General Debate speaker

Boupha

Addressed the General Debate 3 times for Laos, between 1978 and 1982 — 9,921 words in all. The longest was 1979, at 3,927.

Also recorded as “BOUPHA” — 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 3 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.

02,5005,0001978: 2,135 words1979: 3,927 words1982: 3,859 words19781982
Length of each statement, in words.

Statements

YearSessionOfficeWords
1978 33 not recorded 2,135
1979 34 not recorded 3,927
1982 37 not recorded 3,859

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 17 colonialism 10 detente 9 non aligned 8 new economic order 6 apartheid 5 self determination 4 genocide 4

Counts of words from a published list across these 3 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 Boupha 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.

Where this page comes from