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
It feels like an intrusion into your integrity in a situation when you are actually on the same side,
The situation is tense at the moment, but there is a new opportunity and we are here to provide inspection which is credible.
In the course of these inspections, we have not found any smoking gun.
You never get quite down to the bottom of the barrel, but we are much higher than that at the present time. There is quite a lot left in the barrel that could be explained by them. If they have some weapons, if they have some anthrax, they should deliver that.
is a disarmament resolution and not an inspection resolution.
I think we have to learn what did they have. They say that they will adhere to the Non-Proliferation Treaty for nuclear weapons. They are already party to that treaty, and they have had inspections for years.
The document had been sitting with the CIA and their U.K. counterparts for a long while, and they had not discovered it, ... And I think it took the IAEA a day to discover that it was a forgery.
I think they lost their patience much too early,
If there are any obstructions or problems, we will report them,
They sort of showered us with letters trying to explain this or that.
perhaps the most important problem we are facing.
how fast one can proceed with the key remaining disarmament tasks.
I think it's clear that in March, when the invasion took place, the evidence that had been brought forward was rapidly falling apart,
Sorry, but in the chemical sector we can't go that far.