General Debate speaker

MUGABE

Addressed the General Debate 3 times for Zimbabwe, between 1984 and 1990 — 8,674 words in all. The longest was 1984, at 3,882.

Offices held
Prime Minister · President

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.

02,5005,0001984: 3,882 words1986: 2,597 words1990: 2,195 words19841990
Length of each statement, in words.

Statements

YearSessionOfficeWords
1984 39 Prime Minister 3,882
1986 41 Prime Minister 2,597
1990 45 President 2,195

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 15 non aligned 14 self determination 5 disarmament 3 cold war 3 terrorism 2 colonialism 2 new economic order 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 MUGABE 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