§ Mr. MacShaneTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list the Albanian military personnel who have visited the United Kingdom since 1992. [16405]
§ Mr. SoamesThe Albanian Minister of Defence, Mr. Safet Zhulali, visited the United Kingdom in 1995, accompanied by three military officers. Eleven representatives of the Albanian Ministry of Defence have been identified as having attended seminars or training courses in the United Kingdom under MOD auspices since 1992. It is not currently our practice to make public the names of such visitors, though as announced on 28 January by my hon. Friend the Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs,Official Report, columns 140–41, we are reviewing this.