General Debate speaker

Rapacki

Addressed the General Debate 6 times for Poland, between 1957 and 1964 — 22,238 words in all. The longest was 1962, at 4,776.

Also recorded as “RAPACKI”, — 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 6 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.

02,5005,0001957: 3,057 words1958: 3,055 words1959: 3,314 words1961: 4,585 words1962: 4,776 words1964: 3,451 words19571964
Length of each statement, in words.

Statements

YearSessionOfficeWords
1957 12 not recorded 3,057
1958 13 not recorded 3,055
1959 14 not recorded 3,314
1961 16 not recorded 4,585
1962 17 not recorded 4,776
1964 19 not recorded 3,451

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 74 nuclear weapons 40 colonialism 22 self determination 11 cold war 9 non aligned 3 outer space 2 detente 1

Counts of words from a published list across these 6 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 Rapacki 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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