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Defence Attachés

Volume 407: debated on Thursday 19 June 2003

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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to his answer of 15 May 2003, Official Report, column 329W, on defence attachés, how many defence attachés are in place in each of the locations listed. [118656]

A total of 128 UK defence attachés/ advisers are currently deployed in 82 locations as follows:

CountryCityNumber of attachés at post
AlbaniaTirana1 Army
AngolaLuanda1 Army
ArgentinaBuenos Aires2 (1 Army, 1 RAF)
AustraliaCanberra2(1 RN, 1 RAF)
AustriaVienna1 Army
BahrainManama1 RN
BarbadosBridgetown1 RN
BelgiumBrussels1 RAF
BrazilBrasilia2(1 RN, 1 Army)
BruneiBandar Seri Begawan1 RN
BulgariaSofia2(1 RN, 1 Army)
CanadaOttawa2(1 RN, 1 Army)
ChileSantiago1 Army
ChinaBeijing2(1 Army, 1 RAF)
ColombiaBogota1 Army
Congo DRCKinshasa1 Army
CroatiaZagreb1 Army
CyprusNicosia1 Army
Czech RepublicPrague2 (1 Army, 1 RAF)
DenmarkCopenhagen1 RN
EgyptCairo2(1 RN, 1 Army)
EthiopiaAddis Ababa1 Army
FinlandHelsinki1 Army
FranceParis3 (1 RN, 1 Army, 1 RAF)
GeorgiaTbilisi1 RAF
GermanyBerlin4 (1 RN, 2 Army, 1 RAF)
GhanaAccra1 Army
GreeceAthens2(1 RN, 1 Army)
GuatemalaGuatemala City1 Army
HungaryBudapest2(1 Army, 1 RAF)
IndiaNew Delhi2(1 Army, 1 RAF)
IndonesiaJakarta1 Army
IrelandDublin1 Army
IsraelTel Aviv2(1 Army, 1 RAF)
ItalyRome3(1 RN, 1 Army, 1 RAF)
JamaicaKingston1 Army
JapanToky1 RN
JordanAmman2(1 Army, 1 RAF)
KazakhstanAlmaty1 Army
KenyaNairobi1 Army
KoreaSeoul2(1 Army, 1 RAF)
KuwaitKuwait City1 Army
LatviaRiga1 Army
LebanonBeirut1 Army
LithuaniaVilnius1 Army
MacedoniaSkopje1 Army
MalaysiaKuala Lumpur2(1 RN, 1 Army)
CountryCityNumber of attachés at post
MoroccoRabat1 Army
NepalKathmandu1 Army
NetherlandsThe Hague1 RN
New ZealandWellington1 Army
NigeriaAbuja1 Army
NorwayOslo1 Army
OmanMuscat2(1 RN, 1 Army)
PakistanIslamabad2(1 RN, 1 Army)
PhilippinesManila1 Army
PolandWarsaw2(1 Army, 1 RAF)
PortugalLisbon1 RN
QatarDoha1 RAF
RomaniaBucharest2(1 Army, 1 RAF)
RussiaMoscow6(2 RN, 2 Army, 2 RAF)
Saudi ArabiaRiyadh3(1 RN, 1 Army, 1 RAF)
Serbia and MontenegroBelgrade1 Army
Sierra LeoneFreetown1 Army
SingaporeSingapore2(1RN, 1 RAF)
Slovak RepublicBratislava2(1 Army, 1 RAF)
SloveniaLjubljana1 Army
South AfricaPretoria2(1 Army, 1 RAF)
SpainMadrid2(1RN, 1 RAF)
Sri LankaColombo1 Army
SwedenStockholm1 RAF
SwitzerlandBerne1 Army
SyriaDamascus1 Army
ThailandBangkok1 Army
TurkeyAnkara2(1 Army, 1 RAF)
UgandaKampala1 Army
UkraineKyiv2(1 RN, 1 Army)
United Arab EmiratesAbu Dhabi1 Army
USAWashington8(3 RN, 3 Army, 2 RAF)
UzbekistanTashkent1 Army
VenezuelaCaracas1 RN
ZimbabweHarare1 Army
There are a total of four officers (two RN, two RAF) employed in Canada, Russia, India and USA as office managers; these are not accredited diplomatic posts.