General Debate speaker
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Addressed the General Debate 6 times for Costa Rica, between 1986 and 2009 — 17,324 words in all. The longest was 1986, at 4,339.
- Office
- President
Also recorded as “OSCAR ARIAS SANCHEZ” — the roster spells one person several ways across the decades, and these statements are grouped as one.
Statements
| Year | Session | Office | Words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 41 | President | 4,339 |
| 1987 | 42 | President | 2,465 |
| 1989 | 44 | President | 3,952 |
| 2006 | 61 | President | 2,479 |
| 2008 | 63 | President | 1,766 |
| 2009 | 64 | President | 2,323 |
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
poverty 23 human rights 12 terrorism 6 global warming 6 globalization 5 disarmament 4 sustainable development 4 refugees 4
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 Oscar Arias Sanchez 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.