The UNSC Meetings and Speeches

This dataset contains detailed information on the official public meetings of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). The dataset consists of two major parts: meeting records and speech records. The former compiles relevant pieces of information (date, agenda items, the monthly president's name and country, policy outputs, etc.) on each of the Council meetings (more than 9,300 in total) that have been held consecutively since the inception of the organ (1946-2023). The latter, which currently covers the entire post-Cold War period (1990-2023), comprises the transcripts of more than 100,000 public statements delivered by delegates and officials representing various countries and organizations at these meetings, along with related information on each statement (the speaker's name and affiliation, procedural or policy statement, etc.) The speech transcripts were converted to machine-readable format (plain text). The dataset is under constant update and expansion.