Blix: Diplomacy forced Libya to give up WMD

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Former UN chief weapons inspector contradicts US claims war on Iraq forced Libya to give up its nuclear quest.


STOCKHOLM - Contrary to recent US claims that its war on Iraq forced Libya to give up its nuclear weapons program, former UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix said Thursday that diplomacy should be given most of the credit.

"I think the dialogue in Libya started before the war," Blix said, speaking in Stockholm at the first meeting of a new international commission on weapons of mass destruction, of which he is chairman.

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"It happened by a shift of the pattern of profit... all of them were moving towards democracy and better relations with their neighbors... The evidence is... that this is the normal way forward," he said.

"It would seem to me a little against reason, just because of one instance we have had, suddenly to conclude that military pressure is the only way to deproliferate," she added.


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