Written Question·Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office·UIN 35008

Diego Garcia: Military Bases

Tabled: 3 March 2025

Answered: 13 March 2025

Named Day

Question

Ben Obese-Jecty

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether the UK’s right to extend the 99-year lease on the Chagos Islands was renegotiated with the government of Mauritius in the period between his Oral Statement of 7 Octob

Answer

Stephen Doughty

As we and Mauritius have repeatedly said, including in joint statements on 20 December and on 13 January, both sides remain committed to concluding a deal on the future of the Chagos Archipelago which protects the long-term effective operation of the join...

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