United Nations: Iraq plans to hand over its declaration containing full account of its nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and long range missiles along with facilities, locations and materials used in their production in Baghdad on December 7 evening at 22.30 (IST).

The copies of the declaration would be immediately flown to New York and Vienna, where they would be handed over to chief weapons inspector Hans Blix, Secretary- General Kofi Annan and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for analysis.

According to latest information, the entire 10,000 pages report is on paper and part of it in English and part in Arabic. Iraq had a deadline till December 8 to present the declaration, but it is doing so a day earlier.

The indication given by Iraqi diplomats was that it would give accounting of all materials that Iraq had and assert it does not possess any weapons of mass destruction at present and has no programme to produce them in future.

The inspectors would edit out any sensitive material, including the method for making weapons of mass destruction if it has any, before handing it over to the members of the Security Council.

Chief weapons inspector Hans Blix will meet Council members early next week, possibly on December 10, and only after then would it be known how long it would take for the report to be processed by the inspectors.

PTI