http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2268819.stm
But Mr Blix is well-used to feeling the heat over Iraq.
As director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) from 1981 to 1997, he was in charge of overseeing inspections of the country's nuclear programme.
During that time, the Iraqis managed to hide an advanced nuclear weapons development programme from the IAEA. It was only discovered after the Gulf War in 1991.
Mr Blix has been keen to be seen as independent from Washington
Last year, the Pentagon ordered a CIA investigation into how the IAEA could have erred.
Mr Blix says the experience taught him something. "It's correct to say that the IAEA was fooled by the Iraqis," he said recently.
idiot.
The same atomic commission that oversaw the North Korean creation of nuclear weapons from the material slick willie provided? Why NK bothered to throw the inspectors out just recently is beyond me, they saw nothing, said nothing, know nothing.