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Montevideo, May 30th 2025 - 05:59 UTC

Tag: British Indian Ocean Territory

  • Thursday, October 3rd 2024 - 23:21 UTC

    British Indian Ocean Territory of Chagos to be handed over to Mauritius

    Mauritian Prime Minister Pravind Kumar Jugnauth issued a joint statement with Keir Starmer outlining the details of the new understanding ahead of a final treaty

    The Government of Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer agreed Thursday to hand over sovereignty over the British Indian Ocean Territory Chagos Islands to Mauritius after two years of talks to bring to an end a dispute lasting some six decades. As per the new understanding, the UK and the United States get to keep using the military base in Diego García Island, British Foreign Secretary David Lammy explained.

  • Friday, December 9th 2022 - 16:03 UTC

    The future of the Chagossian people and sovereignty for British Indian Ocean Territory

    Members of the APPG Falklands at the Tumbledown Mount monument to the Scottish Guards

    By Daniel Kawczynski, MP for  Shrewsbury & Atcham since 2005  - Before I start to talk about this British Overseas Territory, I would like to say that I returned last week from another British Overseas Territory—the Falkland Islands—with my hon. Friend James Sunderland and Stephen Doughty, who is the shadow Minister for the Overseas Territories.

  • Tuesday, October 22nd 2013 - 05:45 UTC

    Malvinas: Argentina invites Chagos group to expose contradictions in UK's decolonization policy

    Timerman will be hosting Mr. Bancould from the Chagos Refugees Group

    Argentina's Foreign minister Hector Timerman will receive on Tuesday Olivier Bancoult, president of the Chagos Refugees Group, the entity which represents the 'Chagossians' forcibly ousted from their lands by the United Kingdom. The administration of President Cristina Fernandez pretends to expose contradictions in the UK's approach to the Chagos case and the Falklands sovereignty dispute.

  • Tuesday, July 9th 2013 - 05:58 UTC

    UK announces new feasibility study into resettlement of the British Indian Ocean Territory

    Minister Simmonds made the announcement to Parliament

    The British government announced to Parliament that it will commission a new feasibility study into the resettlement of the British Indian Ocean Territory, BIOT, whose indigenous population the Chagossian was removed in the sixties and early seventies for defense reasons and is an issue that remains highly controversial and sensitive.