General Debate speaker

Semedo

Addressed the General Debate 3 times for Guinea-Bissau, between 1984 and 1989 — 7,367 words in all. The longest was 1984, at 3,372.

Also recorded as “. SEMEDO”, “SEMEDO” — 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.

02,5005,0001984: 3,372 words1986: 2,419 words1989: 1,576 words19841989
Length of each statement, in words.

Statements

YearSessionOfficeWords
1984 39 not recorded 3,372
1986 41 not recorded 2,419
1989 44 not recorded 1,576

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

apartheid 9 non aligned 5 disarmament 3 decolonization 3 detente 2 poverty 2 self determination 1 desertification 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 Semedo 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