General Debate speaker

Lassou

Addressed the General Debate 3 times for Chad, between 1985 and 1987 — 7,046 words in all. The longest was 1987, at 2,845.

Also recorded as “LASSOU”, — 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.

02,5005,0001985: 2,052 words1986: 2,149 words1987: 2,845 words19851987
Length of each statement, in words.

Statements

YearSessionOfficeWords
1985 40 not recorded 2,052
1986 41 not recorded 2,149
1987 42 not recorded 2,845

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

desertification 5 terrorism 2 apartheid 2 new economic order 1 genocide 1 non aligned 1 poverty 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 Lassou 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