General Debate speaker

Soder

Addressed the General Debate 3 times for Sweden, between 1976 and 1978 — 11,403 words in all. The longest was 1978, at 5,261.

Also recorded as “SODER” — 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.

05,00010,0001976: 2,445 words1977: 3,697 words1978: 5,261 words19761978
Length of each statement, in words.

Statements

YearSessionOfficeWords
1976 31 not recorded 2,445
1977 32 not recorded 3,697
1978 33 not recorded 5,261

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

disarmament 32 human rights 23 nuclear weapons 17 apartheid 12 new economic order 7 poverty 7 detente 6 non aligned 4

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 Soder 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