No plan to house India military base: Mauritius

NEW DELHI, 06 August 2021, (TON): Mauritius has denied a report that it has allowed India to build a military base on the remote island of Agalega, with a government official telling AFP that no such agreement exists between the two nations. Earlier this week, media sources reported on the construction of an airstrip and two jetties to house an Indian military base on Agalega, located about 1,000 kilometres north of the archipelago's main island. But on Wednesday, Ken Arian, a communications adviser to Mauritius PM Pravind Jugnauth, denied any plans to allow a military installation on Agalega, home to about 300 people.

Arian told media that although work was under way on two projects agreed during Indian PM Narendra Modi's 2015 visit to Mauritius, a three-kilometre (1.8-mile) air strip and a jetty, they would not be used for military purposes.

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