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Member
Speaking in the House of Lords on 25 November 2025
Debate
Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory BillContribution
The Bill, however, will facilitate the coming into force of a treaty that will extend the Republic of Mauritius to cover 60 additional islands located some 1,330 miles away. Not only that but the islands are of immense geostrategic significance and the treaty proposes that they are transferred from a country that is a nuclear power with a navy to a country that does not even have a navy. This was brought home forcefully by the publication of an article on 11 September by the news site Devdiscourse. It states:
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