§ Mr. CohenTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence what has been the cost to his Department of aid to the Russian Federation to assist the safe transport and storage of nuclear weapons for each of the last five financial years; and from which subheads of which votes these funds were taken. [18278]
§ Mr. SoamesUK assistance to the Russian Federation in the context of safe transport and storage of nuclear weapons has comprised two related projects: the supply of heavy duty trucks and the supply of supercontainers. The total costs by year for each of the last five years for these two projects are as follows:
§ Mr. SoamesNo training assistance has been provided by British military personnel in Rwanda over the past five years. A member of the Royal Army Medical Corps has, however, provided assistance in 1995 to the independent international commission of inquiry set up at the request of the Government of Rwanda to investigate events surrounding deaths of an unknown number of persons at the Kibeho refugee camp. In addition, a member of the RAF legal services led a seminar sponsored by the UN centre for human rights in February on training the Rwandan army in the human rights aspects of military activity.