General Debate speaker
Asamoah
Addressed the General Debate 11 times for Ghana, between 1982 and 1995 — 34,148 words in all. The longest was 1985, at 4,077.
- Office
- Minister for Foreign Affairs
Also recorded as “ASAMOAH”, — 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 11 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.
Statements
| Year | Session | Office | Words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 37 | not recorded | 3,169 |
| 1983 | 38 | not recorded | 3,830 |
| 1985 | 40 | not recorded | 4,077 |
| 1987 | 42 | not recorded | 3,333 |
| 1988 | 43 | not recorded | 3,116 |
| 1989 | 44 | not recorded | 3,152 |
| 1990 | 45 | not recorded | 3,323 |
| 1991 | 46 | not recorded | 3,174 |
| 1993 | 48 | not recorded | 2,772 |
| 1994 | 49 | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,177 |
| 1995 | 50 | Minister for Foreign Affairs | 2,025 |
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
apartheid 33 peacekeeping 30 disarmament 22 poverty 17 colonialism 12 cold war 10 non aligned 9 self determination 8
Counts of words from a published list across these 11 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 Asamoah 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.