General Debate speaker

Castillo-Valdes

Addressed the General Debate 3 times for Guatemala, between 1972 and 1980 — 14,031 words in all. The longest was 1978, at 7,332.

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.

05,00010,0001972: 2,380 words1978: 7,332 words1980: 4,319 words19721980
Length of each statement, in words.

Statements

YearSessionOfficeWords
1972 27 not recorded 2,380
1978 33 not recorded 7,332
1980 35 not recorded 4,319

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

human rights 27 terrorism 14 self determination 4 colonialism 3 new economic order 2 decolonization 1 disarmament 1 non proliferation 1

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 Castillo-Valdes 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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