General Debate speaker
Van Der Stoel
Addressed the General Debate 6 times for Kingdom of the Netherlands, between 1973 and 1981 — 25,027 words in all. The longest was 1976, at 5,415.
Also recorded as “van der STOEL”, “Van der Stoel”, “van der Stoel”, “VAN DER STOEL”, — the roster spells one person several ways across the decades, and these statements are grouped as one.
Statements
| Year | Session | Office | Words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | 28 | not recorded | 3,580 |
| 1974 | 29 | not recorded | 3,700 |
| 1975 | 30 | not recorded | 3,657 |
| 1976 | 31 | not recorded | 5,415 |
| 1977 | 32 | not recorded | 4,151 |
| 1981 | 36 | not recorded | 4,524 |
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 79 detente 31 disarmament 20 nuclear weapons 17 apartheid 16 terrorism 13 torture 13 peacekeeping 10
Counts of words from a published list across these 6 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 Van Der Stoel 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.