Hans Blix

Hans Martin Blix Swedish hɑːns ˈblɪks born 28 June 1928 is a Swedish diplomat and politician for the Liberal Peoples Party He was Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs 19781979 and later became the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency Blix was the first Western representative to inspect the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster in the Soviet Union onsite and led the agencys 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 US 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 Bush then ordered all of the weapons inspectors including Blixs team to leave Iraq so that America and its allies could invade Iraq on 20 March 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 Description above from the Wikipedia article Hans Blix licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia