The UK has announced it is giving up sovereignty of a remote but strategically important cluster of islands in the Indian Ocean after more than half a century.
The deal – reached after years of negotiations – will see the UK hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a historic move.
This includes the tropical atoll of Diego Garcia, used by the US government as a military base for its navy ships and long-range bomber aircraft.
The announcement, made in a joint statement by the British and Mauritian Prime Ministers on Thursday, ends decades of often fractious negotiations between the two countries over the islands.
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The UK has a loyal American dog has finally compromised 😉
Shame to the UK. It illegally kept the islands for dozens of years, rented them to the US as a military base, and now says that it is giving up, but to whom? Still to the US which will keep it as a military base. All the time, the UK has been challenging other countries as aggressive and hegemonical, does the UK have any shame at all?
right right, the bombers and artillery, thats the over and under of the swimwear contest of Hercules and superman
WTF literally treas0n . Mauritius is only a new country
So many little British imperialists in the comment section. Hearts still feel they should rule over others.
the british are pathetic. the archipelago should never have been given independence; the chagos have no indigenous population, the cocoanut workers being brought in as laborers in the 20th century.
The pirate needs to return everything to its owners
Take it from the occupier give it to the other
Diego Garcia, used by the US government as a military base for its navy ships and long-range bomber aircraft.? When are they leaving. I see it still as threat to the region and island natives people.
I found the narrative utterly amazing: China is aggressive because it’s building roads and bridges around the world; UK/US is a “hegemony of conscience” because it only builds naval bases thousands of miles away from the little Britain islands?
I guess, sure, building naval bases/nuclear test sites would not give locals debt-trap.
It's just two tier free gear arranging a lifetime of free holidays in Mauritius for himself. Nothing to concern us
Whatever BBC. Brexit has nothing to do with this, and it makes me want to vomit my organs all over you when you use brexit and colonialism in the same sentence – being that the EU is reflective of a facist empire of unelected leaders who hate the UK and english people
I think Mauritius has enough islands.
This is sending me to sleep
chagos is part of the islamic ummah
Stop pandering at black people
What moron thought this was a good idea ?
This is so historic that no one cares
MALVINAS ARGENTINAS,🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷
It's in the Indian ocean and was only associated with Mauritius for 50 years under British rule and is over a thousand miles away. The ICJ ruling is tenuous at best. The US supplanted the UK in other words.
Scumbags. Vote Reform UK. Time to take back our country.
Finally after decades Mauritius is complete as a republic
UK should return Biafra to Biafran's.
These war criminal b@stards have the sheer audacity to talk about human rights, democratic values and other countries respecting UN charter and sovereignty of Ukraine while they invade, murder, displace, then setup illegal occupations all over the world. Tjhey are still in Iraq and Syria illegally! the fkn nerve!
Sick mautitous shame on you allowing torture place there uss war crimes.
Yes us 8m0earlism at work f usa its torture base renditions starving solar children use to wage illegal wars brir usa is j7st reoccurring them instead britain
Mauritius never owned Chagos so how do you return it. Plonkers!
You don't called return? Something that never was yours ? Its called Vacated and released to the real owners!
@ 2:35 , News reporter: Britain gave USA a 99 year lease on Diego Garcia while Britain’s own lease runs out in 10 years. How’s that returning the Chago Islands to Mauritius ? Very Fishy.
start emptying Diego Garcia then
If Mauritius hasn't got a claim, to the Chagos Islands, how the hell has Britain? Her partner in crime, America has abused and polluted the Islands for decades. This is the problem with these two countries, they have regularly abused the rest of the world for decades, and are still at it.
And for you Brits, who are no doubt, angry that the Islands are to be returned, I ask you, have you no shame? When are we ever going to own up to the fact that, we viciously, shamelessly, insidiously, ravaged, exploited most of the world, and it's now payback time, whether we like it or not!
Even now, we are still not doing this willingly, as we should, NO, we are doing it because, we really, no longer, have a choice! Next will be the Falklands and Gibraltar. We will at some point, in the future, be forced to give them up. What goes around comes around!
we will get our island back then we'll rent it back to them to make money anually
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I am from Mauritius
So, the US is an imperialist owning Diego Garcia. These so call "free world", have they no shame for stealing Mauritius's land. It was never UK to give to the US. Why should Mauritius be forced not to get back their land immediately?
Great they finally noticed that the uk cannot keep this land robbing . Then the cheeky buggers open war bases. Why ..
Give Ireland back to the Irish. Or they can easily flood the uk with immragrating people .
End all this worldwide.. Forklands island as well. Rock of rock in galibrata
uk is a poor nation connected to london city
Nothing would surprise me anymore about Starmer and his cronies and shame on the BBC for supporting this awful woke government's anti British agenda. I'm not surprised that a further 500,000 people have cancelled their TV licences in the last 12 months. Not only is the BBC a nest for paedophiles but it's also openly bias in support of this vile morally bankrupt woke agenda that's both against and openly challenges Britains traditional Christian values… Shame on you.
Yeah,so when are they wrapping up their military base in Kenya,they have done more than enough environmental damage.
Not all nations CAN be bought.where are the judges to oversee this.
These colonial countries need to pay reparations to the ppl they displaced and back pay on the resources they stole and to assist with restoration of these locations.
YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO