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...ready for talks on reunification. The decision followed Greek Cypriot support for Annan's plan calling for Cypriot Greeks and Turks, divided since 1974, to unite under a six-member executive council and rotating presidency. IRAQ And What's in Here? After a gap of four years, Hans Blix and his United Nations inspectors began looking once more for proof of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. Inspectors visited two sites outside Baghdad and were expected to spread out across the country in search of possible mobile laboratories, underground factories and other signs of banned weapons. Though secrecy...
...comply. Even as the inspectors have upgraded their technology and know-how, of course, Saddam has spent the past four years conjuring new ways of keeping his most prized weapons out of reach. "The case of Iraq has stimulated all these new [inspection] techniques," chief weapons inspector Hans Blix, 74, the Swedish head of the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC), told TIME. "The troubling thing is that those who want to hide things are also becoming aware. The question is, Who is ahead...
...test begins with the arrival in Iraq of Blix and Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which is based in Vienna and is responsible for tracking Iraq's nuclear capabilities. The two diplomats will be accompanied by about 25 advisers and logistics staffers, who will reopen and begin outfitting the former Baghdad offices of the U.N. inspectors who left Iraq in 1998. Under the rules approved by the Security Council, Iraq must provide the U.N. with a full inventory of any weapons of mass destruction by Dec. 8. Though Saddam says he doesn't possess...
...heard that Hans Blix is soft. I'm not a pacifist. Diplomacy has to be backed by force...
...Blix, 74, has been entrusted with judgment calls that could delay or hasten war. He downplays the difficulty of his job - knowing when Iraq is trying to thwart his inspectors, he says, will "be a matter of common sense." Until last week the closest Blix had come to Baghdad in recent years was the satellite photo of the Iraqi capital that dominates one wall of his spartan office at U.N. headquarters in New York. The space reflects both Blix's low-key personality as well as the fact that nobody took UNMOVIC that seriously until two months ago, when President...