General Debate speaker
Matthews
Addressed the General Debate 4 times for Liberia, between 1980 and 1993 — 11,117 words in all. The longest was 1992, at 3,944.
Also recorded as “MATTHEWS”, — 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 4 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.
Statements
| Year | Session | Office | Words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 35 | not recorded | 1,579 |
| 1981 | 36 | not recorded | 2,347 |
| 1992 | 47 | not recorded | 3,944 |
| 1993 | 48 | not recorded | 3,247 |
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 19 apartheid 7 peacekeeping 6 refugees 5 non aligned 4 human rights 3 self determination 3 biodiversity 1
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 Matthews 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.