Mauritius vows to ‘decolonise’ Chagos Islands after Starmer shelves handover

Mauritius pledges to intensify its campaign for sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago after UK legislation falters, citing a lack of US approval under Trump. | Contesto: cronaca

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• Mauritius vows to ‘decolonise’ Chagos Islands after Starmer shelves handover

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The government of Mauritius has vowed to redouble its efforts to regain sovereignty over the Chagos Islands after the UK government, led by Prime Minister Keir Starmer, shelved planned legislation to hand over the disputed archipelago. UK officials acknowledged on Friday that they had run out of parliamentary time to pass the necessary bill before the end of the current session, a delay attributed to a lack of support from former US President Donald Trump for the proposed agreement. The stalled legislation represents a significant setback for a long-negotiated process aimed at resolving one of the last major colonial disputes. The Chagos Archipelago, located in the Indian Ocean, has been under British control since 1814. In the 1960s and 1970s, the UK separated the islands from Mauritius, then a British colony, and leased the largest island, Diego Garcia, to the United States for a strategic military base. The creation of the base involved the forced removal of the entire indigenous Chagossian population, a act for which the UK has since expressed regret. Mauritius has consistently maintained that the separation was illegal under international law, a position that has gained substantial traction in recent years. In 2019, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued an advisory opinion stating that the UK's continued administration of Chagos is unlawful and that it should end its control. Later that year, the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly voted in favor of a resolution backing the ICJ's opinion and giving the UK a six-month deadline to withdraw, which it ignored. The current impasse hinges on complex geopolitical considerations, primarily the status of the Diego Garcia base. The facility is a critical hub for US military and intelligence operations in the Indian Ocean and Middle East. Any transfer of sovereignty has been contingent on guarantees that the base's operations would be unaffected. According to sources, the Trump administration's reluctance to formally approve the negotiated safeguards for the base directly contributed to the legislative delay in London, leaving the Starmer government without the necessary bilateral consensus to proceed. In...

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