Polish soldiers will pull out of Iraq in summer says PO

It was also revealed that PO authorities will first check if there are no additional binding agreements with the US, and later this year they plan to begin political negotiations concerning the withdrawal of the troops. However, the current Defense Minister Aleksander Szczygło is not so optimistic about these plans. "An immediate withdrawal of our soldiers from Iraq is not possible. When PO comes to power, it will find out by itself," said Szczygło. Another opponent to the withdrawal of the military contingent is the President Lech Kaczyński, who already once rejected the plan proposed by Radosław Sikorski, Defense Minister at the time, to leave Iraq in the summer of 2007.