General Debate speaker
Prince Saud Al-Faisal
Addressed the General Debate 10 times for Saudi Arabia, between 1975 and 2006 — 30,450 words in all. The longest was 1983, at 4,740.
- Office
- Minister for Foreign Affairs
Also recorded as “Prince Saud AL-FAISAL”, — the roster spells one person several ways across the decades, and these statements are grouped as one.
Statements
| Year | Session | Office | Words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 30 | not recorded | 2,419 |
| 1976 | 31 | not recorded | 2,331 |
| 1977 | 32 | not recorded | 2,331 |
| 1983 | 38 | not recorded | 4,740 |
| 1987 | 42 | not recorded | 4,001 |
| 1991 | 46 | not recorded | 3,632 |
| 1994 | 49 | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,876 |
| 2003 | 58 | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,880 |
| 2004 | 59 | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,589 |
| 2006 | 61 | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,651 |
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 47 refugees 13 self determination 11 nuclear weapons 9 colonialism 7 poverty 6 apartheid 6 detente 6
Counts of words from a published list across these 10 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 Prince Saud Al-Faisal 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.