Iraqi Arms Declaration to be Released to 10 Security Council Members

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Iraqi Arms Declaration to be Released to 10 Security Council Members

The 10 elected members of the UN Security Council will get a working version of Iraq's declaration of its weapons programs on Tuesday.

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The 10 elected members of the UN Security Council will get a working version of Iraq's declaration of its weapons programs on Tuesday.

According to a spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan,the shorter and sanitized version of the report will be made available to the 10 nonpermanent members of the Security Council at 6:00 p.m. local time (GMT 2300).

Ewen Buchanan, spokesman for the Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC), told Xinhua that the censoring work on the dossier was prolonged due to "physical difficulties," and a final working version of the report will be released to the 10 elected members in forms of "hard print," which contains some 3,500 pages.

The spokesman refused to comment on the commission's first evaluation, which will be presented to the council on Thursday by its chairman Hans Blix and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Mohamed ElBaradei.

The five permanent council members -- the United States, Russia,China, Britain and France -- received the uncensored 12,000-page declaration of Baghdad's nuclear, chemical, biological and long-range missile programs over a week ago.

Chief UN inspector Hans Blix said his team had been busy preparing the main part of the document, which is focused on Iraq's chemical, biological and missile programs.

The council on Nov. 8 adopted resolution 1441 to offer Iraq a final opportunity to cooperate with inspectors. Under its terms, false statements or omissions in Iraq's weapons declaration, coupled with a failure to comply with inspections, would constitute a further "material breach" of Iraq's obligations that would lead to serious consequences.

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