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Chirac has emphasized that France supports the lifting of sanctions, but that it is up to the UN to determine how that could be done. And that means some tough bargaining lies ahead. Despite the elimination of Saddam Hussein's regime, ending sanctions is no simple matter for the UN...
Though it was not clear at the time, the attempt to build a unified international position on Iraq died that day. Everything that followed--the gnomic reports by Hans Blix, the U.N.'s chief biochemical-weapons inspector; Powell's presentation of new intelligence on Saddam's WMD capabilities; increasingly frantic...
The old order did not distinguish itself in the run-up to Iraq. The French preened for the pacifist European street. Hans Blix's inspection regime wasn't nearly as muscular as it needed to be. NATO fiddled; the U.N. failed. Reality dictates that changes will come. At the very...
The exact role of the United Nations in a post-Saddam Iraq remains the subject of intense transatlantic debate, but one certainty is that chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix will have no part in it. "My contract expires at the end of June," Blix told TIME on Thursday, "and...
The Pentagon has repeatedly complained to the U.N. about suspected bio agents being shuffled around Iraq in ?refrigerator vans.? Chief U.N. arms inspector Dr. Hans Blix told the Security Council in February that his teams ?had been unable to track down the refrigerator vans in question.?