The UN weapons inspector led the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq between 2000 and 2003 but none were discovered.

BBC: Hans Blix, Miranda Hart and Carl Bernstein

Baghdad demanded that any US delegation be accompanied by former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter - now a critic of US policy on Iraq.

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Television work includes Stephen Poliakoff's Gideon's Daughter, Love Soup by David Renwick and UN Weapons Inspector Eric Howlitt in the Newsnight film 10 Days To War.

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Lynndie England, the American soldier who became the face of the Abu Ghraib scandal, and the UN weapons inspector David Kelly, whose discussion with BBC journalist Andrew Gilligan prompted a huge political scandal about weapons of mass destruction.

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Moreover, even experts can disagree over how to interpret the evidence: Scott Ritter, a former UN weapons inspector, has been in Baghdad disputing, as he has for some years, the American claim that Iraq's weapons pose a threat.

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UN's chief weapons inspector, that they would no longer co-operate, claiming that Iraq has destroyed all its illegal weapons.

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On February 14th, Hans Blix, the UN's chief weapons inspector, told the council that although progress was slow, it was being made.

ECONOMIST: What now?

But coalition forces are still searching for evidence of Saddam's chemical, biological and nuclear programmes, and America remains distrustful of the UN's chief weapons inspector, Hans Blix.

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UN's chief weapons-inspector for Iraq, next addresses the Security Council on March 7th.

ECONOMIST: Dealing with Iraq

Any vote on a new resolution is expected to take place after Hans Blix, the chief weapons inspector, delivers his next report to the UN, probably on March 7th.

ECONOMIST: In need of resolution