General Debate speaker

BALAFREJ

Addressed the General Debate 4 times for Morocco, between 1956 and 1963 — 10,067 words in all. The longest was 1962, at 3,300.

The record gives a surname and no more. United Nations rosters before the mid-1990s often record only a family name, so these 4 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.

02,5005,0001956: 2,257 words1957: 1,445 words1962: 3,300 words1963: 3,065 words19561963
Length of each statement, in words.

Statements

YearSessionOfficeWords
1956 11 not recorded 2,257
1957 12 not recorded 1,445
1962 17 not recorded 3,300
1963 18 not recorded 3,065

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 15 disarmament 9 self determination 5 poverty 4 decolonization 3 refugees 1 apartheid 1 non aligned 1

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 BALAFREJ 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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