General Debate speaker

Ngarukiyintwali

Addressed the General Debate 8 times for Rwanda, between 1979 and 1988 — 34,859 words in all. The longest was 1985, at 6,043.

Also recorded as “NGARUKIYINTWALI”, — 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 8 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.

05,00010,0001979: 4,355 words1981: 3,841 words1983: 5,199 words1984: 5,813 words1985: 6,043 words1986: 2,447 words1987: 3,012 words1988: 4,149 words19791988
Length of each statement, in words.

Statements

YearSessionOfficeWords
1979 34 not recorded 4,355
1981 36 not recorded 3,841
1983 38 not recorded 5,199
1984 39 not recorded 5,813
1985 40 not recorded 6,043
1986 41 not recorded 2,447
1987 42 not recorded 3,012
1988 43 not recorded 4,149

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

detente 24 disarmament 23 self determination 22 new economic order 19 apartheid 17 decolonization 10 colonialism 9 poverty 9

Counts of words from a published list across these 8 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 Ngarukiyintwali 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.

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