United Nations weapons inspectors have accepted an invitation from Baghdad to return to Iraq, before they give their next report to the Security Council.
Chief Weapons inspector, Hans Blix, and Mohamed El Baradei will travel to Baghdad on Saturday for a two-day visit, but are not expected to meet President Saddam Hussein.
Iraq has repeated its insistence that it has no weapons of mass destruction and no plans to produce them.
Yesterday, US President George W. Bush, and UK Prime Minister, Tony Blair, warned that war was just weeks away unless Iraq complied fully with UN demands to disarm.
A spokeswoman for the UN nuclear watchdog agency, the IAEA, said Mr Blix and Mr El Baradei announced the visit in a letter to the Iraqi authorities.
