Tag: Chagos Islands

• Tuesday, February 26th 2019 - 10:02 UTC

  UK should end control of Chagos Islands “as rapidly as possible” says International Court of Justice

  

  UK should end its control of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean “as rapidly as possible”, the UN's highest court has said. Mauritius claims it was forced to give up the islands - now a British overseas territory - in 1965 in exchange for independence, which it gained in 1968.

• Saturday, February 23rd 2019 - 09:01 UTC

  ICJ will rule on the Chagos people UK/Mauritius dispute on Monday

  

  The UN's top court will hand down its view on Monday, February 25, in a bitter dispute between Britain and Mauritius over the fate of the Chagos islands, home to key UK and US military base.

• Thursday, March 8th 2018 - 09:25 UTC

  Argentine presentation on the Falklands and the Chagos archipelago

  

  A brief release from the Argentine foreign ministry indicates that on March first, on petition from the International Court of Justice, Argentina presented its Consultive Opinion on the juridical consequences of splitting the Chagos archipelago from the Mauritius Islands which took place in 1965.

• Monday, July 4th 2016 - 04:27 UTC

  Chagos Islanders, forcibly removed 40 years ago, lose legal challenge to return

  

  The former residents of the Chagos Islands who were forcibly removed from their homeland more than 40 years ago have lost their legal challenge to return. Families left the Indian Ocean islands in the 1960s and 70s to make way for a US Air Force base on Diego Garcia, the largest of the group of islands.

• Friday, April 3rd 2015 - 06:03 UTC

  Argentina poses no military threat to the Malvinas Islands. So why is the UK ratcheting up tension?

  

  The following column by Alicia Castro (*) was published 02 April by the Independent - On 24 March, the day that a debate was held in Parliament over the increase in defense expenditure for the Malvinas Islands, Argentina was commemorating the anniversary of the 1976 military coup.

• Tuesday, February 17th 2015 - 05:27 UTC

  Lord Prescott strongly supports the return of Chagossians to Diego Garcia

  

  British ex Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has made a powerful intervention in the campaign to grant Chagossians the right to return to their homeland, reports the UK Chagos Support Association.

• Saturday, April 5th 2014 - 02:51 UTC

  Diego García and Falklands in the same 'claim basket', anticipates Chagos leader

  

  The leader of thousands of displaced Chagos islanders fighting Britain for a return to their Indian Ocean archipelago (Diego García) has said they will wage a joint diplomatic battle alongside Argentina as it seeks sovereignty over the Falklands, according to a report from The Telegraph credited to Hannah Strange.

• Tuesday, March 4th 2014 - 23:22 UTC

  Britain's new 'governor of the Falkland islands' is a provocation

  

  By Alicia Castro, Argentine ambassador in London - Ms Castro writes a column in The Guardian to complain about the appointment of Colin Roberts as the next Falkland Islands governor and unearths some Wikileaks cables referred to the incoming governor's attitude regarding the Chagos islanders forced eviction, and plans to ensure they will never be returned by declaring the vast area a 'marine park' allegedly questioned by US diplomacy.

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

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

  

  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.

• Monday, May 20th 2013 - 07:12 UTC

  Falkland Islands: Argentina blasts UK’s ‘double standard’ on self determination right

  

  Argentina questioned the UK after its negative vote at the United Nations General Assembly “to place French Polynesia back on the UN list of non autonomous territories that should be decolonised” Additionally Argentina renewed its claim over the Falkland Islands sovereignty and described the UK attitude, ‘colonial hypocrisy’.