General Debate speaker

Garin

Addressed the General Debate 3 times for Portugal, between 1958 and 1960 — 15,331 words in all. The longest was 1960, at 6,593.

Also recorded as “GARIN” — 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 3 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.

05,00010,0001958: 4,139 words1959: 4,599 words1960: 6,593 words19581960
Length of each statement, in words.

Statements

YearSessionOfficeWords
1958 13 not recorded 4,139
1959 14 not recorded 4,599
1960 15 not recorded 6,593

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 36 outer space 9 cold war 5 poverty 2 self determination 1 nuclear weapons 1 human rights 1

Counts of words from a published list across these 3 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 Garin 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.

Where this page comes from