General Debate speaker

Usher

Addressed the General Debate 5 times for Ivory Coast, between 1966 and 1974 — 17,699 words in all. The longest was 1971, at 4,745.

Also recorded as “USHER”, — 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 5 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.

02,5005,0001966: 2,410 words1969: 2,746 words1971: 4,745 words1972: 3,427 words1974: 4,371 words19661974
Length of each statement, in words.

Statements

YearSessionOfficeWords
1966 21 not recorded 2,410
1969 24 not recorded 2,746
1971 26 not recorded 4,745
1972 27 not recorded 3,427
1974 29 not recorded 4,371

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

apartheid 13 self determination 9 colonialism 7 disarmament 6 decolonization 5 poverty 4 refugees 3 detente 2

Counts of words from a published list across these 5 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 Usher 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