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General Debate speaker

Sey

Addressed the General Debate 7 times for The Gambia, between 1987 and 1993 — 25,077 words in all. The longest was 1988, at 4,340.

Also recorded as “SEY” — 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 7 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.

02,5005,0001987: 3,821 words1988: 4,340 words1989: 3,881 words1990: 3,428 words1991: 3,396 words1992: 3,407 words1993: 2,804 words19871993
Length of each statement, in words.

Statements

YearSessionOfficeWords
1987 42 not recorded 3,821
1988 43 not recorded 4,340
1989 44 not recorded 3,881
1990 45 not recorded 3,428
1991 46 not recorded 3,396
1992 47 not recorded 3,407
1993 48 not recorded 2,804

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 75 apartheid 23 self determination 11 poverty 8 refugees 8 disarmament 6 cold war 5 sustainable development 5

Counts of words from a published list across these 7 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 Sey 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.

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