General Debate speaker

Bourguiba

Addressed the General Debate 6 times for Tunisia, between 1956 and 1969 — 29,167 words in all. The longest was 1965, at 6,279.

Also recorded as “BOURGUIBA”, — 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 6 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.

05,00010,0001956: 3,332 words1964: 5,576 words1965: 6,279 words1967: 4,089 words1968: 4,770 words1969: 5,121 words19561969
Length of each statement, in words.

Statements

YearSessionOfficeWords
1956 11 not recorded 3,332
1964 19 not recorded 5,576
1965 20 not recorded 6,279
1967 22 not recorded 4,089
1968 23 not recorded 4,770
1969 24 not recorded 5,121

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 24 colonialism 22 nuclear weapons 17 self determination 12 peacekeeping 11 decolonization 9 apartheid 6 non proliferation 6

Counts of words from a published list across these 6 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 Bourguiba 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