Written Question·Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office·UIN 25391

Diego Garcia: Military Bases

Tabled: 21 January 2025

Answered: 30 January 2025

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Question

Ben Obese-Jecty

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to his Department's press release entitled UK and Mauritius joint statement, 3 October 2024, published on 3 October 2024, from whom will the United States leas

Answer

Stephen Doughty

With respect to Diego Garcia, there is no lease. US presence and operations in the British Indian Ocean Territory are governed by a series of international agreements, beginning with a 1966 Exchange of Notes between the US and UK, which set out that the w...

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