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
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.
Never humiliate anyone.
I don't think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear and rightly so are regional things, like in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, the Korean Peninsula, borders in Africa, etc.
But I would say if the Security Council is only relevant if it agrees with the United States, then we have come a long way in a direction that I do not like very much.
Even on television, the wavelengths that you use, they have to be distributed between countries.
By and large my relations with the US were good.