General Debate speaker

BOUTERSE

Addressed the General Debate 2 times for Suriname, between 1983 and 1986 — 6,471 words in all. The longest was 1983, at 3,427.

Office
Head of Government

The record gives a surname and no more. United Nations rosters before the mid-1990s often record only a family name, so these 2 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.

02,5005,0001983: 3,427 words1986: 3,044 words19831986
Length of each statement, in words.

Statements

YearSessionOfficeWords
1983 38 Head of Government 3,427
1986 41 Head of Government 3,044

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

terrorism 7 non aligned 6 disarmament 4 apartheid 2 rule of law 2 self determination 2 nuclear weapons 1 human rights 1

Counts of words from a published list across these 2 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 BOUTERSE 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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