General Debate speaker

de Freitas Valle

Addressed the General Debate 4 times for Brazil, between 1949 and 1956 — 7,263 words in all. The longest was 1949, at 2,054.

Also recorded as “DE FREITAS VALLE”, “de FREITAS VALLE” — the roster spells one person several ways across the decades, and these statements are grouped as one.

01,2502,5001949: 2,054 words1950: 1,747 words1955: 1,632 words1956: 1,830 words19491956
Length of each statement, in words.

Statements

YearSessionOfficeWords
1949 4 not recorded 2,054
1950 5 not recorded 1,747
1955 10 not recorded 1,632
1956 11 not recorded 1,830

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 5 disarmament 2 genocide 1

Counts of words from a published list across these 4 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 de Freitas Valle 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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