General Debate speaker

Melo Franco

Addressed the General Debate 2 times for Brazil, between 1961 and 1962 — 5,799 words in all. The longest was 1962, at 3,438.

Also recorded as “MELO FRANCO” — the roster spells one person several ways across the decades, and these statements are grouped as one.

Statements

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 18 self determination 11 colonialism 10 cold war 6 outer space 4 nuclear weapons 3 human rights 3 refugees 1

Counts of words from a published list across these 2 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 Melo Franco 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.