HANS BLIX SPEAKS TO ARAB LEAGUE AMBASSADOR AT THE UNITED NATIONS IN NEW YORK, 2003-06-05 (photo)

Chief U.N. arms inspector Dr. Hans Blix (L) speaks with Yahya Mahmassani, U.N. Ambassador from the Arab League, before addressing the United Nations Security Council at U.N. headquarters in New York, June 5, 2003. Making his final report to the Security Council before retiring, Blix said that although Iraq had left many questions unanswered about its unconventional weapons, one should not assume such dangerous arms still exist. Blix, who leaves his post in June as executive chairman of the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission, known as UNMOVIC, has been sidelined by the United States as it attempts to explain why it has not found dangerous weapons in Iraq after some 11 weeks of searches since the end of the war. REUTERS/Chip East CME/HB