General Debate speaker

Andersson

Addressed the General Debate 5 times for Sweden, between 1974 and 1989 — 13,489 words in all. The longest was 1987, at 3,069.

Also recorded as “ANDERSSON”, — the roster spells one person several ways across the decades, and these statements are grouped as one.

The record gives a surname and no more. United Nations rosters before the mid-1990s often record only a family name, so these 5 statements are grouped by that name and the name of the state. Where a state sent two people who shared a surname, this page would combine them, and nothing in the record would show it.

02,5005,0001974: 2,688 words1975: 2,769 words1987: 3,069 words1988: 2,398 words1989: 2,565 words19741989
Length of each statement, in words.

Statements

YearSessionOfficeWords
1974 29 not recorded 2,688
1975 30 not recorded 2,769
1987 42 not recorded 3,069
1988 43 not recorded 2,398
1989 44 not recorded 2,565

United Nations records do not consistently identify a speaker’s office before 1994, so a blank means the record does not say.

What the statements mention most

disarmament 26 human rights 21 nuclear weapons 17 apartheid 16 peacekeeping 15 detente 9 self determination 6 refugees 6

Counts of words from a published list across these 5 statements. A count is a fact about a word: it is not a measure of what this person believed, argued for, or cared about, and nothing on this page should be read that way.

Everything here is drawn from what Andersson said in an official capacity at the rostrum of the General Assembly, as published by the United Nations. Nothing else about them is collected or inferred.

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