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recent 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 in succession Friday, giving Iraq one last chance to dismantle its weapons of mass destruction or face ''serious consequences'' leaving explain 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 unfold nuclear, chemical, biological or ballistic weapons, and explains the way for U.N. weapons inspectors to revert to Iraq, possibly within 10 days, after a four-year hiatus.

Iraq has seven days to accept the UN demands.

In dialect before the Security Council after the devoted U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan said the resolution gives a ''powerful signal'' to Iraq to abide on its U.N. obligations.

In a tongue at the White House following the UN ballot U.S. President George W Bush issued a direct warning to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, saying he must completely comply with the U.N. resolution or face ''severest consequences'' the collection of laws word for war.

''His cooperation must be active 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 adventure of further Iraqi violations, this resolution does not constraint any member state from acting to defense itself against the threat pos by way of Iraq,'' Negroponte said in a articulate utterance at the Security Council.

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

The resolution, the ensue 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 rivals of U.S. unilateral moves forward Iraq, the resolution gives the Security Council a larger part over the process of disarmament in Iraq.

below the terms of the resolution, the Security Council would come together 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 pair months after it starts inspection work in Iraq.

The resolution came after nearly couple months of haggling among the world's major powers after Bush, in a dialect to the U.N. on family 12, accused Iraq of violating UN disarmament obligations and smoothed 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 onward 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 abroad the U.N. weapons inspectors in 1998

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