General Debate speaker
Sir Carl Berendsen
Addressed the General Debate 4 times for New Zealand, between 1946 and 1950 — 16,941 words in all. The longest was 1946, at 5,711.
Also recorded as “Sir Carl BERENDSEN” — the roster spells one person several ways across the decades, and these statements are grouped as one.
Statements
| Year | Session | Office | Words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 | 1 | not recorded | 5,711 |
| 1947 | 2 | not recorded | 3,182 |
| 1949 | 4 | not recorded | 2,444 |
| 1950 | 5 | not recorded | 5,604 |
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
human rights 5 genocide 3 refugees 1
Counts of words from a published list across these 4 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 Sir Carl Berendsen 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.