General Debate speaker

Rakotomalala

Addressed the General Debate 3 times for Madagascar, between 1961 and 1967 — 6,754 words in all. The longest was 1961, at 2,532.

Also recorded as “RAKOTOMALALA”, — 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.

02,5005,0001961: 2,532 words1966: 2,463 words1967: 1,759 words19611967
Length of each statement, in words.

Statements

YearSessionOfficeWords
1961 16 not recorded 2,532
1966 21 not recorded 2,463
1967 22 not recorded 1,759

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

self determination 5 decolonization 5 disarmament 4 colonialism 3 cold war 3 outer space 2 apartheid 1 poverty 1

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 Rakotomalala 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