General Debate speaker
Azeredo Da Silveira
Addressed the General Debate 4 times for Brazil, between 1974 and 1978 — 12,058 words in all. The longest was 1974, at 3,740.
Also recorded as “Azeredo da Silveira”, “AZEREDO DA SILVEIRA”, — the roster spells one person several ways across the decades, and these statements are grouped as one.
Statements
| Year | Session | Office | Words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 29 | not recorded | 3,740 |
| 1975 | 30 | not recorded | 2,535 |
| 1977 | 32 | not recorded | 3,452 |
| 1978 | 33 | not recorded | 2,331 |
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 18 nuclear weapons 9 human rights 9 decolonization 7 apartheid 6 self determination 6 colonialism 4 non proliferation 4
Counts of words from a published list across these 4 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 Azeredo Da Silveira 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.