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...Bush administration's trigger-mechanism for war with Iraq has a name: Hans. Hans Blix. The 74-year-old Swede is the head of UNMOVIC, the UN arms inspection program that will be sent back into Iraq once the Security Council agrees on the text of a new disarmament resolution, and his judgment could well mean the difference between war and peace. According to the deal currently being brokered at the Security Council, Blix will report on whether Iraq is complying - and if the answer is no, Washington will almost certainly go to war. He'll likely...
...that U.N. rules on inspections be rewritten before personnel go to Iraq. Baghdad had refused to allow the surprise inspection of Saddam's 57 palaces. China and Russia disagreed with the U.S., and Russian President Vladimir Putin called for "the quickest possible deployment" of inspectors. But chief inspector Hans Blix said: "It would be awkward if we were doing inspections and a new mandate were to arrive." At week's end, the U.S. seemed ready to accept a compromise French proposal for two new resolutions, for inspections and military reprisals. And the U.S. was also likely to assure Russia, China...
...When Saddam offered two weeks ago to submit to unfettered inspections, the Security Council's response was to send UN inspection chief Hans Blix to Vienna to discuss practical arrangements for resuming such inspections. But in the absence of any new Security Council resolution changing the terms of inspections, Blix is working off the existing script - one which is unlikely to satisfy U.S. demands. Indeed, media reports claim that a new Security Council draft resolution being proposed by the U.S. and Britain includes demands for access to the presidential sites and all other government buildings and mosques; for security forces...
Headed by legal expert and former atomic-agency director Hans Blix, UNMOVIC was authorized under softer terms after the former U.N. inspection team, UNSCOM, was barred from Iraq in December 1998. Since then, Blix has assembled 220 experts from 45 countries: 80 at a time will work from Baghdad using five helicopters. Personnel include military specialists, biochemists and engineers, all seconded to U.N. employ and financed by a tax on Iraq's U.N.-run oil-for-food program...
...concessions from the U.S. on its own demand to be authorized to pursue Chechen rebels into neighboring Georgia, and guarantees that its economic stake will be recognized in a post-Saddam Iraq - although they may want to delay such a resolution at least until chief UN arms inspector Hans Blix returns from a September 30 meeting with Iraqi officials in Vienna to finalize arrangements for the inspectors' return...