F ew places in the world are quite so remote as the 60 or so islands that make up the Chagos Archipelago. Africa sits 3,000km to the west, Indonesia 3,000km to the east; the nearest large land mass is ...
The deal that’s been announced is a rare win-win moment in international relations, with all the relevant actors able to ...
Mauritius has long argued it was forced to give up the islands in 1965 in return for independence from Britain ...
The UK government has announced that it will transfer sovereignty of a remote cluster of islands in the Indian Ocean to ...
The U.K. will maintain de facto control over Diego Garcia, and the crucial U.S. military facility there, for another 99 years ...
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) expressed its support for the UK-Mauritius Chagos archipelago agreement and said that ...
After more than half a century of dispute, the United Kingdom reached a “historic agreement” with Mauritius on Thursday ...
Washington said the deal protected the long-term, secure and effective operation of the strategic military base.
The Prime Minister said the agreement with Mauritius secures the long-term future of a joint UK-US military base.
In a historic decision this week, the UK transferred sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius after more than 200 years ...
Britain announced on Thursday, the 3rd of October, that it would transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a ...
Other large British Overseas Territories include the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Gibraltar, the British Virgin Islands and ...