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born 1928 Sweden

Hans Martin Blix (born June 28, 1928) is a Swedish diplomat and politician for the Liberal People's Party. He was Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs (1978–1979) and later became the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

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Also known as: Blix, Hans

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It's true the Iraqis misbehaved and had no credibility but that doesn't necessarily mean that they were in the wrong.

It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.

There was a very consistent creation of a virtual reality, and eventually it collided with our old-fashioned, ordinary reality.

But in the Middle Ages people were convinced there were witches. They looked for them and they certainly found them.

I have my detractors in Washington. There are bastards who spread things around, of course, who planted nasty things in the media.

… there are people in this administration who say they don't care if the UN sinks under the East river, and other crude things…

I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could — with 100 per cent certainty — know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Hans Blix (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.