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
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.
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.
Sorry, but in the chemical sector we can't go that far.
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.
would seem to have only limited practical relevance in the current situation.
We know exactly who is going to be there, and the advance team that I am going to lead,
There are very many of these missiles and a lot of items that pertain to them, which we had enumerated in our letter. It is a very significant piece of real disarmament.
Our role is not to humiliate the Iraqis.
It feels like an intrusion into your integrity in a situation when you are actually on the same side,
I think they lost their patience much too early,
I think the more evidence that is placed on the table, if there is some, the better,
or any other very sensitive thing, we'll say cannot be circulated to anybody.
that could be risky from the point of view of proliferation.
is a disarmament resolution and not an inspection resolution.