Sovereign Base
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Sovereign bases are exclaves under the full sovereignty of a remote state, typically established through treaties, for the purpose of securely maintaining military installations outside the state's main national territory.
The term sovereign base is not a formal category in international law[1] with the only extant sovereign bases being Akrotiri and Dhekelia in Cyprus.[1] These military bases retained British sovereignty in 1960.[2]
American sovereign bases have been suggested as a part of the solution to the Greenland crisis,[3][4] dispensing with the need to ask permission from Denmark[5] although there are concerns that this is not a stable solution.[6] Other overseas military installations have been compared to sovereign bases, such as Guantanamo Bay,[7] Mayotte[8] and Diego Garcia.[9]
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