General Debate speaker

JOHNSON

Addressed the General Debate 3 times for Liberia, between 1987 and 1989 — 9,875 words in all. The longest was 1989, at 4,048.

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.

02,5005,0001987: 3,059 words1988: 2,768 words1989: 4,048 words19871989
Length of each statement, in words.

Statements

YearSessionOfficeWords
1987 42 not recorded 3,059
1988 43 not recorded 2,768
1989 44 not recorded 4,048

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

apartheid 19 disarmament 16 human rights 11 self determination 6 torture 5 sustainable development 3 colonialism 3 non aligned 3

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 JOHNSON 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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