General Debate speaker

Green

Addressed the General Debate 3 times for Canada, between 1959 and 1962 — 12,826 words in all. The longest was 1961, at 4,872.

Also recorded as “GREEN” — 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.

02,5005,0001959: 3,685 words1961: 4,872 words1962: 4,269 words19591962
Length of each statement, in words.

Statements

YearSessionOfficeWords
1959 14 not recorded 3,685
1961 16 not recorded 4,872
1962 17 not recorded 4,269

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 64 outer space 24 refugees 15 nuclear weapons 14 peacekeeping 6 colonialism 2 self determination 2 human rights 2

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 Green 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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