General Debate speaker

Ieng Sary

Addressed the General Debate 4 times for Cambodia, between 1976 and 1981 — 25,465 words in all. The longest was 1978, at 7,582.

Also recorded as “IENG SARY” — the roster spells one person several ways across the decades, and these statements are grouped as one.

05,00010,0001976: 6,084 words1977: 6,968 words1978: 7,582 words1981: 4,831 words19761981
Length of each statement, in words.

Statements

YearSessionOfficeWords
1976 31 not recorded 6,084
1977 32 not recorded 6,968
1978 33 not recorded 7,582
1981 36 not recorded 4,831

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

non aligned 46 colonialism 36 new economic order 10 apartheid 9 decolonization 7 self determination 5 poverty 3 nuclear weapons 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 Ieng Sary 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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