General Debate speaker

Salim

Addressed the General Debate 3 times for Tanzania, between 1972 and 1982 — 11,553 words in all. The longest was 1972, at 5,202.

Also recorded as “SALIM”, — 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.

05,00010,0001972: 5,202 words1981: 2,552 words1982: 3,799 words19721982
Length of each statement, in words.

Statements

YearSessionOfficeWords
1972 27 not recorded 5,202
1981 36 not recorded 2,552
1982 37 not recorded 3,799

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 16 colonialism 12 apartheid 9 non aligned 8 detente 7 nuclear weapons 5 self determination 4 human rights 4

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 Salim 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