UK Hands Indian Ocean Islands To Mauritius But Keeps Key US Military Base
Britain on Thursday said it would give up sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, but under what President Joe Biden called a "historic agreement" will keep a strategic Indian Ocean military base with the United States.
Starmer hands Chagos Islands back to Mauritius
Sir Keir Starmer has given up the Chagos Islands, handing the Indian Ocean territory to Mauritius. The islands were British-owned from 1814 but have now been signed away by the Government in a deal that it claimed would safeguard global security by ending a long-running dispute.
The U.K. says it has reached a "historic" deal to cede the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean to the Republic of ...
Britain is giving up sovereignty of a remote group of islands in return for securing the long-term future of a strategically ...
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The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) is a UK Overseas Territory situated halfway between Tanzania and Indonesia and comprising the seven atolls of the Chagos Archipelago, itself comprising over 1 ...
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British Foreign Minister David Lammy said the deal settled the contested sovereignty of Britain’s last overseas territory in ...
Critics in Britain fear this would open access to China, but a British-US military base will remain even after Mauritius ...
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