Editing Diego Garcia (section)

===Military administration===
The UK represents the territory internationally. A local government as normally envisioned does not exist.<ref>[https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/british-indian-ocean-territory/ CIA World Factbook] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210117034125/https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/british-indian-ocean-territory/ |date=17 January 2021 }}, accessed 23 August 2010.</ref> Rather, the administration is represented in the territory by the officer commanding British Forces on Diego Garcia, the "Brit rep". Laws and regulations are promulgated by the commissioner and enforced in the BIOT by Brit rep.

Of major concern to the BIOT administration is the relationship with the United States military forces resident on Diego Garcia. An annual meeting called "The Pol-Mil Talks" (for "political-military") of all concerned is held at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London to resolve pertinent issues. These resolutions are formalised by an "Exchange of Letters".<ref name="Sand_24"/>

Neither the US nor the UK recognises Diego Garcia as being subject to the [[African Nuclear Weapons Free Zone Treaty]], which lists BIOT as covered by the treaty.<ref>{{cite web |title=Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones at a Glance |publisher=Arms Control Association |url=http://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/nwfz.asp |access-date=28 July 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060809134008/http://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/nwfz.asp |archive-date=9 August 2006 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="10.1093/jel/eqn034">{{citation |title=Diego Garcia: British–American Legal Black Hole in the Indian Ocean? |first=Peter H. |last=Sand |date=29 January 2009 |periodical=Journal of Environmental Law |publisher=Oxford Journals |volume=21 |issue=1 |pages=113–137 |doi=10.1093/jel/eqn034}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://issafrica.s3.amazonaws.com/site/uploads/RATPAKPELINDABATREATYOCT08.PDF |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161121130925/https://issafrica.s3.amazonaws.com/site/uploads/RATPAKPELINDABATREATYOCT08.PDF |archive-date=21 November 2016 |url-status=live |title=Info |publisher=issafrica.s3.amazonaws.com |access-date=29 December 2019}}</ref> It is not publicly known whether [[nuclear weapon]]s have ever been stored on the island.<ref>{{cite journal |pages=20–21 |url=http://www.unidir.org/files/publications/pdfs/nuclear-weapon-free-zones-en-314.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402163456/http://www.unidir.org/files/publications/pdfs/nuclear-weapon-free-zones-en-314.pdf |archive-date=2 April 2015 |url-status=live |title=The Treaty of Pelindaba: towards the full implementation of the African NWFZ Treaty |author=Noel Stott |journal=Disarmament Forum |year=2011 |access-date=28 February 2015}}</ref> [[Noam Chomsky]] and Peter Sand have observed and emphasised that the US and UK stance is blocking the implementation of the treaty.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.democracynow.org/2010/5/17/denied_entry_israel_blocks_noam_chomsky|title=Denied Entry: Israel Blocks Noam Chomsky from Entering West Bank to Deliver Speech|publisher=democracynow.org|date=17 May 2010|access-date=2 February 2017|archive-date=27 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210427204341/https://www.democracynow.org/2010/5/17/denied_entry_israel_blocks_noam_chomsky|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.asil.org/insights/volume/13/issue/12/african-nuclear-weapon-free-zone-force-what-next-diego-garcia|first=Peter H.|last=Sand|title=African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in Force: What Next for Diego Garcia?|journal=ASIL Insights|volume=3|issue=12|date=28 August 2009|publisher=The American Society of International Law|archive-date=1 May 2015|access-date=21 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150501085204/http://www.asil.org/insights/volume/13/issue/12/african-nuclear-weapon-free-zone-force-what-next-diego-garcia|url-status=live}}</ref>