General Debate speaker
Al-Thani
Addressed the General Debate 12 times for Qatar, between 1973 and 1994 — 26,766 words in all. The longest was 1994, at 3,743.
- Office
- Minister for Foreign Affairs
Also recorded as “AL-THANI”, — 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 12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | 28 | not recorded | 1,769 |
| 1974 | 29 | not recorded | 1,727 |
| 1975 | 30 | not recorded | 1,601 |
| 1979 | 34 | not recorded | 2,888 |
| 1983 | 38 | not recorded | 1,981 |
| 1984 | 39 | not recorded | 2,151 |
| 1985 | 40 | not recorded | 2,464 |
| 1987 | 42 | not recorded | 1,807 |
| 1988 | 43 | not recorded | 1,910 |
| 1992 | 47 | not recorded | 1,797 |
| 1993 | 48 | not recorded | 2,928 |
| 1994 | 49 | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,743 |
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
terrorism 26 self determination 15 human rights 12 disarmament 11 apartheid 10 colonialism 8 cold war 7 non aligned 7
Counts of words from a published list across these 12 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-Thani 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.