US EditionBritain halts Chagos Island deal ratification, BBC reports
The UK is delaying a treaty to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius while addressing US concerns about leasing a joint military base, costing £101 million annually.
- 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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The Independent (US)New Chagos shambles as government forced to deny deal paused over Trump
Donald Trump has branded Keir Starmer’s deal to hand over islands to Mauritius a ‘big mistake’
The British Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs for the Middle East, Hamish Falconer, informed the British Parliament this Wednesday that the United Kingdom has paralysed the legal process to hand over control of the Chagos Archipelago, in the middle of the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius. According to Falconer, London is now discussing "directly with the United States" Washington's concerns about this territorial cession, which includes the sovereignt…
The UK is pausing the process of legally ratifying an agreement to hand over control of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius while talks with the US continue, a British minister said today.
The British Sea has suspended the ratification process of the agreement by which it would confer sovereignty on the Chagos Archipelago, including on the islands which are the US-British strategically important air base Diego Garcia, said Wednesday...
The Great Britain suspends the process of ratifying the agreement by granting the sovereignty of the Chagos archipelago to the island of Mauritius, announces BBC Wednesday, according to News.ro. The Chagos Archipelago includes, in particular, an island that finds an important...
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