General Debate speaker

Hillery

Addressed the General Debate 3 times for Ireland, between 1969 and 1972 — 12,910 words in all. The longest was 1971, at 5,849.

Also recorded as “HILLERY”, — 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.

05,00010,0001969: 3,676 words1971: 5,849 words1972: 3,385 words19691972
Length of each statement, in words.

Statements

YearSessionOfficeWords
1969 24 not recorded 3,676
1971 26 not recorded 5,849
1972 27 not recorded 3,385

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

peacekeeping 16 human rights 7 disarmament 4 non proliferation 4 nuclear weapons 4 detente 4 refugees 4 poverty 3

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 Hillery 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