Written Question·Ministry of Defence·UIN 18986

Nuclear-free Zones: Treaties

Tabled: 10 December 2024

Answered: 16 December 2024

Named Day

Question

James Cartlidge

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 5 December 2024 to Question 16455 on Nuclear-free Zones: Treaties, whether the proposed treaty with Mauritius on the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands will include an exemption for the m

Answer

Luke Pollard

With reference to the answers that I provided to questions 16455 and 18117, asked by the Rt Hon Member for Rayleigh and Wickford, the UK’s primary goal throughout negotiations was to protect the joint UK-US military base on Diego Garcia, which plays a cru...

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