General Debate speaker
Yaqub-Khan
Addressed the General Debate 7 times for Pakistan, between 1982 and 1990 — 25,947 words in all. The longest was 1984, at 4,143.
Also recorded as “YAQUB-KHAN”, “Yaqub Khan”, — 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 7 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 | 3,947 |
| 1983 | 38 | not recorded | 3,883 |
| 1984 | 39 | not recorded | 4,143 |
| 1985 | 40 | not recorded | 3,933 |
| 1986 | 41 | not recorded | 2,684 |
| 1988 | 43 | not recorded | 3,997 |
| 1990 | 45 | not recorded | 3,360 |
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 59 nuclear weapons 27 refugees 19 non aligned 17 self determination 14 apartheid 10 outer space 7 non proliferation 7
Counts of words from a published list across these 7 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 Yaqub-Khan 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.