General Debate speaker
Gro Harlem Brundtland
Addressed the General Debate 4 times for Norway, between 1988 and 1996 — 9,898 words in all. The longest was 1989, at 3,379.
- Office
- Prime Minister
Also recorded as “GRO HARLEM BRUNDTLAND”, — the roster spells one person several ways across the decades, and these statements are grouped as one.
Statements
| Year | Session | Office | Words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 43 | Prime Minister | 2,531 |
| 1989 | 44 | Prime Minister | 3,379 |
| 1991 | 46 | Prime Minister | 2,297 |
| 1996 | 51 | Prime Minister | 1,691 |
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
human rights 17 poverty 12 sustainable development 9 nuclear weapons 5 apartheid 4 peacekeeping 4 non aligned 4 climate change 3
Counts of words from a published list across these 4 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 Gro Harlem Brundtland 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.