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27 quotes by Hans Blix

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 lead the agency response to them. Blix was also...
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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... →

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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... →

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On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. There's no other way around. You have the instances... →

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

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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... →

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Now the idea about taking people abroad is that if they come over to Cyprus, which we have in mind, and bring their families and would have the... →

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International cooperation, multilateralism is indispensable.

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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