A disputed archipelago with a US military airbase is at the center of a decolonization argument
The UN had given the U.K. six months to hand control of the Chagos Islands — an archipelago in the central Indian Ocean — back to Mauritius, but this deadline has now passed." in the Chagos Archipelago.
"The U.K. has no doubt as to our sovereignty over the British Indian Ocean Territory , which has been under continuous British sovereignty since 1814," Britain's Foreign and Commonwealth Office Britain's FCO was not immediately available for comment when contacted by CNBC on Friday morning. It has previously insisted it has every right to hold onto the islands.of 116 to six to demand the U.K. "unconditionally end its occupation of the Archipelago" within six months.
The move came only three months after the UN's high court advised Britain to leave the Chagos Islands as soon as possible. Alongside the U.K. and four others, the U.S. was one of the nations to vote against the UN resolution earlier this year. The world's largest economy has a military airbase on Diego Garcia, one of the islands that make up the Chagos Archipelago.
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