General Debate speaker

Simbananiye

Addressed the General Debate 3 times for Burundi, between 1972 and 1974 — 20,297 words in all. The longest was 1972, at 7,499.

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: 7,499 words1973: 5,950 words1974: 6,848 words19721974
Length of each statement, in words.

Statements

YearSessionOfficeWords
1972 27 not recorded 7,499
1973 28 not recorded 5,950
1974 29 not recorded 6,848

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

colonialism 29 disarmament 20 apartheid 11 genocide 11 non aligned 8 decolonization 6 self determination 5 nuclear weapons 5

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 Simbananiye 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