BY THE TIME ARMENIANS ARRIVE, THERE WILL BE NO POLE IN IRAQ

Azg/arm
16 Dec 04

Poland is going to reduce the number of its military contingent in
Iraq from 2500 to 1700, Reuters news agency quoted Jerzy Szmajdzinski,
Polish minister of defense, as saying. Polish authorities declared
earlier that they would call few squads back only after the elections.

The group of Armenian doctors, deminers and drivers, which is supposed
to leave for Iraq, was to billet on the Polish-controlled territory
120-140 km farther from Baghdad together with servicemen from other 19
states. Poland declared earlier that it will withdraw the whole
contingent before 2005.