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
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.
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.
I have my detractors in Washington. There are bastards who spread things around, of course, who planted nasty things in the media.
Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms.
The U.N. is much more than the case of Iraq.
The world has gotten so interwoven.
International cooperation, multilateralism is indispensable.
I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.
There was a very consistent creation of a virtual reality, and eventually it collided with our old-fashioned, ordinary reality.
It's true the Iraqis misbehaved and had no credibility but that doesn't necessarily mean that they were in the wrong.
there are people in this administration who say they don't care if the UN sinks under the East river, and other crude things...
So interviews are a valuable tool, but under certain circumstances they'd be more valuable than others.
The recent inspection find in the private home of a scientist of a box of some 3,000 pages of documents, much of it relating to the laser enrichment of uranium support a concern that has long existed that documents might be distributed to the homes of private individuals. ...we cannot help but think that the case might not be isolated and that such placements of documents is deliberate to make discovery difficult and to seek to shield documents by placing them in private homes.
To me the question of the environment is more ominous than that of peace and war...I'm more worried about global warming than I am of any major military conflict.