General Debate speaker
Yifru
Addressed the General Debate 8 times for Ethiopia, between 1961 and 1969 — 40,843 words in all. The longest was 1967, at 6,942.
Also recorded as “YIFRU”, — 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 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 16 | not recorded | 4,332 |
| 1962 | 17 | not recorded | 3,273 |
| 1964 | 19 | not recorded | 5,085 |
| 1965 | 20 | not recorded | 3,205 |
| 1966 | 21 | not recorded | 6,548 |
| 1967 | 22 | not recorded | 6,942 |
| 1968 | 23 | not recorded | 5,845 |
| 1969 | 24 | not recorded | 5,613 |
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 80 peacekeeping 27 nuclear weapons 25 colonialism 23 apartheid 22 human rights 13 non proliferation 13 non aligned 10
Counts of words from a published list across these 8 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 Yifru 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.