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Royal Military Academy: Foreigners

Mr. Hague: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what criteria are used to decide which nationalities of foreign citizens may be trained at RMA Sandhurst. [189441]

Mr. Bob Ainsworth: Places at RMA Sandhurst are allocated in accordance with defence policy and wider Government conflict prevention objectives.

Mr. Hague: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many foreign citizens were trained at RMA Sandhurst since 1997; and of what nationalities. [189444]

Mr. Bob Ainsworth: 800 students from 79 countries have trained at RMA Sandhurst since 1997. Their nationalities are set out in the following table:


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Country Total 1977 1988 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008( 1)
Commissioning Course

Afghanistan

8

3

3

2

Albania

1

1

Algeria

2

1

1

Antigua

1

1

Armenia

1

1

Azerbaijan

1

1

Bahrain

45

4

4

4

5

5

4

6

2

5

3

2

1

Bangladesh

7

2

2

1

1

1

Barbados

3

1

1

1

Belize

32

3

4

4

2

4

3

4

2

3

1

2

Bhutan

1

1

Bolivia

1

1

Botswana

15

3

2

2

2

1

1

1

1

1

1

Brunei

39

2

1

3

2

8

5

4

4

2

4

3

1

China

1

1

Czech Republic

5

1

1

1

1

1

Egypt

5

1

1

1

1

1

El Salvador

2

1

1

Ethiopia

3

1

2

Fiji

16

2

2

3

2

2

2

1

2

Gambia

5

1

1

2

1

Georgia

4

1

1

1

1

Ghana

6

2

1

1

1

1

Guatemala

6

1

1

1

1

1

1

Guyana

5

1

1

1

1

1

Hungary

2

2

Iraq

8

2

2

2

2

Ireland

1

1

Jamaica

51

7

9

2

4

2

6

4

3

5

2

5

2

Jordan

23

1

1

4

1

1

4

1

3

2

2

2

1

Kazakhstan

2

1

1

Kenya

9

2

2

1

1

1

1

1

Kuwait

55

8

8

4

6

5

6

3

5

2

4

4

Kyrgyzstan

1

1

Latvia

2

1

1

Lesotho

2

1

1

Lithuania

3

1

1

1

Luxembourg

2

1

1

Malawi

14

2

2

3

2

1

1

1

1

1

Malaysia

7

1

1

1

3

1

Maldives

2

1

1

Malta

12

1

2

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

Mauritius

2

1

1

Mauritania

1

1

Morocco

1

1

Mozambique

3

1

1

1

Namibia

4

2

1

1

Nepal

25

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

3

2

2

Nigeria

14

1

3

2

2

1

2

2

1

Oman

55

3

6

3

4

6

3

5

7

7

2

5

4

Pakistan

14

2

2

2

2

1

1

1

1

2

Palestine

2

2

Papua New Guinea

3

1

1

1

Paraguay

5

1

1

2

1

Philippines

3

1

1

1

Qatar

27

4

7

3

2

3

1

1

2

3

1

Rwanda

1

1

Saudi Arabia

13

1

1

1

2

1

1

2

2

2

Senegal

11

3

2

3

1

1

1

Singapore

16

2

1

2

2

2

2

2

1

1

1

Slovenia

1

1

South Arica

6

1

1

1

1

1

1

Sri Lanka

8

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

Sudan

2

2

Swaziland

2

1

1

Syria

1

1

Tanzania

9

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

Thailand

13

1

1

2

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

2

Tonga

1

1

Trinidad and Tobago

3

2

1

Uganda

8

1

2

1

1

1

1

1

Ukraine

6

1

1

1

1

1

1

United Arab Emirates

72

6

1

4

2

7

9

11

8

7

6

9

2

Uruguay

1

1

Uzbekistan

2

1

1

Yemen

20

1

1

4

5

3

3

3

Zimbabwe

8

3

2

2

1

Totals

774

79

71

63

60

68

71

73

69

69

59

67

25

Professionally Qualified Officer

Bahrain

4

1

1

Brunei

4

1

2

1

Estonia

1

1

Total

7

1

1

2

1

1

TA Commissioning Course

Bermuda

19

5

2

4

3

2

2

1

Grand totals

800

79

71

68

63

69

71

77

72

73

62

68

27

(1) 2008: January course only.

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