Baghdad, Iraq ? Iraq will meet a Dec. 8 deadline for declaring whether it still has any weapons of mass destruction, a senior adviser to President Saddam Hussein said Tuesday.

Following a meeting with U.N. weapons inspectors, Amir al-Saadi told reporters that Baghdad had repeated assurances that it would cooperate fully with the inspection team, which arrived Monday under terms of a U.N. resolution mandating unrestricted access to all Iraqi sites.

“Within 30 days, as the resolution says, a report from Iraq will be submitted on all the files of nuclear, chemical, biological and missile files,” al-Saadi said, speaking in English. Asked whether Iraq was prepared to grant the inspectors unfettered access, he replied: “Yes as stipulated in the resolution, and as we have agreed with them.”

Meeting the Dec. 8 deadline is one of the key conditions laid down in the new Security Council resolution, which authorized U.N. inspectors to return to Iraq after a four-year hiatus. President Bush has threatened military action if the Iraqis fail to cooperate fully with the resolution.

Earlier, Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said Iraqi officials gave assurances of cooperation during talks Monday night with chief U.N. inspector Hans Blix and other team members.

U.N. chief weapons inspector Hans Blix, left, meets with Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri at the Foreign Ministry in Baghdad. Senior Iraqi officials promised Tuesday to meet a Dec. 8 deadline for declaring its weapons.

“Iraq is committed to declare all it possesses regarding weapons of mass destruction, if it still has any of them … and will also declare all of its activities in the chemical, biological and nuclear fields, even those of civilian use,” ElBaradei tsaid.

ElBaradei said the Iraqis were cooperating so far with the inspectors, who arrived Monday, and had pledged to continue “implementing Security Council resolutions.”