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Chief Weapons Inspector to Quit
A United Nations spokesman says Hans Blix has decided not to renew his contract even if weapons inspectors go back into Iraq.
From Reuters
9:17 AM PST, March 28, 2003
UNITED NATIONS -- Chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix, who oversaw the return of arms inspectors to Iraq before the war, will leave his post when his contract expires in June, a spokesman said today.
Blix, a Swede who was pulled out of retirement three years ago and turns 75 in June, has decided not to continue in the job, even if weapons inspectors are asked to return to Iraq after the U.S.-led war.
"His contract expires at the end of June and he doesn't intend to renew it," said Ewen Buchanan, spokesman for the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission or UNMOVIC, which Blix heads.
Blix himself first released the news in a Thursday interview with Nippon TV, saying, "My contract expires at the end of June and I do not propose to stay beyond that."
In recent interviews and news conferences, Blix has been vocal about his disappointment that negotiations among Security Council members fell apart and he was forced to withdraw inspectors after only 3 1/2 months in the country.
He also has challenged some assertions made by the United States, saying that some of the evidence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction was invalid. And in recent days he questioned whether Iraq had really fired a banned Scud ballistic missile into Kuwait rather than a smaller missile.
But he has repeatedly said that Iraq had been late in cooperating with the inspectors and never accounted for all its biological and chemical weapons.
Blix, a former foreign minister and lawyer, is expected to return to his home in Stockholm.
He had been head of the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency for 16 years, retiring in 1997.
But his retirement did not last very long. He and his wife, Eva, then a Swedish government adviser on Arctic and Antarctic affairs, had left Patagonia on a cruise ship for Antarctica in January 2000 when U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan called to ask if he would become the executive chairman of UNMOVIC.
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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/diplomacy/la-iraq-032803blix_wr,1,3413915.story?coll=la%2Dutil%2Dnavigation%2Diraq
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