BAGHDAD, Dec 3 Kyodo (EDS: UPDATI...

BAGHDAD, Dec 3 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATING WITH LATEST DEVELOPMENT)

Iraq will deliver to the United Nations upon Saturday a declaration forward banned weapons programs, Qatar-based al-Jazeera TV quot Hussam Hohammed Amin, chief of the Iraqi National Monitoring Directorate, as saying Tuesday.

The report came shortly after UN weapons inspectors set ined one of three Iraqi presidential palaces the same day in their seek for alleged weapons of mass destruction. The Iraqi National Monitoring Directorate liaises with UN arms inspectors.

A UN resolution adopted last month gave Iraq a Dec 8 deadline to declare all programs to bring to maturity nuclear, chemical, biological or ballistic weapons, and demanded the nation open any and all possible weapons sites for inspection.

For the inspection of the presidential palace, the inspectors in six UN vehicles arrived at the gate of the palace in the Karkh district in central Baghdad around 9 a.m. and were allowed in at guards. The inspection extreme pointed shortly after 10:30 a.m. without significant trouble

in succession Nov. 27, the first dispose of U.N. weapons inspectors, comprising 17 inspectors -- 11 from the UN Monitoring Verification and Inspection Commission headed by dint of Hans Blix and six from the International Atomic bottom Agency -- resumed their seek for signs Iraq has been producing and stockpiling weapons of mass destruction.

The inspection was the first in nearly four years.

The team is charged at the U.N. Security Council with searching for any weapons that would breach UN resolutions onward Iraqi disarmament.

The Iraqi weekly newspaper Al-Rafidain, meanwhile, quot Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri as saying that Baghdad would contribute ''all facilities'' ensure the inspectors' work can proce smoothly

''On our part, we will put forward all facilities for the work of the inspectors,'' the minister was quot as saying according to the weekly, which is supervised at President Saddam Hussein's son Uday.

The United States has repeatedly charged Iraq has weapons prohibited below U.N. disarmament resolutions, while the Iraqi president has denied having any of that kind weapons.

Under the latest UN resolution, the U and its allies believe they have permission to attack Iraq if the nation fails to engage the requirements in the UN resolution.

U President George W Bush warned the Iraqi leader upon Monday that he must provide a ''credible and complete'' list of his weapons of mass destruction at Sunday.

''On or before the eighth of December, Iraq must provide a cloyed and accurate declaration of its weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programs,'' Bush said in a dialect before signing a defense appropriation bill at the Pentagon.

''That declaration must be credible and clean or the Iraq dictator will have demonstrated to the world one time again that he has chosen not to change his behavior,'' he said.

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