Government ready to give US active support in case of war with Iraq

During yesterday's meeting of the Sejm Commission of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Minister Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz announced support for potential military action undertaken by the United States and Great Britain against Saddam Hussain, even if such actions do not receive UN backing. "This support would not only be political, but that which is within our moderate possibilities," he said. Military action has been rejected by the UN Security Council and its permanent members of France, Russia, Germany and France. "Nothing today can justify a military attack," said the head of the French Foreign Ministry, Dominique de Villepin. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A1) A.K.