Swedish UN weapons expert, Hans Blix not in support of bombing Syria

Wednesday, 28 August 2013
The Swedish former UN weapons inspector, Hans Blix is highly critical of any plans to bomb Syria and has vehemently made it clear that he is not in support of that.
Speaking to radio Sweden on Wednesday morning, he made his believe known that the various parties should instead sit down in the Security Council and unanimously condemning the use of chemical weapons.
“I think Russia, China and even Iran will go along in such denunciation of the use of chemical weapons. Maybe not to point out the regime unless the evidence is quite clear-cut, but a condemnation, I believe is better,” he said.

He continues, “even if the regime is not pointed out, one would get a consensus. Instead of that now, there is a deeper rift between the U.S. on one side and Russia and China on others,” says Hans Blix.
He believes that the next step after a joint condemnation of the use of chemical weapons is that a united Security Council would sits down and forces the parties in Syria to negotiate an end to the war.
Hans Blix is very critical of any strike on Syria
“Bombings will not lead to anything but a punishment,” says Hans Blix, and continues that more and more will instead see the U.S. continuing the Bush line to act as the world police, who do not care about the views of the  Security Council at all.”

Blix has previously criticized, the United States for acting too quickly before asking questions later. In January 2000 he was the chairman of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) which inquired if Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, as the U.S. and UK claimed.
Hans Blix and the UN weapons inspectors found no weapons of mass destruction during its inspections in autumn 2002 to winter 2003.
Blix information and or results was criticized by the U.S. and the Bush administration, which argued that Iraq had large, mobile laboratories for the production of chemical and biological weapons and large stockpiles of such weapons: it was also suggested that Iraq had or was trying to produce nuclear weapons.
Hans Blix was exposed during this time to fierce criticism, especially from those quarters that were positive for an invasion of Iraq.
Laboratories or stock related to weapons of mass destruction purported to have been starched in Iraq were never found, which in many places was seen as a vindication for Dr. Blix by the criticism of his work.
UN inspectors today continue with their investigation to determine the extents of the chemical weapons used just outside Damascus and who was behind the use.
By Scancomark.com Team