Spokesman of the Polish Foreign Ministry Robert Szaniawski confirmed on Tuesday the Polish Embassy in Iraq was moved to a building in "Green zone" for temporary work in Baghdad out of safety consideration,.
Szaniawski told Xinhua that majority of staffs of the Polish Embassy were evacuated after diplomatic cars were attacked and the ambassador was wounded in the raid on last Wednesday. Only a few diplomats, including the charge d'affaires, were still in the original embassy.
After the bomb blasts near the embassy on Monday, all of the staffs were evacuated.
Szaniawski said the new embassy building approved by the Iraqi government was under decoration. The Polish Embassy would be moved officially to the new place in the "Green zone" in about two month, Szaniawski added.
Earlier on Tuesday, Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski talked about the evacuation of embassy staffs. Without indicating the detailed address, he only said that the embassy "now can't normally work beyond the 'Green zone'."
On the withdrawal of troops from Iraq, Kaczynski said that the final decision on the matter depended on Poland's allies and that Poland would probably had to wait until the result of presidential elections in the United States.
Since the outbreak of the Iraq war, the number of Polish troops in the country once reached 2,500 and currently is 900. More than twenty Polish servicemen have been killed in Iraq so far.
Source: Xinhua
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