UNMOVIC chief Hans Blix prepared for new round of weapons inspections in Iraq

From: The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs | Date: August 1, 2002| Author: Williams, Ian | Copyright information

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Hans Blix is one of the archetypal Swedes who have kept the U.N. running for half a century. Some, like Count Folke Bernadotte, died as a result of the Middle Eastern conflict. Others, like Blix's predecessor, UNSCOM head Rolf Ekeus, were caught between the millstones of Washington and Baghdad.

Blix first came to the U.N. as a student in 1950, he reminisced in a recent interview with the Washington Report. At that time, in order to bypass Moscow's Security Counc...

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