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 (nearly 9,000 in total) that have been held consecutively since the inception of the organ (1946-2021). The latter, which currently covers the entire post-Cold War period (1990-2021), comprises the transcripts of nearly 90,000 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), and are available in both raw and preprocessed versions. The dataset is under constant update and expansion.