General Debate speaker

WHITEMAN

Addressed the General Debate 3 times for Grenada, between 1981 and 1983 — 14,093 words in all. The longest was 1982, at 5,538.

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.

05,00010,0001981: 4,332 words1982: 5,538 words1983: 4,223 words19811983
Length of each statement, in words.

Statements

YearSessionOfficeWords
1981 36 not recorded 4,332
1982 37 not recorded 5,538
1983 38 not recorded 4,223

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 7 self determination 6 non aligned 5 disarmament 4 new economic order 4 colonialism 3 nuclear weapons 3 genocide 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 WHITEMAN 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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