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Hans Blix

Michael Elleman (R), Senior Fellow for Regional Security Cooperation at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), talks to former UN inspector Hans Blix during a press gathering in Dubai on March 5, 2013. Ten years after the US-led invasion on Iraq, accused at the time of hiding weapons of mass destruction, Blix urged world powers to avoid committing the same error in launching a war against Iran.

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About Hans Blix

Hans Martin Blix (help·info) (born 28 June 1928 in Uppsala, Sweden) is a Swedish diplomat and politician. He was Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs (1978 - 1979). 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 Demetrius Perricos. In 2002, the commission began searching Iraq for weapons of mass destruction, ultimately finding none. He is the son of professor Gunnar Blix and Hertha Wiberg and grandson of professor Magnus Blix. He comes from a family of Jamtlandic origin.

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