§ Mr. Chris Smithasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will seek assurances from the El Salvadorean authorities that their officers to be trained at Camberley have not been directly or indirectly implicated in the extra-judicial killings which have taken place in El Salvador in recent years.
§ Mr. RentonAs I told the hon. Member for Caerphilly (Mr. Davies) on 11 March at columns 54–55 the Salvadorean Government are aware of our concern about human rights. Candidates for training should be both professionally and personally suitable.
§ Mr. Chris Smithasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will say whether further offers of training either to military, paramilitary, or police personnel from El Salvador will be made in the coming months.
§ Mr. Tim RentonAs I said to the hon. Member for Caerphilly (Mr. Davies) on 11 March at columns 54–55, we have offered places for one or two suitably qualified Salvadorean officers to attend staff college courses in Britain. It continues to be the case that no other offer of military assistance has been made and that we are not, at the present time, considering further military assistance to El Salvador.