General Debate speaker
van Zeeland
Addressed the General Debate 5 times for Belgium, between 1949 and 1953 — 18,969 words in all. The longest was 1952, at 5,537.
Also recorded as “VAN ZEELAND”, “van ZEELAND”, — the roster spells one person several ways across the decades, and these statements are grouped as one.
Statements
| Year | Session | Office | Words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | 4 | not recorded | 3,021 |
| 1950 | 5 | not recorded | 3,154 |
| 1951 | 6 | not recorded | 4,069 |
| 1952 | 7 | not recorded | 5,537 |
| 1953 | 8 | not recorded | 3,188 |
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 16 colonialism 5 cold war 3 human rights 3 iron curtain 2 indigenous 2
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 van Zeeland 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.