General Debate speaker
Couve de Murville
Addressed the General Debate 5 times for France, between 1958 and 1967 — 21,935 words in all. The longest was 1959, at 5,932.
Also recorded as “COUVE de MURVILLE”, “COUVE DE MURVILLE” — the roster spells one person several ways across the decades, and these statements are grouped as one.
Statements
| Year | Session | Office | Words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | 13 | not recorded | 4,209 |
| 1959 | 14 | not recorded | 5,932 |
| 1965 | 20 | not recorded | 4,460 |
| 1966 | 21 | not recorded | 3,855 |
| 1967 | 22 | not recorded | 3,479 |
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 66 cold war 9 self determination 6 nuclear weapons 6 decolonization 5 detente 5 poverty 4 iron curtain 2
Counts of words from a published list across these 5 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 Couve de Murville 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.