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  5. UK Hands Over Chagos Islands to Mauritius in Landmark Sovereignty Deal Securing Diego Garcia Military Base

UK Hands Over Chagos Islands to Mauritius in Landmark Sovereignty Deal Securing Diego Garcia Military Base

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The UK has agreed to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, ending decades of British control over the Indian Ocean archipelago. The agreement, worth £101 million per year for at least 99 years, will see the UK lease back the largest island, Diego Garcia, for continued joint operation of a strategically important US military base.

  1. GB
    10 Downing Street
    1. The deal is the right thing to protect the British people and our national security.
  2. GB
    Robert Jenrick
    British Conservative Party
    1. You're seeing British sovereign territory being given away to an ally of China, and billions of pounds of British taxpayers' money being spent for the privilege.
  3. GB
    Kemi Badenoch
    British Conservative Party
    1. This is a vital military base. Mauritius is an ally of China.
    2. We should not be paying to surrender British territory to Mauritius.
    3. The Chagos Islands have been British since 1814. Only Keir Starmer's Labour Party would negotiate a deal where we're paying to give something away.
  4. GB
    Keir Starmer
    Labour Party
    1. A few moments ago, I signed a deal to secure the joint UK-US base on Diego Garcia.
  5. GB
    Peter Lamb
    Labour Party
    1. What should I tell my Chagossian constituents, when they ask the moral basis upon which the U.K. is ignoring their right to self-determination while we fight for it in Ukraine for Ukrainians?
  6. MU
    Navin Ramgoolam
    1. We are completing the process of total decolonization.
  7. GB
    Bertrice Pompe
    1. We do not want to hand over our rights to Mauritius. We are not Mauritians.

Chagos Islands Transfer

  1. UK Court Lifts Block on Deal to Hand Chagos Islands to Mauritius
  2. UK transfers sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius in deal securing Diego Garcia military base

sources

  1. 1.South China Morning Post
  2. 2.France 24
  3. 3.Le Monde
  4. 4.The Times of India
  5. 5.NPR
  6. 6.Agence France-Presse

perspectives

  1. 1.US Foreign Policy
  2. 2.Chinese Foreign Policy
  3. 3.British Foreign Policy
  4. 4.Biodiversity
  5. 5.Immigration to the UK
  6. 6.Indian Foreign Policy
  7. 7.Colonialism

countries

  1. 1.AfghanistanAF
  2. 2.AustraliaAU
  3. 3.CanadaCA
  4. 4.ChinaCN
  5. 5.FranceFR
  6. 6.United KingdomGB
  7. 7.IsraelIL
  8. 8.IndiaIN
  9. 9.IraqIQ
  10. 10.MauritiusMU
  11. 11.New ZealandNZ
  12. 12.UkraineUA

organizations

  1. 1.Conservative Party
  2. 2.Labour Party
  3. 3.International Court of Justice
  4. 4.United Nations
  5. 5.British Conservative Party
  6. 6.British Foreign OfficeGB
  7. 7.Court of Appeal
  8. 8.Reform UK
  9. 9.US Navy
  10. 10.White HouseUS

persons

  1. 1.Keir StarmerGB
  2. 2.Bernadette Dugasse
  3. 3.Bertrice PompeGB
  4. 4.Kemi BadenochGB
  5. 5.Navin RamgoolamMU
  6. 6.Donald TrumpUS
  7. 7.Martin Chamberlain
  8. 8.Fatima Al-Kassab
  9. 9.Marco RubioUS
  10. 10.Nigel FarageGB
  11. 11.Peter LambGB
  12. 12.Philip Rule

technicals

  1. 1.Chagos Islands
  2. 2.Diego Garcia
  3. 3.British Empire