Hans Martin Blix (About this sound listen (help·info); 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 began searching Iraq for weapons of mass destruction, ultimately finding none. In February 2010, the Government of the United Arab Emirates announced that Blix will be the head of an advisory board for its nuclear power program.
Named as chairman of the newly formed International Commission on Weapons of Mass Destruction, which began its work in January 2004. The purpose of the commission is to find new ways to achieve the disarming and non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. [July 2003]
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Was the Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs in the short-lived Liberal government of 1978-1979.
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Enjoys reading Joseph Conrad and listening to the music of Mozart and Louis Armstrong.
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His father was a professor of chemistry.
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He served as Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency from 1981 to 1997.
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He became Doctor of Laws at the Stockholm University in 1959 and was appointed Associate Professor in International Law in 1960.
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He has an Honorary Doctorate from Moscow State University, is a recipient of the Henry de Wolf Smyth Award and of the Swedish Olof Palme Award.
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