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Hungary to withdraw troops from Iraq: report

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Vienna, Nov 3, Kyodo/OANA/IRNA -- Hungary will withdraw its 300 
noncombat troops from Iraq by March 31, Prime Minister Ferenc 
Gyurcsany said Wednesday, according to the Associated Press. 
"We are obliged to stay there until the (Iraqi) elections. To stay
longer is an impossibility," the country`s new prime minister was 
quoted as saying at a ceremony to mark the end of mandatory military 
service in Hungary. 
Hungary sent the troops to Iraq as part of the US-led coalition 
but the government has been under mounting pressure from citizens and 
opposition parties who oppose the soldiers` presence, an AP dispatch 
from Budapest said. 
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