Hans Blix
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Hans Blix (born June 28, 1928 in Uppsala,Sweden) was the head of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission, a position he held from January 2000 to June 2003, when
he was succeeded by Demetrius Perricos.
In 2002, the commission began searching Iraq for weapons of mass destruction.
Blix had previously been the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (1981-1997) and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden (1978-1981). He chaired the Swedish Liberal Party's campaign during the 1980 Referendum on nuclear power.
In an interview on BBC TV on February 8, 2004, Dr. Blix accused the US and British governments of dramatising the threat of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, in order to strengthen the case for the 2003 war against the regime of Saddam Hussein.
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Quotes
- Blix stated on BBC TV's Breakfast With Frost (February 8, 2004):
- "It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it."
- Blix stated in the Guardian (June 11, 2003):
- "I have my detractors in Washington. There are bastards who spread things around, of course, who planted nasty things in the media."
- "There are people in [the Bush administration] who say they don't care if the UN sinks under the East River...and other crude things."
- "It's true that the Iraqis misbehaved and had no credibility, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they were in the wrong."
See also
- Mohamed ElBaradei
- Iraq disarmament crisis
- Iraq and weapons of mass destruction
- List of Swedish diplomats
External links
| Preceded by: [[Karin S�der]] | Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs | Succeeded by: Ola Ullsten |
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Hans_Blix" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Blix, used under the GNU Free Documentation License
