Hans Blix Quotes

• 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.

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• If public opinion still endorses military action that’s one thing, but if they wait maybe it will not. So it’s not only impatience, but there are several other factors.

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• I think that we have to do our job well, investigate thoroughly and then describe very honestly what we see to the Security Council. And some of the things might please people there and other things may not please the people.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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  I can imagine that the Iraqis undertake the destruction out of fear. If they had denied it, if they had said no, that certainly would have played into the hands of those that would like to take armed action immediately. I have no illusions in that regard.

   

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• I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that’s what we are trying to do as hard as we can.

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• Even on television, the wavelengths that you use, they have to be distributed between countries.

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• By and large my relations with the US were good.

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• 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.

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Hans Blix (30)

Birth:	28th June, 1928
Nationality:	Swedish
Profession:	Diplomat, Politician, Professor

About

Hans Martin Blix was born in Uppsala, Sweden. He is a Swedish diplomat and politician for the Liberal People's Party. He was Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1978–1979 and later became Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency. He was also Executive Chairman of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission from 2000- 2003, when he was succeeded by Dimitris Perrikos. He studied at Uppsala University and Columbia University, earning his PhD from the University of Cambridge. In 1959, he earned a Juris Doctor in International Law at Stockholm University, where he was appointed Associate Professor in International Law the next year. He has written several books include: Disarming Iraq, The Globalization of Peace, and Why Nuclear Disarmament Matters.

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