Hans Blix Quotes - Page 2

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• On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. There's no other way around. You have the instances like the global warming convention, the Kyoto protocol, when the U.S. went its own way.

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  War, Kyoto Protocol, Iraq

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

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  Rivers, People, East

  "Blix: I Was Smeared by the Pentagon". Interview with Helena Smith, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2003.

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• I have my detractors in Washington. There are bastards who spread things around, of course, who planted nasty things in the media. Not that I cared very much.

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  Media, Nasty, Spread

  "Blix: I Was Smeared by the Pentagon". Interview with Helena Smith, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2003.

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• We have not found any smoking guns.

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  Gun, Smoking, Found

  News conference, New York, N.Y., 9 Jan. 2003

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• I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.

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  War, Mean, Autumn

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• The world has gotten so interwoven.

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  World

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• But I would say if the Security Council is only relevant if it agrees with the United States, then we have come a long way in a direction that I do not like very much.

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  Pregnancy, Long, United States

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

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  Tools, Interviews, Certain

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• For some twenty years the window that opened at the end of the Cold War has been allowed to hang flapping in the wind. It is high time that the five nuclear-weapon states take seriously their commitment to negotiate toward nuclear disarmament.

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  Military, War, Commitment

  Hans Blix (2008). “Why Nuclear Disarmament Matters”, p.37, MIT Press

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