General Debate speaker

Lukanov

Addressed the General Debate 4 times for Bulgaria, between 1956 and 1961 — 24,630 words in all. The longest was 1958, at 7,812.

Also recorded as “LUKANOV” — 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 4 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.

05,00010,0001956: 4,214 words1958: 7,812 words1959: 4,847 words1961: 7,757 words19561961
Length of each statement, in words.

Statements

YearSessionOfficeWords
1956 11 not recorded 4,214
1958 13 not recorded 7,812
1959 14 not recorded 4,847
1961 16 not recorded 7,757

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 103 colonialism 20 nuclear weapons 11 cold war 9 self determination 5 poverty 1 non aligned 1 outer space 1

Counts of words from a published list across these 4 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 Lukanov 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