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Diego Garcia: Military Bases

Asked by Priti PatelConservativeForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled Answered 22 September 2025UIN 75282

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, on what date he agreed to remove the provision to provide the UK with a unilateral right to extend the 99-year lease for the use of Diego Garcia from the draft UK-Mauritius T

Answered by Stephen Doughty

As we have consistently said, we are not going to provide a commentary on the negotiations, nor our implementation talks. The final, agreed Treaty has been laid in Parliament.

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