United Nations General Debate Corpus 1946-2022

Every year since 1946, representatives of the UN member states gather at the annual sessions of the United Nations General Assembly. The centrepiece of each session is the General Debate. This is a forum at which leaders and other senior officials deliver statements that present their government’s perspective on the major issues in world politics. These statements are akin to the annual legislative state-of-the-union addresses in domestic politics. See more from the UN here. This dataset, the UN General Debate Corpus (UNGDC), introduces the corpus of transcripts of General Debate statements from 1946 (Session 1) to 2022 (Session 77). Additional information is available from here.