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As the United States heads for a showdown with Iraq, a Swedish diplomat is negotiating with the
regime of Saddam Hussein for the return of UN weapons inspectors. Closely identified with the
European perspective on Iraq, Hans Blix is hardly a reassuring figure for Americans prosecuting the
war on terror.
Blix, a former Swedish foreign minister, was called out of
retirement to take over UNMOVIC [United Nations Monitoring,
Verification and Inspection Commission], a new agency formed
in December 1999 to replace the UN Special Commission
[UNSCOM]. He is regarded as a suave, cool diplomat, the
consummate UN bureaucrat, having headed the UN International
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), in Vienna from 1981 to 1997.
Hans Blix: 'We cannot find everything in such a large
country'
Two years ago Blix told a disarmament magazine that he did
not think that Iraq was trying to rearm and that there was no
substantiation for media reports that said it was.