Quotes by Hans Blix - Page 1

Never humiliate anyone.
Hans Blix / Swedish Politician
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The world has gotten so interwoven.
Hans Blix / Swedish Politician
Gotten
Interwoven
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We have not found any smoking guns.
Hans Blix / Swedish Politician
Found
Gun
Smoking
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The U.N. is much more than the case of Iraq.
Hans Blix / Swedish Politician
Cases
Iraq
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By and large my relations with the US were good.
Hans Blix / Swedish Politician
Relations
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International cooperation, multilateralism is indispensable.
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Cooperation
Indispensable
International
International Cooperation
Multilateralism
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Disarmament by war and democracy by occupation are difficult prospects.
Hans Blix / Swedish Politician
War
Democracy
Occupation
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It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.
Hans Blix / Swedish Politician
Information
Intention
Management
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Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms.
Hans Blix / Swedish Politician
Environmental
Arms
Environmental Issues
Issues
Long
Term
Worried
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Even on television, the wavelengths that you use, they have to be distributed between countries.
Hans Blix / Swedish Politician
Country
Television
Use
Countries
Distributed
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So interviews are a valuable tool, but under certain circumstances they'd be more valuable than others.
Hans Blix / Swedish Politician
Certain
Circumstances
Interviews
Tools
Valuable
More Others Than
Tool
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But in the Middle Ages people were convinced there were witches. They looked for them and they certainly found them.
Hans Blix / Swedish Politician
Age
People
Witch
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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.
Hans Blix / Swedish Politician
Credibility
Mean
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There are people in this administration who say they don't care if the UN sinks under the East river, and other crude things.
Hans Blix / Swedish Politician
East
People
Rivers
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There was a very consistent creation of a virtual reality, and eventually it collided with our old-fashioned, ordinary reality.
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Creation
Ordinary
Reality
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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 I cared very much.
Hans Blix / Swedish Politician
Media
Nasty
Spread
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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 of any major military conflict.
Hans Blix / Swedish Politician
War
Climate
Military
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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 on the world market becomes too hard.
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Competition
Oil
Thinking
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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 and biological weapons.
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Biological Warfare
Biological Weapons
Expecting
Gas
Military
People
Weapons
Amazes
Biological
Chemical
Surprises
Quantities
Stumble
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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 way in a direction that I do not like very much.
Hans Blix / Swedish Politician
Agree
Council
Long
Long Way
Pregnancy
Relevant
Security
Security Council
United States
Direction
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If public opinion still endorses military action that's one thing, but if they wait maybe it will not. So it's not only impatience, but there are several other factors.
Hans Blix / Swedish Politician
Action
Factors
Impatience
Military
Military Action
Opinion
Public Opinion
Wait
Several
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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 weapons of mass destruction, they are weapons of self-destruction.
Hans Blix / Swedish Politician
Destruction
Mass
Mass Destruction
Self Destruction
Threatened
Weapons
Iranians
Saudi
Turks
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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.
Hans Blix / Swedish Politician
Knowledge
Zero
Action
Certainty
Military
Military Action
Peculiar
Weapons
Cent
Existed
Per
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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, dry it, and spread it through the mail and cause terror.
Hans Blix / Swedish Politician
Anthrax
Biological Weapons
Dry
Mail
Spread
Terror
United States
Weapons
Biological
Single Individual
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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, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
Hans Blix / Swedish Politician
Motivational
War
Disarmament
Iraq
Forced
Otherwise
Spontaneously
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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 in the walls, and you cannot be absolutely sure that you get a straight testimony.
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Bugs
Democratic
Testimony
Carry
Democratic State
Pocket
Recorder
Therefore
Walls
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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 doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid.
Hans Blix / Swedish Politician
War
Apartheid
Cold
Cold War
Decision
Doubted
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapons
Prove
Weapons
African
War World Cold War
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I think that we have to do our job well, investigate thoroughly and then describe very honestly what we see to the Security Council. And some of the things might please people there and other things may not please the people.
Hans Blix / Swedish Politician
Council
Honestly
Please
Security Council
May People See
Describe
Investigate
Thoroughly
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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 they came to the conclusion that it was a fake document that everybody is relying upon.
Hans Blix / Swedish Politician
Active
Conclusion
Effort
Fake
Fake People
Iraq
Long
Long Time
Uranium
Time Long Day
Colleague
Document
Import
Relying
Saying
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Now the idea about taking people abroad is that if they come over to Cyprus, which we have in mind, and bring their families and would have the possibility to defect after they would be ready to speak their mind, well I hope so.
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Cyprus
Possibility
Ready
Abroad
Defect
Families
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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 the instances like the global warming convention, the Kyoto protocol, when the U.S. went its own way.
Hans Blix / Swedish Politician
War
Global Warming
Iraq
Kyoto Protocol
Protocol
Convention
Global
Multilateral
Warming
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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 are regional things, like in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, the Korean Peninsula, borders in Africa, etc.
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Borders
East
Etc
Middle East
Pakistan
Thinking
Together
Africa
Blown
Fears
Peninsula
Regional
Rightly
Seriously
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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 do away with all of its weapons of mass destruction - biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.
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War
Conditions
Destruction
Gulf War
Inspection
Iraq
Mass
Mass Destruction
Missiles
Nuclear
Weapons
Biological
Chemical
Gulf
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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 is high time that the five nuclear-weapon states take seriously their commitment to negotiate toward nuclear disarmament.
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War
Commitment
Military
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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, that certainly would have played into the hands of those that would like to take armed action immediately. I have no illusions in that regard.
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Action
Denied
Destruction
Imagine
Regard
Said
Armed
Played
Certainly
Illusions
Immediately
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Undertake
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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 him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.
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War
Assured
Autumn
Iraq
Mean
Peaceful
President
Disarm
Hear
Last
Met
Resort
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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 quite a lot left in the barrel that could be explained by them. If they have some weapons, if they have some anthrax, they should deliver that.
Hans Blix / Swedish Politician
Anthrax
Bottom
Higher
Present Time
Weapons
Time Never Down
Barrel
Deliver
Explained
Present
Quite A Lot
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Look at the Palestinians with the huge, huge percentage of unemployed. What does that breed? Anyone who's unemployed in the world, you feel there's no meaning and there's a risk that you drift over to something desperate. Yes, we have to tackle the social problems as well.
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Desperate
Risk
Social Problems
Unemployed
Breed
Drift
Meaning
Palestinians
Percentage
Tackle
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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 1988, while Iraq has declared that 19,500 bombs were consumed during this period. Thus, there is a discrepancy of 6,500 bombs. The amount of chemical agent in these bombs would be in the order of about 1,000 tonnes.
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Air
Iraq
Order
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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 disarmament, Iraq appears not to have come to a genuine acceptance - not even today - of the disarmament, which was demanded of it and which it needs to carry out to win the confidence of the world and to live in peace.
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Acceptance
Mean
Winning
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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 laser enrichment of uranium support a concern that has long existed that documents might be distributed to the homes of private individuals. On our side, we cannot help but think that the case might not be isolated and that such placements of documents is deliberate to make discovery difficult and to seek to shield documents by placing them in private homes.
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Home
Discovery
Thinking
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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 the nuclear-weapon states could show that their requests are part of a broader effort to lead the world, including themselves, toward nuclear disarmament. Preventing further proliferation is essential, but it is not a recipe for success to preach to the rest of the world to stay away from the very weapons that nuclear states claim are indispensable to their own security.
Hans Blix / Swedish Politician
Iran
Military
Nuclear Disarmament
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