The barricades are down, the world leaders have left and New Yorkers are complaining slightly less about traffic. The gathering of world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly is over. Here, we break down the stats for you: U.N. GENERAL ASSEMBLY SESSIONS: 77 The first U.N. General Assembly was convened in 1946. This month the 77th session opened. DAYS OF GENERAL DEBATE: 6 The stately fireworks that mark the so-called General Debate — where presidents, prime ministers and kings take the stage — began on Tuesday, Sept. 20. Speeches continued through Monday, Sept. 26, with Sunday off. SPEAKERS: 195 The 195 includes speeches from three permanent observers — Palestine, the Holy See and the European Union — as well as opening speeches from U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres and the president of the 77th General Assembly, Csaba Kőrösi of Hungary, who also delivered a closing speech. FIRST SPEECH: Brazil LAST SPEECH: Nauru Brazil is historically the first member to speak, as their decision to volunteer amid others’ reluctance in the early days of the General Assembly set a precedent. Nauru is by no means obligated to go last — in 2021, the final speaker was Timor-Leste — but the order of speakers is generally determined by factors including geography and what position the speaker holds. TITLE OF SPEAKERS: — Presidents: 73 — Kings: 2 — Princes: 2 — Emirs: 1 — Prime ministers: 49 — Transitional or acting leaders: 2 — Secretaries of state: 1 — Vice presidents: 4 — Ministers: 52 — Permanent representatives to the United Nations: 7 The most common types of speakers are heads of state, heads of government and ministers. This year saw four royals at the rostrum including the kings of Jordan and Eswatini and the emir of Qatar. There were two speakers with the title of prince: Prince Albert II is Monaco’s head of state, while Prince Farhan bin Faisal is Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister (though the tally above counts him only in the prince column). Pietro Parolin, the delegate from the Holy See, has the title of “secretary of state.” The position is held by a cardinal who acts as the pope’s deputy and handles the Vatican’s political and diplomatic affairs. Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan is Sudan’s transitional leader. He led a coup against a transitional government charged with shepherding the country to democracy last year. Mali’s acting prime minister, Abdoulaye Maiga, is also a spokesperson for the government of the country’s coup leader, Assimi Goita. GENDER OF SPEAKERS: Male: 173 Female: 22 Women’s voices at the U.N. General Assembly typically number few. Even among this year’s speakers, fewer than half — nine, to be precise — were heads of state or government. The paltry total still represented an improvement from last year, when only 18 women spoke. The president of last year’s General Assembly, Abdullah Shahid of the Maldives, convened the first-ever UNGA Platform of Women Leaders to try to address the gap. During the meeting last week, participants said it could take anywhere between 130 and 300 years to achieve gender parity. ABSENCES: 3 Afghanistan, Myanmar and São Tomé and Príncipe are all U.N. member-states, but none took the microphone this year. The status of Afghanistan and Myanmar’s representation remains in dispute — the same issue precluded the two Asian countries […]

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