General Debate speaker
Poos
Addressed the General Debate 11 times for Luxembourg, between 1984 and 1995 — 37,055 words in all. The longest was 1985, at 6,577.
- Office
- Deputy Prime Minister
Also recorded as “POOS”, — 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 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 39 | not recorded | 3,257 |
| 1985 | 40 | not recorded | 6,577 |
| 1986 | 41 | not recorded | 3,058 |
| 1987 | 42 | not recorded | 3,908 |
| 1989 | 44 | not recorded | 3,642 |
| 1990 | 45 | not recorded | 2,976 |
| 1991 | 46 | not recorded | 2,992 |
| 1992 | 47 | not recorded | 2,706 |
| 1993 | 48 | not recorded | 2,772 |
| 1994 | 49 | Deputy Prime Minister | 2,532 |
| 1995 | 50 | Deputy Prime Minister | 2,635 |
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
human rights 71 peacekeeping 25 disarmament 13 apartheid 13 refugees 10 poverty 9 self determination 8 terrorism 8
Counts of words from a published list across these 11 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 Poos 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.