General Debate speaker
Seyoum Mesfin
Addressed the General Debate 14 times for Ethiopia, between 1994 and 2010 — 30,762 words in all. The longest was 1999, at 4,582.
- Offices held
- Minister for Foreign Affairs · Minister for Foregn Affairs
Also recorded as “Seyoum MESFIN” — the roster spells one person several ways across the decades, and these statements are grouped as one.
Statements
| Year | Session | Office | Words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 49 | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,845 |
| 1996 | 51 | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,012 |
| 1997 | 52 | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,534 |
| 1998 | 53 | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,777 |
| 1999 | 54 | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 4,582 |
| 2001 | 56 | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,580 |
| 2002 | 57 | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,683 |
| 2003 | 58 | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,675 |
| 2004 | 59 | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,982 |
| 2005 | 60 | Minister for Foregn Affairs | 1,304 |
| 2007 | 62 | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,645 |
| 2008 | 63 | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,138 |
| 2009 | 64 | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 1,839 |
| 2010 | 65 | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,166 |
What the statements mention most
poverty 50 terrorism 29 human rights 10 cold war 9 sustainable development 9 climate change 8 rule of law 6 peacekeeping 6
Counts of words from a published list across these 14 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 Seyoum Mesfin 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.