WARSAW (AFP) ??” Poland will hand through another part of the belt it administers in Iraq in a less degree than a planned reduction of its forces nearest year.

WARSAW (AFP) ??” Poland will hand through another part of the belt it administers in Iraq in a less degree than a planned reduction of its forces nearest year, Defence Minister Jerzy Szmajdzinski said.

The solution US ally, which heads a multinational force of 6500 administering a swathe of southerly central Iraq to which it sent more than 2500 of its acknowledge troops, will hand over command of the province of Karbala, he said.

"We will leave the province of Karbala. The contingent will remain expanded in the provinces of Babil, Wasit and Al-Qadisiyah," the fortification minister said in an interview with the daily Trybuna.

He did not specify which forces would assume responsibility in Poland's place.

Last month Polish companys in Iraq already handed athwart some of the zone they mastery to US forces, including the province of Najaf, the pageant of fierce fighting with Shiite militiamen.

Szmajdzinski confirmed that