US EditionUN Urges UK to Negotiate New Chagos Deal that Allows Islanders to Return
- The UK and Mauritius signed a deal on May 22 transferring sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius while leasing the Diego Garcia military base back to the UK for 99 years.
- The deal follows a 2019 International Court of Justice advisory opinion and was prompted by the UK’s earlier separation of the islands from Mauritius in 1965 and the expulsion of Chagossians.
- UN experts and Chagossian representatives criticized the agreement for barring islanders’ return, omitting adequate cultural protections, and lacking meaningful Chagossian participation.
- The UK will pay an average of £101 million annually for 99 years to lease the base, with a £40 million trust fund for islanders, which UN experts say is not an effective remedy.
- Critics urge suspending the deal’s ratification and renegotiating to guarantee Chagossian rights to return, cultural access, and reparations while parliament considers blocking the agreement by July 3.
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Jim Allister KC is the Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) MP for North Antrim, and a former MEP and MLA. Since the signing of the profoundly misguided Chagos Treaty on 22 May, some have talked as if a House of Commons vote to approve ratification is a foregone conclusion. In reality, though, the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 makes it clear that unless Parliament objects to ratification within the set time period for doing so, the G…
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