General Debate speaker

Turbay Ayala

Addressed the General Debate 4 times for Colombia, between 1958 and 1961 — 12,186 words in all. The longest was 1960, at 4,594.

Also recorded as “TURBAY AYALA” — the roster spells one person several ways across the decades, and these statements are grouped as one.

02,5005,0001958: 1,957 words1959: 2,715 words1960: 4,594 words1961: 2,920 words19581961
Length of each statement, in words.

Statements

YearSessionOfficeWords
1958 13 not recorded 1,957
1959 14 not recorded 2,715
1960 15 not recorded 4,594
1961 16 not recorded 2,920

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 10 poverty 7 nuclear weapons 5 human rights 5 cold war 4 self determination 2 outer space 2 colonialism 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 Turbay Ayala 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.

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