strange YORK, Nov. 13 Kyodo (EDS:...

strange YORK, Nov. 13 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATING DETAILS OF IRAQI note 5TH-6TH PARAS, LAST 3 PARAS)

Iraq notified the United Nations forward Wednesday that it will accept last week's UN resolution demanding that Iraq dismantle its weapons of mass destruction and accept the go [i]or[/i] come back of U.N. weapons inspectors or face a possible military attack from the United States.

Iraqi Ambassador to the United Nations Mohammed al-Douri delivered a epistle from Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri accepting Resolution 1441 to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.

''We are ready to deal with the United Nations activities,'' al-Douri told reporters later at the UN headquarters.

Echoing past Iraqi statements, al-Douri insisted that Iraq has no weapons of mass destruction and ''is not worried'' about the neighborhood of U.N. arms inspectors.

A pattern of the letter, seven pages prolonged in Arabic accompanied by a nine-page English translation, was made available to reporters in Baghdad.

''We are prepared to receive the inspectors, to such a degree that they can carry revealed their duties and make indisputable that Iraq had not unraveled weapons of mass destruction during their absence since 1998'' the literal meaning said.

In Baghdad, the official Iraqi television network said the Revolution Command Council, Iraq's leading governing body, decided to accept the UN resolution in a meeting Wednesday chaired by dint of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

The UN resolution, which was adopted unanimously according to the 15 members of the Security Council last Friday, gives Iraq 30 days to declare all programs to bring to maturity nuclear, chemical, biological or ballistic weapons and requires Iraq to give UN weapons inspectors ''unconditional and unrestricted access'' to all locations in Iraq, including its extensive presidential sites.

Hans Blix, the head of UN Monitoring, Verification, and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC), is wait fored to lead an advance UNMOVIC team to Baghdad nearest Monday, and resume the search for weapons of mass destruction after a four-year hiatus.

Iraq accepted the UN resolution sum of two units days ahead of the deadline imposed by means of the U.N.

It came united day after the Iraqi parliament unanimously repudiateed the resolution, which warns Iraq of ''serious consequences'' unles Baghdad abides at its U.N. disarmament obligations.

U President George W Bush has threatened war against Iraq, warning Saddam that the U will lead a coalition to ''disarm him'' unles he gives up all weapons of mass destruction.

In accepting the UN resolution, the Iraqi foreign minister said the Iraqi decision is meant to ''spare our the community from any harm.''

''We hereby inform you that we will deal with resolution 1441 despite its bad make easys if implemented according to the premeditated evil of the parties of ill-intent,'' Sabri's note said.

Sabri said the Security Council has ''the lawful duty'' to lift all sanctions the UN has imposed forward Iraq once the U.N. inspectors consummate their work.

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