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<p>WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Poland will take an active role in the reconstruction of Iraq, sharing its "experience and knowledge" in building economic and political institutions, Foreign Minister Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz said Tuesday.</p> <p>"In the last several years, with our economic and political transformation, we've got that kind of experience," Cimoszewicz said. "We are ready to take part in stabilization activities. Poland is going to be consistently active in the reconstruction of Iraq."</p>

In boardrooms in France and Germany, businesses play catch up, trying to cash in on Iraqi reconstruction. HANOVER, GERMANY - The two shiny pipe welding tractors that fill most of the space in Eginhard Vietz's production hall here might be German industry's first casualties of the Iraq war. Shipment of the two massive machines, approved under the United Nations oil-for-food program in 2002, was called off four weeks before the first rockets began falling on Baghdad. Now, Mr. Vietz is stuck with almost $600,000 worth of expensive equipment that was the first part of a $5 million order placed by...

WASHINGTON, May 6 (Reuters) - Poland said on Tuesday it would need a U.N. Security Council mandate to take part in a proposed peacekeeping mission in Iraq. "We believe that we need that kind of resolution. I understand that in days ahead there will be some initiatives opening the way to have such a resolution," Foreign Minister Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz said after talks with U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell. Poland has proposed to the United States that its soldiers team up with German and Danish troops to keep the peace in one region of postwar Iraq, Polish officials said on...

<p>BAGHDAD — The United States plans to divide Iraq into three zones, with Poland and Britain controlling two zones, U.S. forces the third, and troops from seven other nations contributing troops for peacekeeping duties.</p> <p>A senior U.S. official traveling with Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld disclosed the plan, and Polish Foreign Minister Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz offered additional details.</p>

TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ SUNDAY, MAY 04, 2003 02:16:54 AM ] WASHINGTON: Indian and Pakistani troops who were poised eyeball-to-eyeball in confrontation only a few months back could soon be standing shoulder-to-shoulder in peacekeeping operations in Iraq if the United States has its way. Washington is asking both nations to contribute forces to a multinational division that will help police Iraq and enable most US troops to return home, according to reports here. The proposal will be discussed further at a "force generation" conference organized by the United Kingdom in London next week followed by another meeting in Warsaw later in...

KASTELLORIZO, Greece (AP) - France and Germany, America's harshest critics of the Iraq war, have reluctantly endorsed a U.S. plan to divide Iraq into three zones and deploy a stabilization force that excludes them. The initiative, unveiled Saturday as the European Union foreign ministers met on a Greek Aegean island, appeared to take EU officials by surprise. Some said they only learned of it from news reports quoting officials travelling with U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who was on a visit to London. German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer said the plan "is not a new situation and is not in...

France, Germany Back U.S. Plan on Iraq By ROBERT WIELAARD .c The Associated Press KASTELLORIZO, Greece (AP) - France and Germany, America's harshest critics of the Iraq war, on Saturday reluctantly endorsed a U.S. plan to divide Iraq into three zones and deploy a stabilization force that excludes them. The initiative, unveiled as the European Union foreign ministers met on a Greek Aegean island, appeared to take EU officials by surprise. Some said they only learned of it from news reports quoting officials traveling with U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, who was on a visit to London. German Foreign...

Saturday May 3, 4:39 PM The United States and its allies are forming a multinational force to "stabilize" post-war Iraq and will seek neither a UN mandate nor active participation of countries that opposed the war, a senior US official said.Iraq will be divided into three sectors to be commanded by the United States, Britain and Poland, which will enlist other countries to provide forces to secure the peace, said the official Friday, speaking on condition of anonmity."The thought is the force would be generated by a coalition of the willing on a bilateral basis," said the official. That would...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States plans to set up an international military force in three regions of Iraq, with Poland and Britain controlling two zones and U.S. forces the third, a senior U.S. administration official said. Six European countries have agreed to provide troops for the international stabilization force, the official said Friday, speaking on condition of anonymity. The United States and Britain also are preparing a Security Council resolution that gives the United Nations a role in humanitarian relief in Iraq but not peacekeeping, the official said. The draft resolution would limit the UN role to helping with...

THE US plans to divide Iraq into five administrative zones, one of which could be managed by Poland, the daily Rzeczpospolita said quoting a NATO source. Under a proposal made by Washington to Warsaw, Polish companies would also take part in the reconstruction of Iraq, the conservative newspaper, one of Poland's two biggest dailies, said. It said the United States was "ready to fully finance the participation of the Polish contingent in the stabilisation force" in Iraq and had asked Warsaw to send between 2000 and 4000 soldiers, while the Polish defence ministry "has in mind a figure of 1500"....