Poland to withdraw troops from Iraq next year

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WARSAW, Nov 25 (Reuters) - Poland will pull its troops out of Iraq
in 2006 but it may move the deadline for withdrawal from January to
mid-year, Polish Defence Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said on Friday.
Sikorski said the security situation in Iraq's south-central
province overseen by Polish soldiers had improved sufficiently to hand over
to Iraqi forces.
"We will certainly withdraw our troops next year," he told
reporters.
Poland contributed an initial force of 2,500 to the U.S.-led
occupation of Iraq and the leftist government unseated in elections in
September had planned to withdraw the remaining 1,400 troops by the end of
January.
Sikorski said his right-wing government would decide by mid-December
whether to keep the deadline or have some 900 troops stay another six
months.
 
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