General Debate speaker
Krishna Menon
Addressed the General Debate 5 times for India, between 1956 and 1961 — 76,962 words in all. The longest was 1960, at 22,003.
Also recorded as “Krishna MENON”, — the roster spells one person several ways across the decades, and these statements are grouped as one.
Statements
| Year | Session | Office | Words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | 11 | not recorded | 13,482 |
| 1957 | 12 | not recorded | 14,927 |
| 1958 | 13 | not recorded | 12,599 |
| 1960 | 15 | not recorded | 22,003 |
| 1961 | 16 | not recorded | 13,951 |
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 151 cold war 17 colonialism 11 nuclear weapons 10 human rights 8 refugees 7 self determination 4 apartheid 2
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 Krishna Menon 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.