WARSAW, Poland, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski said Wednesday victory for George W. Bush in the U.S. presidential elections was good news for Poland.
Kwasniewski, a staunch ally of the Bush administration, said the two countries would continue to cooperate in the war on terror but called on Bush to improve his commitment to Poland in economic matters.
Poland was one of only a handful of countries in the western world in which opinion polls showed more people favoring Bush over Democrat rival John Kerry. Kerry conceded the election earlier Wednesday.
Poland has 2,400 troops in Iraq, the largest from the eight former communist countries to join the European Union on May 1 this year.
Poland's support for the Bush administration has sometimes incurred the wrath of traditional power houses in the European Union such as France and Germany.
