uk and mauritius reach agreement to recognize mauritius' sovereignty over chagos islands
2024-10-04
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on october 3, local time, the governments of the united kingdom and mauritius issued a joint statement on the sovereignty of the chagos islands, including diego garcia. the statement said that the prime minister of mauritius and the british prime minister confirmed that they had reached an agreement on the issue of exercising sovereignty over the chagos islands.reached a historic agreement.
according to this agreement, the uk will grant mauritius sovereignty over the chagos islands, including diego garcia.at the same time, both parties agreed that in order to ensure the long-term, safe and effective operation of the existing us military base in diego garcia, the uk would be authorized to exercise sovereignty over diego garcia within the first 99 years.
mauritius is now free to implement its resettlement plan on the islands of the chagos archipelago, with the exception of diego garcia, the statement said.
the us military base diego garcia is located in the chagos islands in the middle of the indian ocean. it is part of the british indian ocean territory and is currently leased to the us military by the uk as a military base. the islands/reefs to which the chagos archipelago belongs are all british indian ocean territory. mauritius maintains that britain has no reason to occupy the chagos islands and that the islands should be handed over to mauritius. the united nations international court of justice issued an advisory opinion on february 25, 2019, arguing that the united kingdom should end its management of the chagos islands as soon as possible. but neither britain nor the united states paid heed to it. (headquarters reporter chen lincong)
