General Debate speaker

de Lequerica

Addressed the General Debate 6 times for Spain, between 1957 and 1962 — 41,039 words in all. The longest was 1960, at 7,585.

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

05,00010,0001957: 5,731 words1958: 7,347 words1959: 6,523 words1960: 7,585 words1961: 6,696 words1962: 7,157 words19571962
Length of each statement, in words.

Statements

YearSessionOfficeWords
1957 12 not recorded 5,731
1958 13 not recorded 7,347
1959 14 not recorded 6,523
1960 15 not recorded 7,585
1961 16 not recorded 6,696
1962 17 not recorded 7,157

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 26 self determination 12 colonialism 9 outer space 7 poverty 6 nuclear weapons 5 rule of law 1 iron curtain 1

Counts of words from a published list across these 6 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 Lequerica 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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