The Polish army will start to withdraw from the mission in Afghanistan in about two years, Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said at a press conference in Bydgoszcz on Thursday. "Now we want to strengthen them ... offer additional training to soldiers, Afghan police so that they could start to take over the responsibility for their own country in some two years' time," said Sikorski.
The minister stressed that the Afghanistan-based Polish troops manage to "implement their strategy slowly, but very consistently."
He added that Poland is withdrawing from foreign missions which "have ceased to be of primary importance to our reason of state."
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