General Debate speaker

Molapo

Addressed the General Debate 6 times for Lesotho, between 1977 and 1983 — 22,870 words in all. The longest was 1978, at 5,172.

Also recorded as “MOLAPO” — 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 6 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.

05,00010,0001977: 4,442 words1978: 5,172 words1979: 3,545 words1980: 3,064 words1982: 3,258 words1983: 3,389 words19771983
Length of each statement, in words.

Statements

YearSessionOfficeWords
1977 32 not recorded 4,442
1978 33 not recorded 5,172
1979 34 not recorded 3,545
1980 35 not recorded 3,064
1982 37 not recorded 3,258
1983 38 not recorded 3,389

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 62 refugees 26 human rights 18 poverty 8 disarmament 8 new economic order 7 colonialism 5 non aligned 5

Counts of words from a published list across these 6 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 Molapo 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