |
| Ethiopia | Seyoum Mesfin | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,138 |
| Federated States of Micronesia | Emanuel Mori | President | 1,678 |
| Fiji | Josaia V. Bainimarama | Prime Minister | 3,291 |
| Finland | Tarja Halonen | President | 1,223 |
| France | Nicolas Sarkozy | President | 1,451 |
| Gabon | Didjob Divungi Di Ndinge | Vice-President | 1,755 |
| Georgia | Mikheil Saakashvili | President | 3,335 |
| Germany | Frank-Walter Steinmeier | Deputy Prime Minister | 1,779 |
| Ghana | John Agyekum Kufour | President | 1,354 |
| Greece | Dora Bakoyannis | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,041 |
| Grenada | Tillman Thomas | Prime Minister | 2,045 |
| Guatemala | Alvaro Colom Caballeros | President | 1,662 |
| Guinea | Ahmed Tidiane Souare | Prime Minister | 1,867 |
| Guinea-Bissau | Joao Bernardo Vieira | President | 1,363 |
| Guyana | Bharrat Jagdeo | President | 1,952 |
| Haiti | Rene Garcia Preval | President | 1,718 |
| Holy See | Archbishop Celestino Migliore | UN Representative | 1,196 |
| Honduras | Jose Manuel Zelaya Rosales | President | 2,845 |
| Hungary | Kinga Goncz | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,946 |
| Iceland | Geir H. Haarde | Prime Minister | 1,449 |
| India | Manmohan Singh | Prime Minister | 1,257 |
| Indonesia | Hassan Wirajuda | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,743 |
| Iran | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | President | 3,079 |
| Iraq | Jalal Talabani | President | 2,015 |
| Ireland | Micheal Martin | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,582 |
| Israel | Shimon Peres | President | 1,645 |
| Italy | Franco Frattini | Deputy Prime Minister | 1,200 |
| Ivory Coast | Youssouf Bakayoko | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,581 |
| Jamaica | Orette Bruce Golding | Prime Minister | 2,131 |
| Japan | Taro Aso | Prime Minister | 2,296 |
| Jordan | Salah Bashir | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,222 |
| Kazakhstan | Marat Tazhin | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,366 |
| Kenya | Mwai Kibaki | President | 1,364 |
| Kingdom of Denmark | Carsten Staur | UN Representative | 1,991 |
| Kingdom of the Netherlands | Jan Peter Balkenende | Prime Minister | 1,588 |
| Kiribati | Anote Tong | President | 2,647 |
| Kuwait | Sheikh Naser Al-Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah | Prime Minister | 1,663 |
| Kyrgyzstan | Nur Uulu Dosbol | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 993 |
| Laos | Thongloun Sisoulith | Deputy Prime Minister | 1,334 |
| Latvia | Valdis Zatlers | President | 1,782 |
| Lebanon | Michel Sleiman | President | 2,070 |
| Lesotho | Mohlabi Teskoa | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,749 |
| Liberia | Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf | President | 2,306 |
| Libya | Giadalla A. Ettalhi | UN Representative | 2,170 |
| Liechtenstein | Rita Kieber-Beck | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,280 |
| Lithuania | Valdas Adamkus | President | 1,422 |
| Luxembourg | Jean Asselborn | Deputy Prime Minister | 2,282 |
| Madagascar | Marc Ravalomanana | President | 1,792 |
| Malawi | Bingu Wa Mutharika | President | 1,154 |
| Malaysia | Rais Yatim | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,855 |
| Maldives | Ahmed Khaleel | UN Representative | 1,909 |
| Mali | Moctar Ouane | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,460 |
| Malta | Lawrence Gonzi | Prime Minister | 1,819 |
| Marshall Islands | Litokwa Tomeing | President | 1,588 |
| Mauritania | Abderrahim Ould Hadrami | UN Representative | 1,989 |
| Mauritius | Somduth Soborun | UN Representative | 2,902 |
| Mexico | Felipe Calderon Hinojosa | President | 1,698 |
| Moldova | Andrei Stratan | Deputy Prime Minister | 1,310 |
| Monaco | Franck Biancheri | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,573 |
| Mongolia | Bayar Sanj | Prime Minister | 1,211 |
| Montenegro | Filip Vujanovic | President | 1,206 |
| Morocco | Abbas El Fassi | Prime Minister | 1,463 |
| Mozambique | Armando Emilio Guebuza | President | 1,320 |
| Myanmar | Nyan Win | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,741 |
| Namibia | Hifikepunye Pohamba | President | 1,304 |
| Nauru | Marcus Stephen | President | 2,185 |
| Nepal | Pushpa Kamal Dahal "Prachanda" | Prime Minister | 2,312 |
| New Zealand | Rosemary Banks | UN Representative | 1,514 |
| Nicaragua | Santos Lopez | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,422 |
| Niger | Aichatou Mindaoudou | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,261 |
| Nigeria | Ojo Maduekwe | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,658 |
| North Korea | Pak Kil Yon | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,731 |
| North Macedonia | Branko Crvenkovski | President | 1,458 |
| Norway | Jens Stoltenberg | Prime Minister | 1,283 |
| Oman | Sayyid Badr bin Hamad AlBusaidi | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,401 |
| Pakistan | Asif Ali Zardari | President | 2,709 |
| Palau | Elias Camsek Chin | Vice-President | 1,215 |
| Panama | Martin Torrijos | President | 1,738 |
| Papua New Guinea | Puka Temu | Deputy Prime Minister | 1,978 |
| Paraguay | Fernando Lugo Mendez | President | 2,783 |
| People's Republic of China | Wen Jiabao | Head of Government | 1,339 |
| Peru | Jose Antonio Garcia Belaunde | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,923 |
| Philippines | Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo | President | 1,189 |
| Poland | Lech Kaczynski | President | 2,273 |
| Portugal | Anibal Antonio Cavaco Silva | President | 1,546 |
| Qatar | Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani | Head of State | 567 |
| Republic of the Congo | Basile Ikouebe | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,059 |
| Romania | Lazar Comanescu | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,137 |
| Russia | Sergey V. Lavrov | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,410 |
| Rwanda | Paul Kagame | President | 624 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | Denzil Douglas | Prime Minister | 2,726 |
| Saint Lucia | Stephenson King | Prime Minister | 2,686 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | Ralph E. Gonsalves | Prime Minister | 2,116 |
| Samoa | Tuilaepa Lupesoliai Sailele Malielegaoi | Prime Minister | 1,932 |
| San Marino | Fiorenzo Stolfi | Head of Government | 1,592 |
| Senegal | Abdoulaye Wade | President | 2,269 |
| Serbia | Boris Tadic | President | 1,810 |
| Seychelles | James Alix Michel | President | 1,785 |
| Sierra Leone | Ernest Bai Koroma | President | 1,281 |
| Singapore | George Yeo | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,166 |
| Slovakia | Jan Kubis | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,208 |
| Slovenia | Danila Turk | President | 2,076 |
| Solomon Islands | Derrick Sikua | Prime Minister | 2,764 |
| Somalia | Ali Ahmed Jama Jengeli | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,350 |
| South Africa | Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,133 |
| South Korea | Han Seung-soo | Prime Minister | 2,086 |
| Spain | Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero | President | 1,554 |
| Sri Lanka | Mahinda Rajapaksa | President | 2,261 |
| State of Palestine | Mahmoud Abbas | President | 2,300 |
| Sudan | Ali Osman Mohamed Taha | Vice-President | 3,066 |
| Suriname | Runaldo Ronald Venetiaan | President | 1,247 |
| Sweden | Anders Liden | UN Representative | 1,500 |
| Switzerland | Peter Maurer | UN Representative | 1,827 |
| Syria | Walid Al-Moualem | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,006 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | Fradique Bandeira Melo de Menezes | President | 1,375 |
| Tajikistan | Emomali Rahmon | President | 2,198 |
| Tanzania | Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete | President | 2,474 |
| Thailand | Don Pramudwinai | UN Representative | 2,279 |
| The Bahamas | Alexander Ingraham | Prime Minister | 1,627 |
| The Gambia | Omar A. Touray | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,896 |
| Timor-Leste | Jose Ramos-Horta | President | 1,928 |
| Togo | Kofi Esaw | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,603 |
| Tonga | Frederick Vaka'uta Sevele | Prime Minister | 1,366 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | Paula Gopee-Scoon | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,294 |
| Tunisia | Abdelwaheb Abdallah | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,106 |
| Turkey | Abdullah Gul | President | 1,517 |
| Turkmenistan | Rashid Meredov | Deputy Prime Minister | 1,929 |
| Tuvalu | Apisai Ielemia | Prime Minister | 1,924 |
| Uganda | Yoweri Kaguta Museveni | President | 1,440 |
| Ukraine | Viktor Yushchenko | President | 1,165 |
| United Arab Emirates | Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,467 |
| United Kingdom | Gordon Brown | Prime Minister | 2,009 |
| United States | George W. Bush | President | 2,856 |
| Uruguay | Gonzalo Fernandez | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,882 |
| Uzbekistan | Vladimir Norov | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,033 |
| Vanuatu | Kalkot Matas Kelekele | President | 2,327 |
| Venezuela | Roy Chaderton Matos | UN Representative | 2,641 |
| Vietnam | Pham Gia Khiem | Deputy Prime Minister | 907 |
| Yemen | Abubakr Al-Qirbi | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,837 |
| Zambia | Kabinga Jacus Pande | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,900 |
| Zimbabwe | Robert Mugabe | President | 1,800 |