Trade between Iraq and Poland reportedly broken due to bombing support

According to the INA press agency, Iraq has decided to break trade relations with Poland and Canada for supporting the American and British bombing last Friday in the Baghdad area. The bombing resulted in three deaths and 30 casualties. The Polish government stresses that it has made no statements about the invasion, and that it has received no official announcement from the Iraqi government. For Iraq, the decision was made by its Minister of Trade, Mohamed Mehdi Saleh. "It means that the import of goods originating from Poland and Canada will be suspended, including the cereals purchased in Canada by intermediaries," he explained in the INA report. The annual trade turnover between Poland and Iraq totaled approximately $250 million before 1990. After Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and the announcement by the UN Security Council of the economic embargo, the turnover has been increasingly lower, down to $557,000 in 1998 and $292,000 in 1999. (Rzeczpospolita, p.A5) M. S.-C.