General Debate speaker
U Thant
Addressed the General Debate 3 times for Myanmar, between 1957 and 1960 — 7,040 words in all. The longest was 1960, at 3,071.
Also recorded as “U THANT”, — the roster spells one person several ways across the decades, and these statements are grouped as one.
Statements
| Year | Session | Office | Words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | 12 | not recorded | 1,671 |
| 1958 | 13 | not recorded | 2,298 |
| 1960 | 15 | not recorded | 3,071 |
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 cold war 7 self determination 6 nuclear weapons 3 colonialism 1 poverty 1 refugees 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 U Thant 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.