Poland's leaders aim to pull Iraq troops
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Poland should withdraw its troops from Iraq by the end of next year, Polish leaders said Monday, the first time the key U.S. ally has indicated a timeframe for pulling its soldiers out of the wartorn nation.
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Sixty percent of Poles would support an immediate withdrawal of the country's soldiers from Iraq, while more than 70 percent believe their government made a mistake in sending troops there, according to a survey released Wednesday.
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Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka is to pay a Christmas visit to Polish troops stationed in Afghanistan ( news - web sites ) and Iraq ( news - web sites ) this week, unofficial sources said.
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Poland Defence Minister Jerzy Szmajdzinski flew to Iraq Sunday to rally his country's troops after three Polish soldiers were killed in recent fighting.
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Poland's president said Monday he wants his country to be an active broker of world peace and his government could send hundreds more troops than it has already pledged to a U.N. force in Lebanon.
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Ukraine's outgoing President Leonid Kuchma ordered officials to draw up plans to withdraw the country's contingent of troops from Iraq in the first half of 2005.
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President Leonid Kuchma on Monday ordered the foreign and defense ministries to develop a plan for withdrawing Ukraine's troops from Iraq within months, his office said.
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Alexander Kwasniewski, the Polish president, today said the country had set no date for withdrawing its troops from Iraq despite comments from the defence minister that they should leave by the end of 2005.
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Polish PM Jaroslaw Kaczynski discusses  troops in Iraq and controversial missile base proposals during a US trip.
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Poland's president said Monday that Warsaw will pull its remaining 900 soldiers out of Iraq by the end of 2007, but no specific date has been set.Comment
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Poland&#39;s Defence Minister, Jerzy Szmajdzinski, has said he believes Polish troops should withdraw from Iraq at the end of next year.
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Visiting Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski said here Monday that his country may withdraw all itstroops from Iraq by the end of next year.
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WARSAW, Poland Â Poles began voting Sunday in elections pitting the prime minister's nationalists against a pro-business party that wants to bring the country's 900 troops home from Iraq and get more in return for hosting a U.S. missile defense base.
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BERLIN In a surprise announcement, Poland said Monday that it would withdraw its troops from Iraq by the end of 2005, leaving the US-led multinational forces the task of finding replacements to fill a crucial security role in south-central Iraq.
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Poland will withdraw its troops from Iraq by the end of 2005 according to Poland&#39;s Defense Minister Jerzy Szmajdzinski, AFP announced.
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KIEV -- President Leonid Kuchma yesterday ordered the foreign and defense ministries to develop a plan for withdrawing Ukraine's troops from Iraq within six months, a day after eight of its soldiers were killed in an explosion at an ammunition dump.
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In a major disappointment for Washington, Poland says that it aims to withdraw all of its 2,500 troops from Iraq next year. The US administration sees Warsaw as one of its staunchest allies in Iraq.