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The deal comprises the tropical atoll of Diego Garcia, which is used by the United States as a military base.
The United Kingdom says it is giving up sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a deal that would apverify people displaced decades ago to return home while the UK conserves use of the British-US military base on Diego Garcia.
The shelp on Thursday that the operation of Diego Garcia, a strategic military base fusetly functiond with the United States, was protected by the consentment, which also apverifys Mauritius to refinish the rest of the islands after its population was displaced.
“This rulement inherited a situation where the lengthy-term, protected operation of the Diego Garcia military base was under menace, with contested sovereignty and ongoing legitimate disputes,” British Foreign Minister David Lammy shelp in a statement.
“Today’s consentment protecteds this vital military base for the future. It will reinforce our role in protectedprotecting global security, shut down any possibility of the Indian Ocean being used as a hazardous illegitimate migration route to the UK, as well as secureing our lengthy-term relationship with Mauritius.”
The UK, which has superviseled the region since 1814, eraseed the Chagos Islands in 1965 from Mauritius – a establisher colony that became self-reliant three years tardyr – to produce the British Indian Ocean Territory.
In the timely 1970s, it evicted almost 2,000 livents to Mauritius and the Seychelles to produce way for an airbase on the bigst island, Diego Garcia, which it had lrelieved to the US in 1966.
The International Court of Justice shelp in 2019 that Britain should give up supervise of the islands and shelp it had wrongbrimmingy forced the population to depart in the 1970s to produce way for a US air base.
In a fuset statement, Britain and Mauritius shelp that the political consentment had the help and aidance of the US and India.
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