General Debate speaker

Huq

Addressed the General Debate 5 times for Bangladesh, between 1977 and 1981 — 18,420 words in all. The longest was 1977, at 4,873.

Also recorded as “HUQ” — 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 5 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.

02,5005,0001977: 4,873 words1978: 4,146 words1979: 4,614 words1980: 2,556 words1981: 2,231 words19771981
Length of each statement, in words.

Statements

YearSessionOfficeWords
1977 32 not recorded 4,873
1978 33 not recorded 4,146
1979 34 not recorded 4,614
1980 35 not recorded 2,556
1981 36 not recorded 2,231

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

disarmament 20 poverty 12 non aligned 10 rule of law 9 new economic order 7 colonialism 5 human rights 5 apartheid 4

Counts of words from a published list across these 5 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 Huq 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