Iraq on Wednesday, February 28, lifted a boycott of Polish goods imposed last week, saying Warsaw had "rectified" its stand on the deadly US and British air strikes earlier this month.
"Iraq has annulled the boycott measures against imports from Poland after the Warsaw government rectified its attitude" towards the February raids, Commerce Minister Mohammad Mahdi Al-Saleh announced, quoted by the official news agency INA.
Iraq severed trade links with Poland and Canada on February 20 for supporting the strikes around Baghdad, which it said killed three civilians and wounded 30.
Polish Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek's top foreign policy advisor resigned last week after he expressed "understanding" for the attacks. Warsaw insisted it had not taken an official stand.
On Friday, Poland's ambassador to Baghdad said his country supported a lifting of the embargo imposed on Iraq for its 1990 invasion of Kuwait. — (AFP, Baghdad)
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