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Hans Blix Biography

Hans Martin Blix ( listen (help·info); born 28 June 1928) is a Swedish diplomat and politician for the Liberal People's Party. He was Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs (1978–1979) and 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 2000 to June 2003, when he was succeeded by Dimitris Perrikos. In 2002, the commission began searching Iraq for weapons of mass destruction, ultimately finding none. In February 2010, Blix became head of the United Arab Emirates' advisory board for its nuclear power program.

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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.

Difficult, Home, Homes, Iraq, Placing, Thinking

It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.

Dramatise, Information, Intention, Management

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

Countries, Country, Distributed, Television, Use, Wavelengths

There are people in this administration who say they don't care if the UN sinks under the East river, and other crude things.

East, People, Rivers, Things, Under

I did not think so at first. But the US is so incredibly dependent on oil, that they wanted to secure oil in case competition on the world market becomes too hard.

Thinking, Oil, Competition, World, Market

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.

Motivational, War, Iraq, Opt, Gone, Part

The inspections started in 1991, right after the Gulf War. One of the conditions for the ceasefire was that Iraq had to do away with all of its weapons of mass destruction - biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.

1991, Biological, Iraq, Mass Destruction, War, Weapons

By and large my relations with the US were good.

Good, Large, Relation, Relations

What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.

Military, People, Biological Warfare, Surprises, Gas, Weapons

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.

Pregnancy, Long, United States, States, Relevant, United

There was a very consistent creation of a virtual reality, and eventually it collided with our old-fashioned, ordinary reality.

Collided, Consistent, Creation, Ordinary, Reality

The world has gotten so interwoven.

Gotten, Interwoven, World

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.

Decision, Like, Nuclear, War

So interviews are a valuable tool, but under certain circumstances they'd be more valuable than others.

Certain, Interviews, Tools, Under, Valuable

Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms.

Environmental, Issues, Like, Long, Said

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.

Causes, United States, Dry, Perhaps, Take, Anthrax

Negotiations with Iran, especially, will not be easy under any circumstances, but I suspect that they might be somewhat less difficult if the nuclear-weapon states could show that their requests are part of a broader effort to lead the world, including themselves, toward nuclear disarmament. Preventing further proliferation is essential, but it is not a recipe for success to preach to the rest of the world to stay away from the very weapons that nuclear states claim are indispensable to their own security.

Including, Iran, Military, Nuclear Disarmament, Weapons, World

They have been saying for a long time that Iraq made an effort to import active uranium, and my colleague demonstrated the other day that they came to the conclusion that it was a fake document that everybody is relying upon.

Demonstrated, Everybody, Fake People, Iraq, Long, Relying

Never humiliate anyone.

Humiliate

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.

Climate, Military, War, Worried

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