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These small uninhabited territories allow Paris to control about half of the Mozambique Canal, thanks to the exclusive maritime economic zones associated with them.
Madagascar: Row Over Scattered Islands Revived As France and Madagascar Hold Talks
French President Emmanuel Macron and Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina will meet in Paris on Monday to discuss the future of the long-disputed Scattered Islands - a chain of uninhabited islets in the Indian Ocean with big geopolitical, ecological and symbolic value.
A 50-year-old territorial dispute is again discussed in Paris on Monday, June 30th. France and Madagascar meet for the second time in the framework of the Joint Commission on the Eparses Islands, six years after a first meeting, to discuss the future of these micro-territories in the Mozambique Canal. Controlled by Paris, the Eparses Islands have long been claimed by Antananarivo.
Two delegations of Malagasy and French diplomats meet Monday 30 June in Paris to discuss the future of the Éparses Islands. French microterritory with strategic waters, this colonial heritage has been disputed for fifty years. Paris is now considering co-management.
The second meeting of the Franco-Malgache Joint Committee on the Éparses Islands is held in Paris this Monday, five years after the first session organized in Antananarivo in 2019. If the diplomatic calendar seems to follow its course, on the ground, Malagasy citizens' voices rise strongly to remind that the time of the felt discussions cannot eternize in the face of what they consider to be a historical injustice.
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