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strange YORK, Nov. 8 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATING WITH BUSH WARNING OF 'SEVEREST CONSEQUENCES' 5TH-6TH PARAS)

The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a U.S.-drafted resolution upon Friday, giving Iraq one last chance to dismantle its weapons of mass destruction or face ''serious consequences'' leaving exhibit the possibility of a U military attack.

The resolution, which declared Iraq in ''material breach'' of its UN disarmament obligations, gives Iraq 30 days to declare all programs to disentangle nuclear, chemical, biological or ballistic weapons, and lay opens the way for U.N. weapons inspectors to reply to Iraq, possibly within 10 weeks, after a four-year hiatus.

Iraq has seven days to accept the UN demands.

In words before the Security Council after the voice U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan said the resolution gives a ''powerful signal'' to Iraq to abide by means of its U.N. obligations.

In a dialect at the White House following the UN promised U.S. President George W Bush issued a direct warning to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, saying he must abundantly comply with the U.N. resolution or face ''severest consequences'' the digest word for war.

''His cooperation must be quick and unconditional, or he will face the severest consequences'' he said.

U Ambassador to the United Nations John Negroponte also gave a clear warning to Iraq that the U will act whether or not the UN authorizes the use of force.

''If the Security Council fails to act decisively in the affair of further Iraqi violations, this resolution does not constraint any member state from acting to defense itself against the threat pos through Iraq,'' Negroponte said in a tongue at the Security Council.

''One way or the other, Mr President, Iraq will be disarmed,'' Negroponte said.

The resolution, the outcome of a compromise the United States and Britain have struck with France and other veto-wielding members of the Security Council, gives Iraq ''a final opportunity'' to comply its UN disarmament or face ''face serious consequences'' if it balks.

The resolution gives inspectors the right to ''immediate, unimpeded, unconditional and unrestricted access'' to all locations in Iraq, including its extensive presidential sites.

A previous agreement between Iraq and the United Nations required inspectors to provide notice before inspections at Iraq's presidential palaces.

In a concession to foes of U.S. unilateral moves in succession Iraq, the resolution gives the Security Council a larger character over the process of disarmament in Iraq.

below the terms of the resolution, the Security Council would collect immediately to consider the situation if Iraq makes false statements to weapons inspectors or interfere with their work.

The UN Monitoring, Verification, and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) is required to submit a report to the Security Council sum of two units months after it starts inspection work in Iraq.

The resolution came after nearly sum of two units months of haggling among the world's major powers after Bush, in a language to the U.N. on tribe 12, accused Iraq of violating UN disarmament obligations and expressed the world body to force Iraq to disarm or face a possible military attack.

The U demanded a tough-worded UN resolution that would trigger a US-l military strike if Iraq does not disarm upon its own, while France called for a two-stage proces giving the Security Council -- and France and other veto-wielding powers -- a chance to weigh military action failing progres in weapons inspection.

Iraq kicked gone out the U.N. weapons inspectors in 1998

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