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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 18 November 2025

Debate

Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill

Contribution

I think that means that the only serious threat to Mauritius’s supreme national interests would be those designated after “national interests”, but it is not clear and, of course, they could go to some international tribunal and get a majority of their chums to vote that other supreme national threats would apply as well. I do not know. It seems to me a rather badly written term. It should say specifically that the only circumstances are those two.

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