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Hans Blix
Hans Martin Blix
(; born 28 June 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
. As such, Blix was the first Western representative to inspect the consequences of the
Chernobyl disaster
in the
Soviet Union
on site, and lead the agency response to them. Blix was also the head of the
United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission
from March 2000 to June 2003, when he was succeeded by
Dimitris Perrikos
. In 2002, the commission notably began searching
Iraq
for
weapons of mass destruction
, ultimately finding none. In February 2010, the government of the
United Arab Emirates
announced that Blix would be the head of an advisory board for its
nuclear power
program.
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