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
If there are any obstructions or problems, we will report them,
they know very well what they should provide. We have not seen it yet.
In the course of these inspections, we have not found any smoking gun.
Inspection is not a game of catch as catch can. Regrettably, the 12,000-page declaration, most of which is a reprint of earlier documents, does not seem to contain any new evidence that will eliminate the questions.
there are people in this administration who say they don't care if the UN sinks under the East river, and other crude things...
Disarmament by war and democracy by occupation are difficult prospects.
There was a very consistent creation of a virtual reality, and eventually it collided with our old-fashioned, ordinary reality.
But in the Middle Ages people were convinced there were witches. They looked for them and they certainly found them.
It's true the Iraqis misbehaved and had no credibility but that doesn't necessarily mean that they were in the wrong.
I have my detractors in Washington. There are bastards who spread things around, of course, who planted nasty things in the media.
If you take the biological weapons in the United States we still will have perhaps a single individual who was able to make anthrax, dry it, and spread it through the mail and cause terror.
Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid.
It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.