Iraq to Meet Dec. 8 Deadline for Reporting Arms Programs

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Iraq to Meet Dec. 8 Deadline for Reporting Arms Programs

Iraq promised to meet a Dec. 8 deadline for reporting its weapons programs to the United Nations, UN and Iraqi officials said on Tuesday.

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Iraq promised to meet a Dec. 8 deadline for reporting its weapons programs to the United Nations, UN and Iraqi officials said on Tuesday.

"All Iraqi officials have committed to provide us full cooperation and full transparency," Mohamed ElBaradei, director of the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), told reporters following talks with Iraqi officials.

"They are working on that declaration and they will produce it by December 8," he added.

Amer Al-Saadi, a senior adviser to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, confirmed the promise.

"Within 30 days, as the resolution says, a report from Iraq willbe submitted on all the files of nuclear, chemical, biological and missile files," said Al-Saadi, who was also present at the meeting.

ElBaradei and chief UN arms inspector Hans Blix met Iraqi official for the second day after the significant return of UN armsinspectors to Iraq.

The newly-adopted UN Security Council Resolution 1441 requires Iraq provide, by a Dec. 8 deadline, a "currently accurate, full andcomplete" declaration of all aspects of its programs to develop weapons of mass destruction and systems to deliver them.

"Further material breach" of Iraq's obligations would incur " serious consequences," the UN document warned.

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