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Britain halts Chagos Island deal ratification, BBC reports
UK insists no pause in ratifying the £35 billion Chagos sovereignty deal despite US President Trump’s criticism and ongoing talks with American officials.
- Recently, Foreign Office Minister Hamish Falconer said `We have a process going through parliament in relation to the treaty. We will bring that back to parliament at the appropriate time. We are pausing for discussions with our American counterparts`.
- After earlier US support, a recent US statement prompted Trump to urge Starmer to scrap the deal, despite support when signed last year.
- A UK government source told the BBC there was 'no pause, we have never set a deadline and timings will be announced in the usual way.'
- The treaty would transfer sovereignty to Mauritius and the UK would pay about £101m a year to lease back the US military base on Diego Garcia, largest island in the Chagos archipelago.
- Last year the UK and Mauritius struck the agreement to settle the future of the Chagos Islands, and media outlets say updates will follow.
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Government denies Chagos Island deal is paused after Trump ...
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The Independent (US)New Chagos shambles as government forced to deny deal paused over Trump
It comes as a group of Chagossians who have defied the UK government and landed on one of the Indian Ocean islands have told The Independent that they are not there for a publicity stunt and plan to stay permanently
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Far-Left UK Govt DENIES Pausing Strategic Islands Giveaway After Trump Intervention.
PULSE POINTSWHAT HAPPENED: The British government has denied reports that Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has paused his deal to give away the British Indian Ocean Territory (Chagos Islands), which includes the British-American Diego Garcia base, after President Donald J. Trump criticized the agreement.WHO WAS INVOLVED: Donald Trump, Keir Starmer, British Foreign Office (State Department) Minister Hamish Falconer, Reform Party leader Nigel Farag…
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