General Debate speaker

Da Gama

Addressed the General Debate 2 times for Portugal, between 1983 and 1984 — 8,693 words in all. The longest was 1984, at 4,438.

Also recorded as “DA GAMA”, — the roster spells one person several ways across the decades, and these statements are grouped as one.

Statements

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 16 self determination 6 disarmament 5 refugees 5 apartheid 3 decolonization 3 torture 2 desertification 1

Counts of words from a published list across these 2 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 Da Gama 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.