Hans Blix
Hans Blix
Hans Martin Blix; born 28 June 1928) is a Swedish diplomat and politician for the Liberal People's Party. He was Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairsand later became the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency. As such, Blix was the first Western representative to inspect the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster in the Soviet Union on site, and led the agency response to them. Blix was also the head of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission from March...
NationalitySwedish
ProfessionDiplomat
Date of Birth28 June 1928
CountrySweden
that could be risky from the point of view of proliferation.
is a disarmament resolution and not an inspection resolution.
Our inspectors had been there, and they had taken a lot of samples, and there was no trace of any chemicals or biological things, ... And the trucks that we had seen were water trucks.
Our role is not to humiliate the Iraqis.
I think it seems ... they are making an effort.
I think it's clear that in March, when the invasion took place, the evidence that had been brought forward was rapidly falling apart,
If the Iraqis were to use any chemical weapons, then I think the public opinion around the world would immediately turn against Iraq, and they would say, as well, that the invasion was justified.
What works best as a matter of psychology -- shouting or soft speaking with some leverage? Well I don't know -- my habit is not to shout.
He should not have had them. I asked him how he got them and he would not tell me,
There are still a number of questions, including the question of possible further external assistance to the nuclear program. You don't know what you don't know.
We know exactly who is going to be there, and the advance team that I am going to lead,
would seem to have only limited practical relevance in the current situation.
We had hoped that it would clarify a lot of issues that remained open since 1998. It did give information about peaceful programs concerning biology and chemistry, but it did not really shed any new evidence from the chemical weapons and biological weapons program.
The patience that they require for themselves now was not anything that they wanted to give to us,