General Debate speaker

Fisher

Addressed the General Debate 2 times for German Democratic Republic, between 1976 and 1985 — 6,120 words in all. The longest was 1976, at 3,135.

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.

02,5005,0001976: 3,135 words1985: 2,985 words19761985
Length of each statement, in words.

Statements

YearSessionOfficeWords
1976 31 not recorded 3,135
1985 40 not recorded 2,985

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 detente 9 nuclear weapons 9 self determination 8 colonialism 7 non aligned 6 human rights 5 apartheid 3

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 Fisher 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