General Debate speaker
Mahathir bin Mohamad
Addressed the General Debate 4 times for Malaysia, between 1988 and 2019 — 13,404 words in all. The longest was 1988, at 4,531.
- Office
- Prime Minister
Also recorded as “MAHATHIR BIN MOHAMAD”, — the roster spells one person several ways across the decades, and these statements are grouped as one.
Statements
| Year | Session | Office | Words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 43 | Prime Minister | 4,531 |
| 1991 | 46 | Prime Minister | 3,646 |
| 2018 | 73 | Prime Minister | 2,315 |
| 2019 | 74 | Prime Minister | 2,912 |
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 11 disarmament 7 rule of law 7 apartheid 5 poverty 5 nuclear weapons 4 human rights 4 non aligned 3
Counts of words from a published list across these 4 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 Mahathir bin Mohamad 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.