General Debate speaker
Qian Qichen
Addressed the General Debate 10 times for People's Republic of China, between 1988 and 1997 — 31,542 words in all. The longest was 1991, at 4,358.
- Offices held
- Minister for Foreign Affairs · Deputy Prime Minister
Also recorded as “QIAN Qichen”, “QIAN QICHEN”, — the roster spells one person several ways across the decades, and these statements are grouped as one.
Statements
| Year | Session | Office | Words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 43 | not recorded | 3,942 |
| 1989 | 44 | not recorded | 3,919 |
| 1990 | 45 | not recorded | 2,733 |
| 1991 | 46 | not recorded | 4,358 |
| 1992 | 47 | not recorded | 3,333 |
| 1993 | 48 | not recorded | 3,146 |
| 1994 | 49 | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,553 |
| 1995 | 50 | Deputy Prime Minister | 2,382 |
| 1996 | 51 | Deputy Prime Minister | 2,827 |
| 1997 | 52 | Deputy Prime Minister | 2,349 |
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 52 nuclear weapons 44 human rights 42 peacekeeping 16 cold war 11 poverty 10 non proliferation 9 outer space 9
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 Qian Qichen 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.