General Debate speaker
Gedle-Giorgis
Addressed the General Debate 5 times for Ethiopia, between 1977 and 1982 — 23,231 words in all. The longest was 1978, at 5,264.
Also recorded as “GEDLE-GIORGIS” — 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 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 32 | not recorded | 5,256 |
| 1978 | 33 | not recorded | 5,264 |
| 1979 | 34 | not recorded | 4,838 |
| 1980 | 35 | not recorded | 3,799 |
| 1982 | 37 | not recorded | 4,074 |
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 non aligned 24 apartheid 18 colonialism 15 refugees 12 self determination 9 human rights 7 new economic order 6
Counts of words from a published list across these 5 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 Gedle-Giorgis 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.