General Debate speaker

Pursoo

Addressed the General Debate 3 times for Grenada, between 1991 and 1994 — 6,892 words in all. The longest was 1994, at 2,526.

Office
UN Representative

Also recorded as “PURSOO” — 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 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.

02,5005,0001991: 2,478 words1992: 1,888 words1994: 2,526 words19911994
Length of each statement, in words.

Statements

YearSessionOfficeWords
1991 46 not recorded 2,478
1992 47 not recorded 1,888
1994 49 UN Representative 2,526

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 7 apartheid 4 biodiversity 4 sustainable development 4 climate change 3 human rights 3 cold war 2 self determination 2

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 Pursoo 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