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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- U.N. weapons inspectors left the headquarters of Iraq's ruling Baath Party on Wednesday without searching it after Iraqi officials asked for a list of materials sought by the inspection team.

The Iraqi News Agency said a team of the inspectors arrived "in a provocative way" at 9 a.m. and asked to search the building housing the offices of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's party. According to INA, a Baath Party official "asked the team to write a list of the things and materials they were looking for in the party building, but the inspectors refused and left."

The inspectors were part of the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq, which oversees the dismantling of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. UNSCOM officials in Baghdad said any comment on the situation would come from the agency's headquarters in New York.

Hussam Mohammad Amin, Iraq's main liaison to UNSCOM, said inspectors "clearly aim to create crises and problems."

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UNSCOM's surprise inspections of suspected Iraqi weapons sites resumed Tuesday. Iraq had halted its cooperation with UNSCOM in late October but, amid threats of military action, agreed in November to let inspectors return to work.

Nearly 200 U.N. arms inspectors searched for banned weapons in Iraq on Wednesday as Iraqi newspapers renewed complaints that the inspections were not leading to a lifting of U.N. sanctions.

UNSCOM spokeswoman Caroline Cross said all the U.N. arms experts in the country were working Wednesday.

On Tuesday, nine arms monitoring groups, two biological warfare teams and a missile unit conducted 32 searches, some using helicopters, the Iraqi News Agency said.

The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.