General Debate speaker

Shahi

Addressed the General Debate 4 times for Pakistan, between 1977 and 1981 — 19,085 words in all. The longest was 1979, at 4,998.

Also recorded as “SHAHI” — 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 4 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: 4,254 words1978: 4,949 words1979: 4,998 words1981: 4,884 words19771981
Length of each statement, in words.

Statements

YearSessionOfficeWords
1977 32 not recorded 4,254
1978 33 not recorded 4,949
1979 34 not recorded 4,998
1981 36 not recorded 4,884

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

nuclear weapons 38 disarmament 34 non proliferation 16 non aligned 13 refugees 8 new economic order 7 apartheid 6 poverty 5

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 Shahi 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