General Debate speaker

Compton

Addressed the General Debate 2 times for Saint Lucia, between 1982 and 1984 — 7,354 words in all. The longest was 1984, at 4,337.

Office
Prime Minister

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.

02,5005,0001982: 3,017 words1984: 4,337 words19821984
Length of each statement, in words.

Statements

YearSessionOfficeWords
1982 37 Prime Minister 3,017
1984 39 not recorded 4,337

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

colonialism 5 poverty 5 terrorism 3 genocide 2 disarmament 2 nuclear weapons 1 human rights 1 apartheid 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 Compton 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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