The Unnoticed Beneficiary of the Mauritius-UK Chagos Island Deal? India.
New Delhi has far more influence on Mauritius than may be noticed in Europe. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a bilateral meeting with Pravind Kumar Jugnauth, then prime minister of Mauritius, at Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India, Apr. 25, 2022.
UK’s £9bn Chagos Islands deal is ‘reparations’, say Mauritian politicians
Senior politicians in Mauritius have described the £9 billion Britain is expected to pay to hand over the Chagos Islands as “reparations” and a “fair” price. In an interview with The Telegraph, Georges Pierre Lesjongard, the leader of the opposition, said the money “forms part of the decolonisation process”.
But some Republicans worry about handover to Mauritius, a close China ally, as archipelago includes US-UK military base Diego ...
International judge Patrick Robinson ruled against the UK over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands and co-authored a report ...
US president Donald Trump says he and Sir Keir Starmer ‘get along famously’ as they start key White House talks ...
President Trump and Prime Minister Starmer discussed a new US-UK trade deal, with Trump suggesting tariffs may be avoidable ...
An international judge who ruled against the UK on the Chagos Islands has since also called for Britain to pay more than £18 trillion in reparations for slavery. Patrick Robinson, a Jamaican ...
Energy Secretary Ed Miliband In related news following the UK/Mauritius deal over sovereignty to the Chagos islands, Ed Miliband Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, in an ...
The Chagos Islands deal will not go ahead without the backing of Donald Trump , Foreign Secretary David Lammy has said.
A figure for the value of the deal has not been disclosed, but it has been reported at a cost of £90 million per year.
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