Diplomatic press releases and statements are an essential medium for United Nations Member States to convey their views to a large audience.

The public website Diplomatic Pulse — developed by the Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA) and the Qatar Computing Research Institute — helps make international discourse transparent and accessible for researchers, journalists, and civil society organizations.

The new version of Diplomatic Pulse offers:

  • a quick search for official press releases from UN Member States, Observer States, and International Organizations

  • easy summary reports for relevant press statements

  • offers open for the public

  • advanced analysis to compare multiple topics over time

  • insights for trending keywords

  • clear data visualization for the top 20 countries mentioning the themes of interest

The search engine was initially designed to promote visibility of statements of UN Member States, Observer States, and International Organizations.

Unlike commercial search engines, Diplomatic Pulse impartially handles press statements without favouring or disfavouring them based on the popularity or size of the countries involved. This approach allows users to discover press statements issued by Member States with relatively limited online visibility.

You can also search diplomatic texts thematically. Using Diplomatic Pulse to find out how many Member States have published statements on artificial intelligence in the past month, for example, it takes only a few seconds to discover that 37 statements had been published on the subject by 13 countries.

“The current state of global peace and security needs a modern UN system with a forward-thinking culture, empowered by cutting-edge skills” said Asif Khan, Director of the Policy and Mediation Division in DPPA. “We hope Diplomatic Pulse will …. help build understanding and bridge divisions,” he said.

Diplomatic Pulse responds to the call in the UN 2.0 Quintet of Change as well as the Secretary-General’s Data Strategy to advance data analytics and internal capacities across the UN family.

Since the launch of Diplomatic Pulse in 2001, the Innovation Cell of the Policy and Mediation Division has collected user feedback to improve analytical functions, user friendliness, and accessibility.