General Debate
Session 64, 2009
193 statements, median length 1,889 words.
| State | Speaker | Post | Words |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afghanistan | Rangin Dadfar Spanta | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,180 |
| Albania | Sali Berisha | Prime Minister | 2,007 |
| Algeria | Abdelaziz Bouteflika | President | 1,124 |
| Andorra | Xavier Espot Miro | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,305 |
| Angola | Assuncao Afonso dos Anjos | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,358 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | Winston Baldwin Spencer | Prime Minister | 2,663 |
| Argentina | Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner | President | 2,265 |
| Armenia | Edward Nalbandyan | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,506 |
| Australia | Keven Rudd | Prime Minister | 2,363 |
| Austria | Michael Spindelegger | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,695 |
| Azerbaijan | Elmar Maharram oglu Mammadyarov | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,810 |
| Bahrain | Shaikh Khalid Bin Ahmed Bin Mohamed Al-Khalifa | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,183 |
| Bangladesh | Sheikh Hasina | Prime Minister | 2,622 |
| Barbados | Maxine Pamela Ometa McClean | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,320 |
| Belarus | Sergei Martynov | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,047 |
| Belgium | Yves Leterme | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,558 |
| Belize | Wilfred Elrington | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,519 |
| Benin | Jean-Marie Ehouzou | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,981 |
| Bhutan | Daw Penjo | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,527 |
| Bolivia | Evo Morales Ayma | President | 2,388 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | Zeljko Komsic | President | 2,291 |
| Botswana | Charles Thembani | UN Representative | 1,953 |
| Brazil | Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva | President | 1,897 |
| Brunei | Prince Mohamed Bolkiah | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 868 |
| Bulgaria | Rumiana Jeleva | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,738 |
| Burkina Faso | Blaise Campaore | President | 1,085 |
| Burundi | Gabriel Ntisezerana | Vice-President | 2,605 |
| Cambodia | Hor Namhong | Deputy Prime Minister | 1,860 |
| Cameroon | Paul Biya | President | 1,674 |
| Canada | Lawrence Cannon | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,973 |
| Cape Verde | Antonio Pedro Monteiro Lima | UN Representative | 1,954 |
| Central African Republic | Faustin Archange Touadera | Prime Minister | 2,455 |
| Chad | Moussa Faki Mahamat | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,647 |
| Chile | Michelle Bachelet Jeria | President | 1,938 |
| Colombia | Alvaro Uribe Velez | President | 1,991 |
| Comoros | Ahmed Abdallah Sambi | President | 1,567 |
| Costa Rica | Oscar Arias Sanchez | President | 2,323 |
| Croatia | Stjepan Mesic | President | 824 |
| Cuba | Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,515 |
| Cyprus | Dimitris Christofias | President | 1,851 |
| Czech Republic | Vaclav Klaus | President | 994 |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | Thambwe Mwamba | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,641 |
| Djibouti | Roble Olhaye | UN Representative | 1,886 |
| Dominica | Nicholas Joseph Orville Liverpool | President | 2,109 |
| Dominican Republic | Leonel Fernandez Reyna | President | 1,647 |
| Ecuador | Fander Falconi | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,290 |
| Egypt | Ahmed Aboul Gheit | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,662 |
| El Salvador | Carlos Mauricio Funes Cartagena | President | 2,935 |
| Equatorial Guinea | Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo | President | 1,480 |
| Eritrea | Osman Mohammed Saleh | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,080 |
| Estonia | Toomas Hendrik Ilves | President | 1,324 |
| Eswatini | King Mswati III | Head of State | 1,548 |
| Ethiopia | Seyoum Mesfin | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,839 |
| Federated States of Micronesia | Emmanuel Mori | President | 1,637 |
| Fiji | Josaia V. Bainimarama | Prime Minister | 2,408 |
| Finland | Tarja Halonen | President | 1,162 |
| France | Nicolas Sarkozy | President | 1,479 |
| Gabon | Paul Toungui | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,151 |
| Georgia | Mikheil Saakashvili | President | 3,285 |
| Germany | Thomas Matussek | UN Representative | 2,140 |
| Ghana | John Evans Atta Mills | President | 1,722 |
| Greece | Anastassis Mitsialis | UN Representative | 2,976 |
| Grenada | Peter David | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,321 |
| Guatemala | Alvaro Colom Caballeros | President | 2,193 |
| Guinea | Alexandre Cece Loua | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,202 |
| Guinea-Bissau | Carlos Gomes Junior | Prime Minister | 2,291 |
| Guyana | Bharrat Jagdeo | President | 1,748 |
| Haiti | Rene Preval | President | 1,085 |
| Holy See | Archbishop Celestino Migliore | UN Representative | 1,429 |
| Honduras | Patricia Isabel Rodas Baca | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,204 |
| Hungary | Peter Balazs | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,388 |
| Iceland | Ossur Skarpheoinsson | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,083 |
| India | S. M. Krishna | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,890 |
| Indonesia | Hassan Wirajuda | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,798 |
| Iran | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | President | 3,441 |
| Iraq | Jalal Talabani | President | 2,025 |
| Ireland | Peter Power | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,656 |
| Israel | Benjamin Netanyahu | Prime Minister | 2,738 |
| Italy | Silvio Berlusconi | Head of Government | 1,132 |
| Ivory Coast | Laurent Gbagbo | President | 1,860 |
| Jamaica | Kenneth Baugh | Deputy Prime Minister | 2,272 |
| Japan | Yukio Hatoyama | Prime Minister | 2,299 |
| Jordan | Nasser Judeh | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,121 |
| Kazakhstan | Kanat Saudabayev | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,736 |
| Kenya | Raila Amollo Odinga | Prime Minister | 1,873 |
| Kingdom of Denmark | Carsten Staur | UN Representative | 1,889 |
| Kingdom of the Netherlands | Jan Peter Balkenende | Prime Minister | 1,461 |
| Kiribati | Anote Tong | President | 1,645 |
| Kuwait | Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah | Prime Minister | 2,493 |
| Kyrgyzstan | Igor V. Chudinov | Prime Minister | 1,647 |
| Laos | Thongloun Sisoulith | Deputy Prime Minister | 1,742 |
| Latvia | Valdis Zatlers | President | 1,787 |
| Lebanon | General Michel Sleimann | President | 1,812 |
| Lesotho | Pakalitha Bethuel Mosisili | Prime Minister | 1,982 |
| Liberia | Joseph Boakai | Vice-President | 2,416 |
| Libya | Colonel Maummar Al-Qadhafi | Head of State | 10,342 |
| Liechtenstein | Aurelia Frick | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,306 |
| Lithuania | Dalia Grybauskaite | President | 907 |
| Luxembourg | Jean Asselborn | Prime Minister | 2,588 |
| Madagascar | Andry Nirina Rajoelina | President | 1,426 |
| Malawi | Bingu Wa Mutharika | President | 748 |
| Malaysia | Datuk Anifah Aman | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,857 |
| Maldives | Mohamed Nasheed | President | 1,563 |
| Mali | Oumar Daou | UN Representative | 1,156 |
| Malta | Lawrence Gonzi | Prime Minister | 2,068 |
| Marshall Islands | Litokwa Tomeing | President | 1,690 |
| Mauritania | Naha Mint Mouknass | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,259 |
| Mauritius | Navinchandra Ramgoolam | Prime Minister | 4,119 |
| Mexico | Patricia Espinosa Cantellano | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,401 |
| Moldova | Alexandru Cujba | UN Representative | 2,391 |
| Monaco | Prince Albert II | Head of State | 1,774 |
| Mongolia | Elbegdorj Tsakhia | President | 1,641 |
| Montenegro | Milo Dukanovic | Prime Minister | 2,019 |
| Morocco | Taib Fassi Fihri | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,152 |
| Mozambique | Oldemiro Marques Baloi | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,267 |
| Myanmar | General Thein Sein | Prime Minister | 1,698 |
| Namibia | Marco Hausiku | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,351 |
| Nauru | Marcus Stephen | President | 2,132 |
| Nepal | Madhav Kumar Nepal | Prime Minister | 3,031 |
| New Zealand | John Key | Prime Minister | 2,058 |
| Nicaragua | Samuel Santos Lopez | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,100 |
| Niger | Aichatou Mindaoudou | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,165 |
| Nigeria | Chief Ojo Maduekwe | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,377 |
| North Korea | Pak Kil Yon | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,907 |
| North Macedonia | Gjorge Ivanov | President | 1,782 |
| Norway | Jonas Gahr Store | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,074 |
| Oman | Yousef Bin Al-Alawi Bin Abdulla | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 834 |
| Pakistan | Asif Ali Zardari | President | 1,231 |
| Palau | Johnson Toribiong | President | 1,406 |
| Panama | Ricardo Martinelli Berrocal | President | 2,055 |
| Papua New Guinea | Samuel T. Abal | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,444 |
| Paraguay | Fernando Lugo Mendez | President | 1,973 |
| People's Republic of China | Hu Jintao | President | 1,552 |
| Peru | Jose Antonio Garcia Belaunde | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,943 |
| Philippines | Alberto Gatmaitan Romulo | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,735 |
| Poland | Lech Kaczynski | President | 1,445 |
| Portugal | Joao Gomes Cravinho | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,265 |
| Qatar | Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani | Head of State | 1,379 |
| Republic of the Congo | Denis Sassou Nguesso | President | 1,413 |
| Romania | Cristian Diaconescu | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,194 |
| Russia | Dimitry Medvedev | President | 2,595 |
| Rwanda | Paul Kagame | President | 1,044 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | Denzil Douglas | Prime Minister | 2,671 |
| Saint Lucia | Rufus George Bousquet | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,012 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | Camillo Gonsalves | UN Representative | 2,454 |
| Samoa | Tuilaepa Lupesoliai Sailele Maliegaoi | Prime Minister | 1,728 |
| San Marino | Antonella Mularoni | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,906 |
| Senegal | Abdoulaye Wade | President | 3,090 |
| Serbia | Boris Tadic | President | 2,407 |
| Seychelles | Ronald Jean Jumeau | UN Representative | 1,301 |
| Sierra Leone | Ernest Bai Koroma | President | 1,675 |
| Singapore | George Yeo | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,843 |
| Slovakia | Miroslav Lajcak | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,861 |
| Slovenia | Danilo Turk | President | 1,778 |
| Solomon Islands | Fredrick Fono | Deputy Prime Minister | 2,492 |
| Somalia | Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed | President | 1,523 |
| South Africa | Jacob Zuma | President | 1,511 |
| South Korea | Lee Myung-bak | President | 2,033 |
| Spain | Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero | Head of Government | 2,293 |
| Sri Lanka | Ratnasiri Wickramanayake | Prime Minister | 2,678 |
| State of Palestine | Mahmoud Abbas | President | 1,477 |
| Sudan | Ghazi Salahuddin Atabani | Deputy Prime Minister | 2,428 |
| Suriname | Ramdien Sardjoe | Vice-President | 1,125 |
| Sweden | Fredrik Reinfeldt | Prime Minister | 1,839 |
| Switzerland | Hans-Rudolph Merz | President | 1,275 |
| Syria | Walid Al-Moualem | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,927 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | Fradique Bandeira Melo de Menezes | President | 1,408 |
| Tajikistan | Emomali Rahmon | President | 2,466 |
| Tanzania | Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete | President | 2,086 |
| Thailand | Abhisit Vejjajiva | Prime Minister | 2,216 |
| The Bahamas | Theodore Brent Symonette | Deputy Prime Minister | 1,598 |
| The Gambia | Al Hadji Yahya Jammeh | President | 2,556 |
| Timor-Leste | Zacarias Albano da Costa | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,670 |
| Togo | Kodjo Menan | UN Representative | 2,341 |
| Tonga | Feleti Vaka'uta Sevele | Prime Minister | 1,277 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | Patrick Manning | Prime Minister | 2,062 |
| Tunisia | Abdelwahib Abdallah | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,219 |
| Turkey | Recep Tayyip Erdogan | Prime Minister | 2,735 |
| Turkmenistan | Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov | President | 2,137 |
| Tuvalu | Apisai Ielemia | Prime Minister | 1,873 |
| Uganda | Yoweri Kaguta Museveni | President | 1,295 |
| Ukraine | Victor Yushchenko | President | 1,481 |
| United Arab Emirates | Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahayan | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,531 |
| United Kingdom | Gordon Brown | Prime Minister | 2,281 |
| United States | Barack Obama | President | 5,137 |
| Uruguay | Tabare Vazquez | President | 1,575 |
| Uzbekistan | Vladimir Norov | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,118 |
| Vanuatu | Edward Nipake Natapei | Prime Minister | 2,304 |
| Venezuela | Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias | President | 6,170 |
| Vietnam | Nguyen Minh Triet | President | 1,367 |
| Yemen | Abubakr Al-Qirbi | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,795 |
| Zambia | Rupiah Bwezani Banda | President | 2,162 |
| Zimbabwe | Robert G. Mugabe | President | 1,722 |