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<p>Before the start of General Purpose Force training on 11 June 2014, the UK held
extensive discussions with the Libyan government on the selection and vetting of Libyan
trainees. The Libyan government provided trainee candidates who had <br>been through
Libyan vetting and selection processes. <br><br>These candidates were subject to additional
UK vetting in Libya to ensure thoseselected met Foreign Office, Ministry of Defence
and Home Office requirements on security, immigration, medical, physical, literacy,
and numeracy criteria as<br>well as representing a distribution of trainees that was
geographically representativeof Libya. <br><br>Home Office visa processes included
checks against UK criminal databases and a visa declaration by all trainees that confirmed
they held no criminal convictionsor charges in the UK or elsewhere. We are not aware
that any of those candidates<br>who passed UK screening had criminal convictions or
faced charges at that time in theUK or elsewhere.</p><p> </p>
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