General Debate speaker
Umba-di-Lutete
Addressed the General Debate 5 times for Democratic Republic of the Congo, between 1967 and 1978 — 20,886 words in all. The longest was 1974, at 4,977.
Also recorded as “Umba di Lutete”, “UMBA DI LUTETE”, — the roster spells one person several ways across the decades, and these statements are grouped as one.
The record gives a surname and no more. United Nations rosters before the mid-1990s often record only a family name, so these 5 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.
Statements
| Year | Session | Office | Words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | 22 | not recorded | 3,992 |
| 1968 | 23 | not recorded | 4,301 |
| 1974 | 29 | not recorded | 4,977 |
| 1977 | 32 | not recorded | 3,235 |
| 1978 | 33 | not recorded | 4,381 |
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
apartheid 15 disarmament 12 decolonization 10 colonialism 9 nuclear weapons 8 self determination 7 human rights 6 poverty 5
Counts of words from a published list across these 5 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 Umba-di-Lutete 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.