Polish president grateful to Armenia for Iraqi multinational troops offer

PAP news agency
6 Sep 04

Warsaw, 6 September: After meeting Armenian President Robert Kocharian,
who is in Warsaw on an official visit, [Polish] President Aleksander
Kwasniewski has said that Poland is grateful for his declaration to
send Armenian troops to the multinational division which is under
the Polish command in Iraq.

“We appreciate this fact; we know that these are very difficult,
yet inevitable, decisions to make at the time when joint effort and
solidarity are needed to combat terrorism,” the president said at a
press conference.

[Passage omitted].

According to Kwasniewski, Polish-Armenian relations are “in a great
shape”. He added that a “basis for a treaty” had been established
that would enable a closer cooperation, especially an economic one.

Today, the agreements that were signed in the presence of the two
presidents included ones about cooperation in defence and combating
organized crime.

According to the president of Armenia, Poland’s EU entry “is giving
a new dimension to our cooperation”. Armenia wants to take advantage
of Poland’s experiences in the economic transformation and adoption
of laws to EU norms.

[Passage omitted].