Czagos. Closer to the transmission of the Archipelago to Mauritius by Great Britain. There is US consent

The United States has agreed that Great Britain would transfer to Mauritius the island of Czagos. The Keira Starmer government is finalizing the agreement with the former colony. Under it, he will give his sovereignty over the archipelago, but he will rent one of his islands for at least 99 years. Signing the treaty is expected in the near future.

Great Britain and Mauritius work on the finalization of the Czagos Islands agreement. The archipelago is to be sent to the sovereignty of the latter. However, the British are to lease the island of Diego Garcia, where it is created by USA military base. Donald Trump's administration has already approved the content of the agreement, British media said on Tuesday.

– We work with the Mauritius government to finalize and sign the treaty. The document will be submitted to the Chamber of Parliament for inspection and ratification – said Tom Wells, deputy spokesman for Prime Minister Starmer, asked about the case. On plans to transfer sovereignty over the islands It was already informed in October 2024but changes in the authorities of Mauritius and the USA delayed work.

Chagos to Mauritius is getting closer to

The planned lease of the island of Diego Garcia, where the sea and air base is located, will last at least 99 years. The base is currently under the British-American jurisdiction. According to Kemi Badenoch, an opposition leader towards the Government of the Starmer of the Conservative Party and numerous politicians of this grouping, giving away the islands and subsequent paying for the possibility of using one of them “is not in the national interest of” Great Britain. The government does not specify how much the lease will cost. However, he announces that in the near future he will share data on this subject.

Czagos archipelago

The Czagos archipelago consists of over 60 small, but strategically significant islands. Until 1965, he remained administratively associated with Mauritius. Due to the plan to grant independence to Mauritius, Great Britain, however, separated the islands from him and formed a separate entity called the British territory of the Indian Ocean. Later, due to the negotiated agreement with the United States about the creation of a military base on Diego Garcia, the only inhabited island of the archipelago, the whole population displaced from it.

Mauritius has long argued that he was forced to give the islands of Czagos in exchange for the consent of Great Britain for his independence, but for years he failed to get any significant support for these claims. In recent years, the situation has begun to change. Support for the case, impressive African states, as well as various organs UNwhich prompted the previous British government to start negotiations.