United Nations ? Iraq today will hand over more than 10,000 pages detailing its chemical, biological and nuclear programs, including sensitive material that will not be shared with the United States or other governments, chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix said.

The United States and other Security Council members decided Friday that the material – which could include recipes for chemical and biological weapons – should be kept secret even from the council itself lest it fall into the wrong hands.

As a result, inspectors will take at least a week to weed out the sensitive details as well as translate the Arabic sections before giving the declaration to the council, U.N. officials said. The declaration is expected to be delivered today to inspectors in Baghdad and then sent to U.N. headquarters in New York on Sunday, the deadline for its arrival.

The declaration is a crucial requirement that Iraq must meet and Security Council members and weapons experts will be combing it to assess whether Baghdad is telling the truth. Omissions or false statements, coupled with any Iraqi failure to cooperate with weapons inspectors, could trigger war.

Iraqi Ambassador Mohammed Al-Douri said the report would reflect Iraq’s long-standing claims that it is free of weapons of mass destruction although it will also contain some “new elements,” which he did not disclose.

Bush administration officials say they are sure Iraq has such weapons and on Thursday the White House said “solid evidence” would be turned over to U.N. inspectors.

Blix called on Washington to share that evidence Friday.

“We would like to have as much information from any member state as evidence that (Iraq) may have weapons of mass destruction,” he said.

On Friday, the White House said it wanted Blix’s group to aggressively court Iraqi scientists with promises of safety and asylum in exchange for evidence against Saddam Hussein’s weapons programs.

“We take the issue very seriously and attach great importance to it. We hope the international community would also attach the same importance to the issue,” White House press secretary Ari Fleischer told reporters.

But Blix, the 74-year-old Swede who heads the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission, was unmoved.

“We are not going to abduct anybody, and we’re not serving as a defection agency,” he said.

Under the latest Security Council resolution, Iraq has until Sunday to submit an “accurate, full, and complete declaration” of its chemical, biological and nuclear programs. Iraqi officials last month complained about the scope of this demand, pointing out it would even cover petrochemical industry production of plastic sandals.