BAGDHAD, January 28 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) – The reports submitted to the U.N. Security Council Monday, January 27, by Hans Blix and Mohamed El-Baradei on inspection in Iraq were unbalanced in reporting the facts, a top aide of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein charged Tuesday, January 28.

Speaking at a press conference, General Amr Rashid stressed that the reports minimized positive aspects related to Iraq’s full cooperation with the U.N. inspectors and maximized few negative points.

He asserted that Iraq has unconditionally allowed the return of U.N. inspectors to the country, gave them unfettered access to all sites and places and even halted the production process in some sites to confirm full cooperation.

This, he said, was briefly mentioned in the reports whereas few negative aspects were so exaggerated that the reports gave the impression Iraq was not cooperating, Rashid charged.

He slammed the reports for not commenting on American and British allegations that Iraq possess weapons of mass destruction which, he said, the inspectors proved to be ungrounded.

“We had expected the inspectors to tell the world that these claims were sheer lies and were only serving political goals,” he said.

The Iraqi officials called on the U.N. Security Council to intervene to prevent Washington and London from meddling in the inspection process and laying pressures on the U.N. inspectors.

Commenting on the fuss about Iraq’s refusal to allow U.N. experts to use U-2 planes, the Iraqi official underlined that Baghdad did not refuse to allow the U.N. to use these planes.

“Blix asked Iraq to guarantee the safety of the U.N. planes while flying in the Iraqi airspace.

“We would not do that simply because hostile warplane violates Iraqi airspace on a daily bases,” he stressed.

In order to guarantee the safety of the U.N. planes we would have had to stop all our anti-aircraft ground defenses and give Anglo-American war planes ample ability to strike our sites, said the Iraqi officials.

“This would have weakened our military capabilities to defend our territorial integrity and this we simply can not do,” Rashid averred.

Taking up the claim that Baghdad was blocking interviews with Iraqi scientists, the official asserted that Iraq had agreed with Blix and El-Baradei on encouraging scientists to meet with U.N. experts and most of them have agreed to do that.

But, if some scientists refuse to be interviewed that is their own decision and we can not force them to meet U.N. experts.

Rashid defied the U.S. to hand over to U.N. inspectors any evidence that Iraq was developing chemical weapons.

“Any VX nerve agent and anthrax Iraq had once produced had degraded,” he averred.

"If the United States has evidence, give it to UNMOVIC," Rashid said, asserting that this would "prove the false allegations and vindications by the U.S. administration.

The Iraqi official said Iraq had only had "experimental production" of VX nerve agent.

"We were unable to arrive at a reasonable purity of VX. That means VX material will deteriorate in a short time, possible two to three years.

"It is unnecessary to even know that quantity" because it has all degraded, Rashid said.

On anthrax, Rashid said "we proved unable to have it in powder form, only liquid ... which has a shelf life of only a few years."

"We know what we have and what we don't have," said Rashid, adding that it was in Iraq's interests to settle any pending issues on the weapons of mass destruction Washington alleges it has.

El-Baradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said Tuesday the U.N. arms report was balanced, and warned Iraq time was running out to prove it had no banned weapons.

"I asked for extra months" to continue inspections in Iraq, he told Qatar's Al-Jazeera satellite television station, adding that he was not sure whether the arms teams would receive an extension.