General Debate speaker

Chiepe

Addressed the General Debate 7 times for Botswana, between 1984 and 1993 — 25,722 words in all. The longest was 1984, at 5,449.

Also recorded as “CHIEPE”, — 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 7 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.

05,00010,0001984: 5,449 words1986: 3,794 words1988: 3,587 words1989: 3,164 words1990: 3,492 words1991: 3,373 words1993: 2,863 words19841993
Length of each statement, in words.

Statements

YearSessionOfficeWords
1984 39 not recorded 5,449
1986 41 not recorded 3,794
1988 43 not recorded 3,587
1989 44 not recorded 3,164
1990 45 not recorded 3,492
1991 46 not recorded 3,373
1993 48 not recorded 2,863

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 52 terrorism 14 refugees 9 human rights 9 self determination 8 peacekeeping 8 poverty 8 disarmament 7

Counts of words from a published list across these 7 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 Chiepe 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