Rolf Ekéus

Rolf Ekeus on February 14, 2006 (Photo by Michail Evstafjew)

Carl Rolf Ekéus (born July 7, 1935 in Kristinehamn ) is a Swedish diplomat .

In 1991, Ekéus was appointed spokesman for the United Nations Special Commission on Disarmament in Iraq . At that time he was Sweden's ambassador to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) . In the same year he and Hans Blix visited Iraq and persuaded the government there to let the UN commission UNSCOM on weapons inspections into the country. The USA sponsored Ekéus' candidacy as head of weapons inspections in the fall of 2002 and spring of 2003 in place of Blix. After the Iraq war , Ekéus criticized Blix for being naive and overly soft towards Saddam Hussein . Ekéus, like the Bush administration , claimed that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction in storage.

Ekéus was High Commissioner for National Minorities of the OSCE in The Hague from 2001 to 2007 and is a board member of the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) and Commissioner of the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP).

Between 2002 and 2010, Rolf Ekéus was the management spokesman of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) . He is a member of the European Leadership Network .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ambassador Rolf Ekeus ( Memento of the original dated May 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English, with picture) 
2. ↑ Rolf Ekéus Joins ICMP Commission ( Memento of the original from June 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) 
3. ^ Rolf Ekéus | SIPRI. Retrieved August 23, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from July 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

predecessor	Office	successor
Henrik Liljegren	Swedish Ambassador to Washington, DC 1997–2000	Jan Eliasson