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DIEGO GARCIA
WILL DIEGO GARCIA PROVIDE THE SAME NAVAL REPAIR AND OTHER FACILITIES AS SIMONSTOWN?.
No.
The two cannot be compared.
Simonstown is an established
base with full ship support
facilities.
Diego Garcia is at
present an austere naval communications
would
facility which is to be expanded to
provide modest support facilities.
It could not provide repair,
recreation or maintenance facilitie6
similar to those at Simonstown.
CAN YOU SAY WHAT THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE FACILITIES AT DIEGO GARCIA INVOLVES?
The modest improvements to the
facilities now on the Joland to handle
would
ships and aircraft with include
lengthening of the runway, improving
ship support facilitics, enlarging
the airfield ramp area and increasing
POL storage. These facilities for
refuelling, resupply and minor
would
maintenance wilt be available
to UK as well as US forces.
WHAT IS THE EXISTING AGREEMENT WITH THE US
ON DIEGO GARCIA?
The 1966 British Indian Ocean
Territories Agreement and the 1972
Diego Garcia Agreement.
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A new
Agreement will be concluded and
published in due course.
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