Hans Blix Quotes
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.
Blix, Hans. Interview by Gideon Yago. MTV News, MTV, 14 Mar. 2003.
This is the clause that many Palestinians point to as supporting their position that even thought most Arab refugees left Israel voluntarily, they had a right of return.
Seeger had been a Communist in his youth and left the Party after Stalin’s excesses were disclosed, but he always espoused liberal causes like civil rights, rights of labor, freedom of speech and he was against the Vietnam War. Critics always accused him of hating America because he found fault with so much. See {639853} for more of his views on the subject.
Hans Martin Blix is a Swedish diplomat and politician for the Liberal People's Party. He was Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs (1978–1979) and later became the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency. As such, Blix was the first Western representative to inspect the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster in the Soviet Union on site, and led the agency response to them. Blix was also the head of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission from March 2000 to June 2003, when he was succeeded by Dimitris Perrikos. In 2002, the commission began searching Iraq for weapons of mass destruction, ultimately finding none. On 17 March 2003, U.S. President George W. Bush delivered an address from the White House announcing that within 48 hours, the United States would invade Iraq unless Saddam Hussein would leave Iraq. Bush then ordered all of the weapons inspectors, including Blix's team, to leave Iraq so that America and its allies could invade Iraq on March 20. In February 2010, Blix became head of the United Arab Emirates' advisory board for its nuclear power program. He is the former president of the World Federation of United Nations Associations.
