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The table, contained in a covering letter from Baghdad's Foreign Minister Naji Sabri, lists all of Iraq's banned weapons programs, but does not indicate if any arms were procured after U.N. sanctions were imposed in August 1990.

In the past, sensitive information, has not been disclosed by U.N. weapons inspection units. Companies around the world, which cooperated with the United Nations did so on condition they not be identified publicly, although the United States and others are presumed to have access to such information.

But this time all 15 Security Council members are to get the report, which means it could leak to the press quickly.

Unknown is whether the United States and other council members will try to repress this part of Iraq's 12,000-page declaration, delivered to the United Nations on Sunday.

Washington now has the sole copy of the report, which it is expected to distribute to Russia, Britain, France and China, the other permanent council members.

The U.N. Security Council decided on Friday to purge the document of information that could lead to weapons proliferation, such as how to make a bomb. But no decision has been made on information about the suppliers.

President Saddam Hussein's government met a Dec. 8 deadline called for last month in a crucial Security Council resolution that sets the ground rules for new tough weapons inspections and give Iraq one more chance to disarm or face "serious consequences."