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May 16th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
The Australian-controlled Cocos Islands.
DEFENCE plans to develop the Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean as a base for Australian and US spy drones and aircraft run counter to assurances Canberra has given the United Nations, one of Australia’s most senior foreign policy figures has warned.
Australia promised it would not ”militarise” the islands when persuading key nations at the world body not to oppose the transfer of the former British possession to Australian sovereignty, the former Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade secretary Richard Woolcott, said.
The recent Defence Force Posture Review suggested Defence consider upgrading the Cocos Islands airfield to support the new P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft likely to be acquired by the Royal Australian Air Force.
The US is looking at the islands, in the north-east quadrant of the Indian Ocean, as a base to watch over a vast sweep of Asia. The Cocos Islands were considered an ”ideal site” to base not only manned US surveillance planes but also the Global Hawk, a high-altitude surveillance drone, The Washington Post has reported. Spy flights could be launched over the South China Sea, scene of growing territorial disputes.
Mr Woolcott recalls that when he was Australian ambassador to the UN in 1984, he gave Australia’s assurances that the islands would not be converted to military purposes. ”There was nothing from us in writing, but verbal undertakings were given,” he said yesterday.
Mr Woolcott said he gave promises of non-militarisation to Third World countries, China and the then Soviet Union to avert an insistence on independence.
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