Kazakhstan says employee of military attache arrested in Poland

(Reuters) -Kazakhstan's Defence Ministry said on Wednesday that an employee of a Kazakh defence attache had been arrested by Polish authorities, after Warsaw said it had arrested a national of an unnamed country for espionage.

Kazakhstan, which has close economic and political links to Russia but which maintains good relations with Western countries too, said: "interaction with the foreign party is underway to resolve this situation".

Poland said on August 1 that it had arrested an individual it accused of being a spy and of conducting intelligence activities that threatened the security of Poland and NATO. A Warsaw court placed the man in pre-trial detention for three months.

Poland stated that the man was a citizen of an Asian country established after the collapse of the Soviet Union and that he was a military intelligence officer operating under diplomatic cover in a European country.

(Reporting by Felix Light, additional reporting by Anna Koper; Editing by Toby Chopra)