General Debate speaker

Alarcon

Addressed the General Debate 5 times for Cuba, between 1969 and 1976 — 26,229 words in all. The longest was 1976, at 6,206.

Also recorded as “ALARCON”, — 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.

05,00010,0001969: 6,192 words1970: 4,137 words1971: 3,523 words1972: 6,171 words1976: 6,206 words19691976
Length of each statement, in words.

Statements

YearSessionOfficeWords
1969 24 not recorded 6,192
1970 25 not recorded 4,137
1971 26 not recorded 3,523
1972 27 not recorded 6,171
1976 31 not recorded 6,206

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

colonialism 47 non aligned 19 self determination 10 disarmament 7 poverty 6 apartheid 5 detente 5 genocide 3

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 Alarcon 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