Hans Blix Quotes

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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…
• 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…
• 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…
• For some twenty years the window that opened at the end of the Cold War has been allowed to hang flapping in the wind. It…
• By and large my relations with the US were good.
• Even on television, the wavelengths that you use, they have to be distributed between countries.
• 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…
• I don't think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear and rightly so…
• 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…
• 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…
• Unlike South Africa, which decided on its own to eliminate its nuclear weapons and welcomed inspection as a means of creating confidence in its disarmament,…
• 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…
• It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• The nerve agent VX is one of the most toxic ever developed. 13,000 chemical bombs were dropped by the Iraqi Air Force between 1983 and…
• 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 inspections started in 1991, right after the Gulf War. One of the conditions for the ceasefire was that Iraq had to do away with…

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