Hans Blix
(1928-)

Swedish Diplomat, Politician
1st Executive Chairman of the United Nations
Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission
2007 Sydney Peace Prize Winner

birthdate: June 28
birthplace:
Uppsala, Sweden

QUOTES

Diplomacy is not just courtesy and correctness, but it is also trying to find a common denominator to solve disputes without the loss of face

I'm optimistic because there is a realization that the military means has proven very costly, both financially and in terms of lives lost

Unfortunately, the intervention in Iraq has been a tragedy, a debacle, and has demonstrated to the world the limits of military force. The strongest argument for doing anything preemptively would have been if Iraq were moving in a nuclear direction. But there was no infrastructure for it. We carried out 700 inspections in 500 different locations, but nowhere did we find weapons of mass destruction.

 

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