General Debate speaker

Bhutto

Addressed the General Debate 4 times for Pakistan, between 1960 and 1965 — 28,156 words in all. The longest was 1964, at 8,712.

Also recorded as “BHUTTO” — 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 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.

05,00010,0001960: 5,453 words1963: 5,857 words1964: 8,712 words1965: 8,134 words19601965
Length of each statement, in words.

Statements

YearSessionOfficeWords
1960 15 not recorded 5,453
1963 18 not recorded 5,857
1964 19 not recorded 8,712
1965 20 not recorded 8,134

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 36 self determination 24 nuclear weapons 20 colonialism 14 apartheid 5 cold war 5 peacekeeping 4 poverty 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 Bhutto 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