General Debate speaker
Velayati
Addressed the General Debate 13 times for Iran, between 1982 and 1995 — 65,703 words in all. The longest was 1986, at 7,828.
- Office
- Minister for Foreign Affairs
Also recorded as “VELAYATI”, — 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 13 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.
Statements
| Year | Session | Office | Words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 37 | not recorded | 6,162 |
| 1983 | 38 | not recorded | 7,769 |
| 1984 | 39 | not recorded | 6,755 |
| 1985 | 40 | not recorded | 5,977 |
| 1986 | 41 | not recorded | 7,828 |
| 1988 | 43 | not recorded | 5,144 |
| 1989 | 44 | not recorded | 2,918 |
| 1990 | 45 | not recorded | 3,678 |
| 1991 | 46 | not recorded | 3,049 |
| 1992 | 47 | not recorded | 3,476 |
| 1993 | 48 | not recorded | 4,385 |
| 1994 | 49 | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 3,943 |
| 1995 | 50 | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 4,619 |
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 48 human rights 32 non aligned 27 terrorism 26 refugees 24 nuclear weapons 19 colonialism 14 non proliferation 13
Counts of words from a published list across these 13 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 Velayati 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.