UNITED NATIONS/ AUSTRIA: U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL MEMBERS NAME SWEDE HANS BLIX AS HEAD OF REVAMPED DISARMAMENT AGENCY "UNMOVIC"

Record ID: 980093

  • Title: UNITED NATIONS/ AUSTRIA: U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL MEMBERS NAME SWEDE HANS BLIX AS HEAD OF REVAMPED DISARMAMENT AGENCY "UNMOVIC"
  • Date: 26th January 2000
  • Summary: VIENNA, AUSTRIA (FILE MAY, 1995)(REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. LV/PAN UP: EXTERIOR OF INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY (IAEA) HEADQUARTERS N (2 SHOTS) 0.07 2. SV/SCU: FORMER IAEA DIRECTOR-GENERAL HANS BLIX BEING INTERVIEWED (3 SHOTS) 0.36 UNITED NATIONS (JANUARY 26, 2000) (UNTV - ACCESS ALL) 3. SCU: (SOUNDBITE)(English) U.S. AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED NATIONS RICHARD HOLBROOKE SAYING:" As you know, last week the Security Council received from the Secretary-General the nomination of Rolf Ekeus to head UNMOVIC (U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission). I am now going to report to the Secretary-General that the Security Council has been unable to reach consensus of Rolf Ekeus. Although even countries who did not wish to have consensus expressed personal admiration and respect for his long and distinguished career as an international civil servant and a senior diplomat of Sweden. We have further discussed a number of other candidates and found consensus on only one - Hans Blix of Sweden - another very distinguished international civil servant whose career most notably included leadership of the IAEA in Vienna. We are therefore passing his name on to the Secretary-General of the United Nations immediately for consideration by the Secretary-General for further action." 1.45 4. SCU: (SOUNDBITE)(English) IRAQI AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED NATIONS SAEED HASAN SAYING: "As has been stated by Mr Tariq Aziz and other Iraqi officials on different ocassions, devil or angel the new chairman will be, will not change much and the scheme which has been prepared by the United States and (U.N.) Resolution 1284. This resolution is not implementable, is not working and will not work. The United States violating Iraqi sovereignity, territorial integrity daily, violating the charter of the United Nations daily, bombing Iraq through the no-fly zones. This resolution does not take in consideration the previous activities of the special commission - the espionage activities. And nor the Security Council nor the Secretary-General bothered to investigate these cases and see whether this took place or not......it took place and nobody cared about it and it was a big humiliation and it hurts a lot the credibility of the United Nations." 3.17 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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