Polish Defense Minister Suggests Late-2005 Troop Withdrawal from ...
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Poland&#39;s defense minister has surprised his colleagues in the country&#39;s pro-US government by suggesting that Warsaw should withdraw its nearly 2,500 troops from Iraq by the end of next year.
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Poland's defense minister said in comments broadcast Thursday that his nation will send at least 900 troops to eastern Afghanistan next year. NATO said the offer did not ease the immediate need for 2,500 additional soldiers in the violence-wracked south.
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Warsaw, Poland - Poland envisions a withdrawal of its troops from Iraq by the end of next year, Polish leaders said Monday. It was the first time the key US ally has indicated a timeframe for pulling its soldiers out of the war-torn nation.
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Poland would like to host a major  NATO military installation on its soil as part of a deeper  security relationship with the United States, Polish Foreign  Minister Radoslaw Sikorski told Reuters on Thursday.
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Poland would like to host a major NATO military installation on its soil as part of a deeper security relationship with the United States, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski told Reuters on Thursday.
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Poland said that it aims to withdraw all of its 2,500 troops from Iraq during the course of next year, a major disappointment for Washington which sees Warsaw as one of its staunchest allies in Iraq.
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A Polish-led multinational division in charge of security in south-central Iraq faces disintegration if more countries pull their troops out, Polish officials said on Wednesday.
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Poland's Prime Minister Marek Belka confirmed that the 2,500 Polish troops in Iraq would be progressively withdrawn starting from January next year and would not stay &quot;an hour longer than needed.&quot;
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All the Ukrainian contingent will be withdrawn from Iraq before the end of 2005, Ukrainian Defence Minister Alexander Kuzmuk stated in the course of his working visit to the Nikolayev garrison.
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The United States downplayed Polish comments suggesting its troops in Iraq ( news - web sites ) would be withdrawn next year, saying Warsaw's commitment to the US-led coalition was not calendar driven.
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Lithuania is "seriously considering" withdrawing its 53 troops from Iraq, a government spokeswoman said Wednesday.
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Poland's new government formally asked the president Tuesday to approve the country's withdrawal from Iraq by Oct. 31, 2008.
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Defence Secretary Robert Gates hints that the US could withdraw thousands of troops from Iraq during 2008.
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Poland will pull its troops out of Iraq by the end of 2005, when UN resolution 1546 endorsing the timetable for political transition in Iraq expires, Defense Minister Jerzy Szmajdzinski says.
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"The worst situation would be for Poland to say yes, and then have to pay the political price, and afterwards the shield would not be built because of a change of government in the US"  Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski in an interview published Saturday said his country had still not given its approval for the planned US missile defence system in Poland. via Earth Times
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Ukraine is to gradually withdraw its 1 600-strong military contingent from Iraq and gradually replace it with instructors and a civilian presence, Foreign Minister Borys Tarasyuk said on Tuesday.
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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.