Chagos Islands
The Chagos Islands have been at the center of a decades-long dispute over Britains decision to separate them from Mauritius in 1965 and. The United Nations General Assembly.
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Families were torn apart.
. The problem for the mint is that the United Nations highest court the international court of justice ruled in 2019 that the UK unlawfully. It is the first time Mauritius has embarked upon an expedition to the islands without seeking the permission of the UK Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth said adding it is a. The Mauritian flag has been raised for the first time on the Chagos Islands an Indian Ocean archipelago controlled by Britain but claimed by Mauritius.
It is just 217 sq m 561 sq kms in area with more than half of the land being taken up by Diego Garcia the largest of the Chagos Islands. The Great Chagos Bank is the most noted of the geographical features as it is the worlds largest coral atoll. A delegation from Mauritius is setting sail to the Chagos Islands to press the countrys claim for the Indian Ocean archipelago which is also claimed by Britain and is home to a US military base.
The government of Mauritius announced on Tuesday that is sending a boat to the disputed Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean. The archipelago is under British rule but Mauritius has won growing. The Chagos islands were a part of Mauritius until Britain separated them a few years before Mauritius became independent from British colonial rule in 1968.
Small earthquakes are frequent in and around the archipelago but even though low-lying. F ifty years ago the entire Creole population of the Chagos Islands were forcibly removed from their homes by British forces in order to make way for a US military base. The flag of Mauritius has been planted in the British colony of the Chagos islands in the boldest move yet by the Indian Ocean state to assert its.
A delegation from Mauritius is setting sail to the Chagos Islands to press the countrys claim for the Indian Ocean archipelago which is also claimed by Britain and is home to a US military base.
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