Hans Blix Quotes
We have not found any smoking guns.
Blix, Hans. Press Conference. United Nations Headquarters, 9 Jan. 2003, New York.
The response to the newspaper was required by law to be made promptly to the Journal’s Freedom of Information Act Letter Request. The failure to find the documents was not that unusual. However the legal request was properly made by the newspaper almost 15 years earlier. The original letter was send in October 1989. It took the CIA 15 years to say that they had not found any relevant documents. Incredibly enough this was not the oldest outstanding pending Freedom of Information Request. One had been submitted to the FBI in 1987 that had not then been responded to yet.
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.
