General Debate speaker
Sir. Claude Corea
Addressed the General Debate 3 times for Sri Lanka, between 1958 and 1960 — 20,976 words in all. The longest was 1959, at 8,710.
Also recorded as “Sir Claude Corea”, “Sir Claude COREA” — the roster spells one person several ways across the decades, and these statements are grouped as one.
Statements
| Year | Session | Office | Words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | 13 | not recorded | 4,643 |
| 1959 | 14 | not recorded | 8,710 |
| 1960 | 15 | not recorded | 7,623 |
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 77 cold war 9 self determination 8 nuclear weapons 5 colonialism 4 poverty 3 apartheid 2 human rights 2
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 Sir. Claude Corea 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.