On 14 – 15 May 2007 Hans Blix visited Åland on invitation of the Åland Islands Peace Institute. Together with his wife Eva Kettis Hans Blix visited the Åland Islands Peace Institute, the Åland parliament and the Åland government. A trip was also made to Bomarsund and Kastelholm. On 14 May Hans Blix held a lecture at the town library of Mariehamn entitled “The Cold Peace. Time for Disarmament”.
Hans Blix is the chair of the International Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission, which initiated its work in 2004, and presented its report Weapons of Terror in May 2006. The report includes, among other things, sixty suggestions for nuclear disarmament. More information about the work of the commission can be found at www.wmdcommission.org.
Read a summary of the lecture, the reporting of Nya Åland on 15.5.2007, the interview and editorial of Nya Åland on 16.5.2007, as well as the column of consul general Bertil Jobeus in Västervikstidningen on 21.5.2007 (all in Swedish).
