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General Debate speaker

Vivian Balakrishnan

Addressed the General Debate 8 times for Singapore, between 2016 and 2025 — 15,562 words in all. The longest was 2018, at 2,204.

Offices held
Minister of Foreign Affairs · Minister for Foreign Affairs
01,2502,5002016: 1,656 words2017: 1,995 words2018: 2,204 words2021: 1,874 words2022: 2,008 words2023: 1,859 words2024: 1,985 words2025: 1,981 words20162025
Length of each statement, in words.

Statements

YearSessionOfficeWords
2016 71 Minister for Foreign Affairs 1,656
2017 72 Minister for Foreign Affairs 1,995
2018 73 Minister for Foreign Affairs 2,204
2021 76 Minister of Foreign Affairs 1,874
2022 77 Minister of Foreign Affairs 2,008
2023 78 Minister of Foreign Affairs 1,859
2024 79 Minister of Foreign Affairs 1,985
2025 80 Minister for Foreign Affairs 1,981

What the statements mention most

climate change 33 sustainable development 30 pandemic 13 biodiversity 11 terrorism 9 cyber 7 digital divide 6 artificial intelligence 6

Counts of words from a published list across these 8 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 Vivian Balakrishnan 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.

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