106 Quotes by Hans Blix

The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid.

I don't think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear and rightly so are regional things, like in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, the Korean Peninsula, borders in Africa, etc.

By and large my relations with the US were good.

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

So interviews are a valuable tool, but under certain circumstances they'd be more valuable than others.

The Iraqis are not threatened by the Turks or by the Iranians or by the Saudis and they tell me that these are not weapons of mass destruction, they are weapons of self-destruction.

We know exactly who is going to be there, and the advance team that I am going to lead,

would seem to have only limited practical relevance in the current situation.

There are very many of these missiles and a lot of items that pertain to them, which we had enumerated in our letter. It is a very significant piece of real disarmament.