SETA PUBLIC LECTURE: Prospects of Nuclear Disarmament and Nuclear Power
by Hans BLIX
Date / Time: November 5, 2010 Friday / 16.00 pm
Venue: SETA Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research, ANKARA
SETA invites you to participate in public lecture by the head of the UN weapons
inspectors in Iraq between 2000-2003, Hans Blix. As a renowned academician and
practitioner in the field of nuclear disarmament and nuclear energy, Hans Blix
has greatly received the attention of international public when he stated that
the invasion of Iraq was highly illegal as his inspectors found no weapons of
mass destruction in Iraq. In the current international environment where Iran's
nuclear power issue has escalated conflict with Iran, nuclear disarmament is of
paramount importance for the peace and stability in the Middle East, a region of
dense competition among states for nuclear programmes. Mr. Blix will address the
present challenges and opportunities on the way toward nuclear disarmament and
peace in the world in general, in the Middle East in particular.
We very much hope you will be able to attend this special public event.
Sincerely,
SETA Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research
Please kindly RSVP to info@setav.org
Dr. Hans Blix was born in 1928 in Uppsala, Sweden. He studied at the University
of Uppsala; at Columbia University, where he was also a research graduate; and
at Cambridge University, where he received his Ph.D. In 1959, he became Doctor
of Laws at the Stockholm University, and in 1960, was appointed Associate
Professor in International Law. He has an Honorary Doctorate from Moscow State
University (1987) and is a recipient of the Henry de Wolf Smyth Award
(Washington, DC, 1988). From 1963 to 1976, Dr. Blix was Head of Department at
the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and served as Legal Adviser on International
Law. In 1976, he became Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry for Foreign
Affairs, in charge of international development cooperation. He was appointed
Minister for Foreign Affairs in October 1978. From 1961 until 1981, he was a
member of Sweden's delegation to the United Nations General Assembly; and from
1962 to 1978, a member of the Swedish delegation to the Conference on
Disarmament in Geneva. He served as Director General of the International Atomic
Energy Agency from 1981 to 1997. He has written several books on subjects
associated with international and constitutional law and was a leader of the
Liberal Campaign Committee in favour of retention of the Swedish nuclear energy
programme in the referendum in 1980. Dr. Blix was appointed to his present
position by the UN Secretary-General in January 2000 and took up his duties on 1
March 2000. He ended his service as Executive Chairman on 30 June 2003 and
returned to his native Sweden.
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