§ Mr. CohenTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list the countries that United Kingdom military personnel have visited or will visit to train military students during 1994.
§ Mr. Soames[holding answer 1 December 1994]: According to available records, United Kingdom military personnel have visited or will visit the following countries during 1994 to train military students:
- Antigua1
- Bahrain
- Barbados1
- Belize
- Bermuda
- Brunei
- British Virgin Islands
- Columbia
- Dominica1
- Egypt
- Ghana
- Grenada1
- Jordan
- Kenya
204 - Kuwait
- Lesotho
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Mexico
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Oman
- Poland
- Saudia Arabia
- South Africa
- Singapore
- St. Kitts-Nevis1
- St. Lucia1
- St. Vincent1
- Swaziland1
- Trinidad and Tobago1
- United Arab Emirates
- Zimbabwe
Note:
1Trained by a team based in Barbados.In addition, a Royal Marines team has deployed to Latvia in preparation for training the joint Baltic peacekeeping battalion in the new year.
This list covers those countries to which short-term training teams have been, or will be sent in 1994, as well as those countries in which we have resident loan service personnel or longer term British military advisory and training teams. A short-term training team also deployed to Puerto Rico to assist US forces in training the combined Caribbean Community and Common Market contingent—comprising detachments from Jamaica, Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago—and also contingents from Bangladesh and Guatemala to prepare them for operations with the multinational force in Haiti. In addition, forces on exercise overseas often provide limited training to, or train alongside, the armed forces of the host nation. A central record of such training is not, however, maintained.