General Debate speaker

Johannesson

Addressed the General Debate 3 times for Iceland, between 1980 and 1982 — 5,805 words in all. The longest was 1981, at 2,125.

Also recorded as “JOHANNESSON”, — 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.

01,2502,5001980: 1,757 words1981: 2,125 words1982: 1,923 words19801982
Length of each statement, in words.

Statements

YearSessionOfficeWords
1980 35 not recorded 1,757
1981 36 not recorded 2,125
1982 37 not recorded 1,923

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 12 human rights 12 detente 4 nuclear weapons 3 self determination 3 torture 3 refugees 1 apartheid 1

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 Johannesson 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