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Member
Speaking in the House of Commons on 20 October 2025
Debate
Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory BillContribution
We have also heard it said from the Dispatch Box that perhaps it is the United Nations convention on the law of the sea, but we also now know that in 2015 UNCLOS excluded itself from the ability to have jurisdiction on land-based disputes. So, my goodness, don’t we need amendment 7, which would require the Government to publish the legal arguments behind their currently baffling decision to go through with this deal?
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