Israel Quotes by Hans Blix

9 Israel quotes by Hans Blix

Hans Blix’s nine remarks on Israel give a focused glimpse into his diplomatic lens. Though modest in number, each line captures a distinct angle, making this a handy starter for anyone curious about his take on the region.

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The Iraqis are not threatened by the Turks or by the Iranians or by the Saudis and they tell me that these…

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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…

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It's true the Iraqis misbehaved and had no credibility but that doesn't necessarily mean that they were in the wrong.

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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it,…

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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The inspections started in 1991, right after the Gulf War. One of the conditions for the ceasefire was that Iraq had to…

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Negotiations with Iran, especially, will not be easy under any circumstances, but I suspect that they might be somewhat less difficult if…

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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…

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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,…

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The country is not a democratic state. Therefore we fear that they might carry a recorder in their pocket or there may be bugs…

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We have not found any smoking guns.

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Never humiliate anyone.

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Unlike South Africa, which decided on its own to eliminate its nuclear weapons and welcomed inspection as a means of creating confidence in its…

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It's true the Iraqis misbehaved and had no credibility but that doesn't necessarily mean that they were in the wrong.

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You never get quite down to the bottom of the barrel, but we are much higher than that at the present time. There is…

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The U.N. is much more than the case of Iraq.

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I have my detractors in Washington. There are bastards who spread things around, of course, who planted nasty things in the media. Not that…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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

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The Iraqis are not threatened by the Turks or by the Iranians or by the Saudis and they tell me that these are not…

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