2020-01-02 10:50 update: 2020-01-02, 20:16
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"Poland strongly condemns the attack and storming of the US Embassy in Baghdad which started on December 31, 2019," the Polish Foreign Ministry wrote in a statement published on Thursday.
"We are calling on the Iraqi government to hold the perpetrators as well as those standing behind them accountable for their actions," the ministry wrote.
The statement underlined that according to the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations, the host country is obliged to guarantee the protection of diplomatic missions and their premises.
Protests in front of the US Embassy in Baghdad started after the publishing on Sunday of a report by the Pentagon, which announced that US forces carried out air strikes against the Tehran-backed Kataib Hezbollah group in Iraq and Syria. The US believes that Kataib Hezbollah is responsible for last Friday's missile attack on a military base near Kirkuk in northern Iraq, which killed one civilian employee and injured six. At least 25 people were killed and 55 were wounded in the US air strikes.
In response to the recent events, the US decided to immediately deploy in Iraq 750 troops from the US Army's 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. (PAP)
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