APPENDIX P
FUTURE OF SOVEREIGN BASE AREAS
Draft Exchange of Notes between the Representative of the
United Kingdom authorised to sign the Treaty of Establishment and Archbishop Makarios and
Dr. Kutchuk
A.-Draft Note to Archbishop Makarios and Dr. Kutchuk Your
Excellencies,
I have the honour to refer to the Sovereign Base Areas
mentioned in Article I of the Treaty concerning the establishment of the Republic of
Cyprus and in this connexion to state that the Government of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Northern Ireland do not intend to relinquish their sovereignty or effective
control over the Sovereign Base Areas and that therefore the question of their cession
does not arise.
B.-Draft Reply by Archbishop Makarios and Dr. Kutchuk Your
Excellency,
We have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your Note of
today's date, which reads as follows:-
[Text as A above]
2. We wish, on behalf of the Government of the Republic of
Cyprus, to assure you that the Republic of Cyprus will not demand that the United Kingdom
should relinquish their sovereignty or effective control over the Sovereign Base Areas. In
the event, however, that the Government of the United Kingdom, in view of changes in their
military requirements, should at any time decide to divest themselves of the aforesaid
sovereignty or effective control over the Sovereign Base Areas, or any part thereof, it is
understood that such sovereignty or control shall be transferred to the Republic of
Cyprus.
C.-Draft Note to Archbishop Makarios and Dr. Kutchuk
Your Excellencies,
I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your Note of
today's date which reads as follows:-
[Text as B above]
2. I have the honour further to state that the Government
of the United Kingdom are in full agreement with the views contained in that Note.
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