General Debate speaker

Andrei

Addressed the General Debate 8 times for Romania, between 1978 and 1985 — 39,061 words in all. The longest was 1982, at 5,691.

Also recorded as “ANDREI” — 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 8 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.

05,00010,0001978: 3,697 words1979: 5,382 words1980: 4,511 words1981: 5,191 words1982: 5,691 words1983: 4,690 words1984: 4,813 words1985: 5,086 words19781985
Length of each statement, in words.

Statements

YearSessionOfficeWords
1978 33 not recorded 3,697
1979 34 not recorded 5,382
1980 35 not recorded 4,511
1981 36 not recorded 5,191
1982 37 not recorded 5,691
1983 38 not recorded 4,690
1984 39 not recorded 4,813
1985 40 not recorded 5,086

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 133 nuclear weapons 46 detente 38 new economic order 22 colonialism 20 outer space 16 non aligned 14 apartheid 9

Counts of words from a published list across these 8 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 Andrei 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