General Debate speaker

BA

Addressed the General Debate 3 times for Mali, between 1960 and 1966 — 16,571 words in all. The longest was 1960, at 6,059.

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.

05,00010,0001960: 6,059 words1965: 4,784 words1966: 5,728 words19601966
Length of each statement, in words.

Statements

YearSessionOfficeWords
1960 15 not recorded 6,059
1965 20 not recorded 4,784
1966 21 not recorded 5,728

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 36 disarmament 10 apartheid 8 self determination 7 cold war 5 decolonization 4 nuclear weapons 4 genocide 3

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 BA 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