General Debate speaker
Van Elslande
Addressed the General Debate 3 times for Belgium, between 1973 and 1976 — 12,233 words in all. The longest was 1976, at 4,603.
Also recorded as “VAN ELSLANDE”, — 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 | 3,700 |
| 1975 | 30 | not recorded | 3,930 |
| 1976 | 31 | not recorded | 4,603 |
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 36 detente 18 disarmament 9 refugees 6 nuclear weapons 5 non proliferation 4 rule of law 4 torture 4
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 Van Elslande 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.