Poles’ president OKs plan for Iraq troop exit
Poland’s president gave his approval Friday to a government plan that would end the country’s military mission in Iraq by October, his website said.
Poland still has 900 troops in Iraq, and the question of how much longer to keep them there had become a source of friction between President Lech Kaczynski and Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
The new prime minister wanted the troops out by October, but the president wanted the mission to last longer.
In El Salvador, meanwhile, the national legislature in a very late session Thursday gave President Tony Saca the go-ahead to extend troop deployments to Iraq until the end of 2008.
El Salvador, the only Latin American country with troops in Iraq, has been sending contingents of 280 soldiers since 2003.
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