|
Affiliation | Liberal |
|
Name | Hans Blix |
Address | Uppsala, , Sweden |
Email | None |
Website | None |
Born |
June 28, 1928
(95 years)
|
Contributor | 411 Name Removed |
Last Modifed | Juan Croniqueur Nov 01, 2023 07:22pm |
Tags |
|
Info | Hans Blix is a Swedish politician. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs 1978-1981. Blix was also the head of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission 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 chaired the Swedish Liberal Party's campaign during the 1980 Referendum on nuclear power.
While head of the IAEA in the 1980's, Blix made repeated inspection visits to Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor before its destruction by the Israeli Air Force. Despite the regular inspections of Iraq's research facilities, Blix and the IAEA never discovered a highly advanced nuclear weapons program in Iraq. In fact Iraq was repeatedly praised by the IAEA for its full cooperation with the IAEA. It was only after the first Gulf War that the full extent of Iraq's nuclear programs were known.
In an interview on BBC TV on February 8, 2004, Dr. Blix accused the U.S. 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.
In 2004, Blix published a book, Disarming Iraq, where he gives is account of the events and inspections before the United States began its invasion.
|
| BOOKS |
|
|
Title |
Purchase |
Contributor |
|
Start Date |
End Date |
Type |
Title |
Contributor |
|
Date |
Category |
Headline |
Article |
Contributor |
|
| INFORMATION LINKS |
|
|
|