Poland, a staunch supporter of the US-led war in Iraq, wants US businesses to give its firms preferential treatment in picking partners to help rebuild the Middle East state, government officials said. Poland’s Chamber of Commerce said total spending to rebuild infrastructure and oil-exporting capability in Iraq could top USD 100 billion, giving Polish companies ample opportunity to gain new business if they are well organised. Poland, a close ally of the USA since the collapse of Communism in 1989, irked some western European countries just a year ahead of its planned European Union accession by backing, then participating in the US-led strike on Iraq. Budimex hopes it will take part in the Iraq reconstruction effort. Iraq was communist-era Poland’s main trading partner in the Middle East in the 1970s and 1980s, when thousands of Polish engineers and workers built factories and roads there. Poland’s Deputy Labour and Economy Minister Jacek Piechota said that so far nearly 400 companies had submitted to his ministry or the National Economic Chamber offers to participate in the reconstruction of Iraq.
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