The United States has asked Poland's defence and foreign ministers to discuss the future of its military mission in Iraq, new Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz said on Monday, according to Reuters. The outgoing leftist government decided to pull out the roughly 1,700 troops next year, though President-elect Lech Kaczynski said last week Poland might agree to continue the deployment. "The decision on the army's presence in Iraq has been taken by the previous government -- our contingent is present until February 2006," Marcinkiewicz told a news conference on the day his minority cabinet was sworn in. "Since that time nothing has changed, though I have been informed that the United States has invited the ministers of defence and foreign affairs to Washington."
