General Debate speaker
Al-Sahaf
Addressed the General Debate 3 times for Iraq, between 1992 and 1995 — 11,814 words in all. The longest was 1993, at 4,397.
- Office
- Minister for Foreign Affairs
Also recorded as “AL-SAHAF” — the roster spells one person several ways across the decades, and these statements are grouped as one.
The record gives a surname and no more. United Nations rosters before the mid-1990s often record only a family name, so these 3 statements are grouped by that name and the name of the state. Where a state sent two people who shared a surname, this page would combine them, and nothing in the record would show it.
Statements
| Year | Session | Office | Words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 47 | not recorded | 3,580 |
| 1993 | 48 | not recorded | 4,397 |
| 1995 | 50 | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,837 |
United Nations records do not consistently identify a speaker’s office before 1994, so a blank means the record does not say.
What the statements mention most
human rights 12 self determination 2 cold war 2 refugees 1 non proliferation 1 nuclear weapons 1 poverty 1
Counts of words from a published list across these 3 statements. A count is a fact about a word: it is not a measure of what this person believed, argued for, or cared about, and nothing on this page should be read that way.
Everything here is drawn from what Al-Sahaf said in an official capacity at the rostrum of the General Assembly, as published by the United Nations. Nothing else about them is collected or inferred.