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Islands of the Republic of Mauritius labelled in black. Sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago is disputed between Mauritius and the United Kingdom.Mauritius has repeatedly stated that the Chagos Archipelago is part of its territory and that the United Kingdom (UK) claim is a violation of United Nations resolutions banning the dismemberment of colonial territories before independence.
In a 13–1 ruling (with only Judge Joan Donoghue dissenting), the Court deemed the United Kingdom's separation of the Chagos Islands from the rest of Mauritius in 1965, when both were colonial territories, to be unlawful and found that the United Kingdom is obliged to end "its administration of the Chagos Islands as rapidly as possible." [2]
On 23 June 2017, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) voted in favour of referring the territorial dispute between Mauritius and the UK to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in order to clarify the legal status of the Chagos Islands archipelago in the Indian Ocean. The motion was approved by a majority vote with 94 voting for and 15 ...
The UK has denied the cost of handing over the Chagos Islands could rise to £18 billion and disputed claims made by the Mauritian Prime Minister about the renegotiated deal.
The UK and Mauritius have been holding talks and hope to finalise the deal to hand back the Chagos Islands “as quickly as possible”. They held a “series of productive, ongoing conversations ...
Un Demands Britain End Rule Of Chagos Islands In 6 Months. But a ruling by the International Court of Justice in 2019 that was backed by the United Nations found that the U.K. had no claim to the ...
Diego Garcia, now the site of an important US armed forces base.. The Chagos Islands are a cluster of 60 islands and seven atolls in the Indian Ocean.First occupied by lepers from Mauritius, France acquired the islands in the late 18th century, and slaves were brought in from Africa and India to maintain coconut plantations placed there.
Give Chagos Islands to Trump, ex-army chief urges as he lays into Starmer’s deal ... The government has argued that international legal rulings on sovereignty over the archipelago mean the UK ...