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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.