General Debate speaker
Sheikh Al-Sabah
Addressed the General Debate 5 times for Kuwait, between 1983 and 2002 — 16,033 words in all. The longest was 1993, at 4,090.
- Offices held
- Deputy Prime Minister · Amir
Also recorded as “Sheikh AL-SABAH” — the roster spells one person several ways across the decades, and these statements are grouped as one.
Statements
| Year | Session | Office | Words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 38 | not recorded | 3,331 |
| 1990 | 45 | Amir | 2,256 |
| 1993 | 48 | not recorded | 4,090 |
| 1995 | 50 | Deputy Prime Minister | 3,543 |
| 2002 | 57 | Deputy Prime Minister | 2,813 |
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 16 cold war 5 self determination 4 peacekeeping 4 poverty 3 torture 2 human rights 2 sustainable development 1
Counts of words from a published list across these 5 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 Sheikh Al-Sabah 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.