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Hans Blix

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Swedish politician (born 1928)

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Works
21

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  • Probleme der nuklearen Nichtverbreitungspolitik
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Hans Blix are an improvisation trio from the USA consisting of Dan Venne (guitars - also of Cougar), Brian Scherman (Sax) and James WIndsor Wells (Drums/keys). Their first record was 'What's the highest number you can think of?' <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Hans+Blix">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Quotes

  • It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.
  • 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.
  • 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 this administration who say they don't care if the UN sinks under the East river, and other crude things…
  • It's true the Iraqis misbehaved and had no credibility but that doesn't necessarily mean that they were in the wrong.
  • But in the Middle Ages people were convinced there were witches. They looked for them and they certainly found them.

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Key facts

Preceded by
None
Succeeded by
Dimitris Perrikos
Monarch
Carl XVI Gustaf
Prime minister
Ola Ullsten
Born
Hans Martin Blix , ( 1928-06-28 ) 28 June 1928 (age 97) , Uppsala , Sweden
Party
Liberal People's Party
Spouse
Eva Kettis ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1962 ) ​
Parent s
Gunnar Blix , Hertha Wiberg

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Encyclopedic overview

Hans Martin Blix ( Swedish: [hɑːns ˈblɪks] ; 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. Blix was the first Western representative to inspect the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster in the Soviet Union on-site and led the agency's 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. On 17 March 2003, U.S. President George W. Bush delivered an address from the White House announcing that within 48 hours, the United States would invade Iraq unless Saddam Hussein would leave. Bush then ordered all of the weapons inspectors, including Blix's team, to leave Iraq so that America and its allies could invade Iraq on 20 March. In February 2010, Blix became head of the United Arab Emirates' advisory board for its nuclear power program. He is the former president of the World Federation of United Nations Associations.

Life and career

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hans Blix” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.