Norway’s newly elected prime minister has signalled he will order Norwegian troops out of Iraq as soon as he takes office in mid-October.Labour Party leader Jens Stoltenberg told US President George W Bush in a phone call that “the Norwegian officers should not remain in Iraq."
Mr Stoltenberg swept to victory on Monday when the Labour Party coalition with two other left-wing parties defeated the ruling centre-right coalition led by Kjell Magne Bondevik.
Labour Party partner, the Socialist Left, had lobbied hard for a common platform for government and battled the election on the Iraq exit.
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