Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka was not expected to specify a date for the full withdrawal of 2,500 Polish troops from Iraq during his keynote policy address Friday keynote. Poland's President Aleksander Kwasniewski said that insisting on a deadline for a pullout would be "irresponsible" and could provoke terrorist activity. "No date can be given because this would encourage all the terrorists of the world. Should everyone pull out wholesale from Iraq at the end of 2005 it would be a free-for-all," he told Polish Radio. Belka would outline the implementation of a certain "idea" or "project" by the Polish military in Iraq on Friday, Kwasniewski revealed. Belka was due to make a keynote policy address ahead of a Friday vote of confidence in his administration. "We want to withdraw from Iraq," Kwasniewski said. "Nobody in the world has said yet, and nobody has the right to say that Poland wants to be in Iraq forever, or that it wants to be an occupying force - this is not our goal." "But how to best fulfill our stabilization mission is a question which is perhaps worth the Nobel prize," Kwasniewski said. The president reiterated Poland's declared intention to significantly reduce its contingent of 2,500 in Iraq after the country's planned January 2005 general election. "We will see how Iraq's new authorities will define their expectations towards international forces," Kwasniewski said. --more 1409 Local Time 1109 GMT
