Saadun Hammadi, the speaker of the Iraqi parliament, urged Butler's UN Special Commission (UNSCOM) to quickly wrap up its activities and insisted that Baghdad had ``fulfilled all its requirements''.

Butler, who arrived here on Thursday for a five day visit, is heading an 18-member delegation. He met a team of Iraqi officials headed by deputy prime minister Tareq Aziz, yesterday.

Technical experts from the two sides also talked for more than three hours yesterday, UN officials here said.

But details of their discussions were not immediately available.

Butler sought to reassure Iraq that his job could be finished within months, clearing the way for an end to UN sanctions, if Baghdad accepted his ``roadmap'' for disarmament.

``We have not come to impose some list on Iraq, a take-it-or-leave-it thing,'' Butler said,while praising Iraq's ``outstanding'' cooperation since it signed a February 23 accord with UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.

Butler said the ``roadmap'' he had brought to discuss with Iraqi officials was a ``very clear definitive list of the jobs that need to be done to bring into existence a final accord of weapons of mass destruction''.But Iraq has dismissed the ``roadmap'' as a political ploy aimed at prolonging the crippling UN sanctions in force since Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait.

``The coming and going of inspectors and the pretexts put forward by UNSCOM (to maintain sanctions) cannot continue,'' Hammadi told Iraqi television.``The Iraqi people, the Arab masses, Muslims and free men around the world will fight with all their strength against the hostile polices (of UNSCOM),'' Hammadi added.

The Iraqi parliament adopted a resolution in October threatening to cut off all cooperation with UNSCOM. Iraqi leaders warned in April that maintaining UN sanctions would have ``serious consequences''.