HC Deb 05 February 1973 vol 850 cc16-7W
Mr. Dalyell

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs on what terms Great Britain has granted rights for constructing a staging post or base to the United States Government on Diego Garcia, in the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean.

Mr. Anthony Royle

The terms for the construction by the United States Government of a limited naval communications facility on Diego Garcia atoll in the Chagos Archipelago are set out in the United States/United Kingdom exchange of notes of October 1972, published in November 1972 (Cmnd. 5160).

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