In a letter that accompanies the nearly 12,000-page document, Foreign Minister Naji Sabri said the dossier's publication "entails risk" of releasing information that violates nonproliferation standards.
Sabri called the report "currently accurate, full and complete" but told the U.N. Security Council it contains information that could aid countries seeking to develop nuclear, chemical or biological weapons.
The nine-page preface to the report being circulated among council members Monday refers to a terminated "radiation bomb project" -- possibly a so-called "dirty bomb."
The contents pages also include references to procurement of petrochemicals for Iraq's nuclear weapons program, and to "foreign technical assistance" and "relations with companies, representatives and individuals" under its chemical weapons declaration.
The U.S. copy was taken to a secure location in Washington, where officials were making copies for the four other permanent members, a State Department source told CNN.
U.N. officials said it could take days to analyze the declaration because of its complexity and length, and the need to translate parts of it from Arabic.
A senior official in the Bush administration told CNN the U.S. intelligence community would direct the United States' analysis of the report.
The Security Council's five permanent members -- the United States, Russia, France, China and Great Britain -- were given unedited copies of the report in a switch from a council announcement last week that inspectors would screen parts relating to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction before passing it on.
Diplomatic sources said Security Council members, including the United States, had been concerned that some of the information might serve as a "training manual" for stockpiling and hiding weapons, and did not want it to fall into the wrong hands. The five permanent members are already declared nuclear powers.
The decision to hand out unedited copies early upset several nonpermanent members of the 15-member Security Council, including the Syrians, because it overrode what the body had decided on Friday. (Full story)
It was not clear when the 10 nonpermanent council members would see abridged portions of the report.
The International Atomic Energy Agency expects to be able to provide a preliminary analysis of the nuclear part of the document to the Security Council within 10 days, an agency statement said, with a fuller assessment to be provided when it reports to the council at the end of January.