General Debate speaker
Eban
Addressed the General Debate 14 times for Israel, between 1949 and 1973 — 80,812 words in all. The longest was 1970, at 7,788.
Also recorded as “EBAN”, — the roster spells one person several ways across the decades, and these statements are grouped as one.
The record gives a surname and no more. United Nations rosters before the mid-1990s often record only a family name, so these 14 statements are grouped by that name and the name of the state. Where a state sent two people who shared a surname, this page would combine them, and nothing in the record would show it.
Statements
| Year | Session | Office | Words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | 4 | not recorded | 3,677 |
| 1952 | 7 | not recorded | 3,961 |
| 1953 | 8 | not recorded | 4,328 |
| 1954 | 9 | not recorded | 5,628 |
| 1955 | 10 | not recorded | 5,202 |
| 1964 | 19 | not recorded | 5,354 |
| 1966 | 21 | not recorded | 5,508 |
| 1967 | 22 | not recorded | 6,173 |
| 1968 | 23 | not recorded | 6,256 |
| 1969 | 24 | not recorded | 7,514 |
| 1970 | 25 | not recorded | 7,788 |
| 1971 | 26 | not recorded | 6,784 |
| 1972 | 27 | not recorded | 6,717 |
| 1973 | 28 | not recorded | 5,922 |
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
terrorism 68 refugees 29 disarmament 17 human rights 13 detente 11 peacekeeping 7 self determination 6 colonialism 5
Counts of words from a published list across these 14 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 Eban 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.