General Debate speaker

EL-TALHY

Addressed the General Debate 2 times for Libya, between 1989 and 1990 — 8,056 words in all. The longest was 1989, at 4,233.

Also recorded as “EL TALHY” — 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 2 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

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 terrorism 11 detente 7 apartheid 6 colonialism 4 non aligned 4 nuclear weapons 4 disarmament 3

Counts of words from a published list across these 2 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 EL-TALHY 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.