- Title: IRAQ: SPAIN PARTIALLY WITHDRAWS ITS EMBASSY STAFF FROM BAGHDAD
- Date: 4th November 2003
- Summary: (U4) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (NOVEMBER 4, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. WIDE OF STREET WHERE SPANISH EMBASSY IS BASED 0.05 2. SECURITY AT CHECKPOINT 0.11 3. CU NAME PLATE, MV FRONT ENTRANCE TO EMBASSY (2 SHOTS) 0.21 4. PAN: CAR LEAVING 0.44 5. SPANISH EMBASSY 0.50 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 19th November 2003 12:00
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- Location: BAGHDAD, IRAQ
- Country: Iraq
- Reuters ID: LVA7M7I9PR7O4NE5UYPWQ99K89CF
- Story Text: Spain pulls staff out of Baghdad.
Spain, one of Washington's closest allies in Iraq,
is pulling out part of its embassy staff from Baghdad, a
foreign ministry spokesman said on Tuesday.
He said administrative and maintenance staff were being
pulled out.
"There has been a partial withdrawal," the spokesman
said. "Strictly diplomatic staff, of which there are two,
will remain." The charge d'affaires, Spain's most senior
diplomat in the country, would remain, he said.
U.S. troops face daily attacks in Baghdad and areas to
the north and west of the city. The resistance has also
forced most foreign aid workers to leave.
Spain supported the United States politically during
the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and later sent troops to help
keep the peace in the country.
Spanish media criticism of the war intensified after
Jose Antonio Bernal, a sergeant working for Spain's
National Intelligence Centre in Iraq, was shot dead.
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