General Debate speaker

Ghali

Addressed the General Debate 3 times for Egypt, between 1979 and 1990 — 14,950 words in all. The longest was 1982, at 6,778.

Also recorded as “GHALI” — 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.

05,00010,0001979: 5,845 words1982: 6,778 words1990: 2,327 words19791990
Length of each statement, in words.

Statements

YearSessionOfficeWords
1979 34 not recorded 5,845
1982 37 not recorded 6,778
1990 45 not recorded 2,327

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

colonialism 15 non aligned 13 disarmament 13 human rights 10 self determination 6 cold war 6 detente 6 apartheid 4

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 Ghali 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.

Where this page comes from