General Debate speaker
da Luz
Addressed the General Debate 8 times for Cape Verde, between 1977 and 1990 — 29,675 words in all. The longest was 1982, at 4,478.
Also recorded as “da LUZ”, “DA LUZ” — the roster spells one person several ways across the decades, and these statements are grouped as one.
Statements
| Year | Session | Office | Words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 32 | not recorded | 2,724 |
| 1979 | 34 | not recorded | 4,226 |
| 1980 | 35 | not recorded | 4,024 |
| 1982 | 37 | not recorded | 4,478 |
| 1984 | 39 | not recorded | 4,143 |
| 1987 | 42 | not recorded | 3,727 |
| 1988 | 43 | not recorded | 4,101 |
| 1990 | 45 | not recorded | 2,252 |
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
apartheid 18 disarmament 18 human rights 17 self determination 13 non aligned 12 desertification 11 detente 9 new economic order 9
Counts of words from a published list across these 8 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 Luz 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.