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UK To Return Chagos Islands But Secretive US Base Will Remain

The United Kingdom agreed last week to return the Chagos Islands, a remote archipelago in the Indian Ocean

2024-10-12 13:19:27 0 Comment 4623 view

Moves Of UK And US Over Chagos Expose True Nature Of ‘Values-Based Alliance'

BEIJING, China: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and visiting British Foreign Secretary David Cameron said on Thursday local time in a joint press conference that they had discussed the "vital" US-UK Indian Ocean air base at Diego Garcia. Cameron did not give a specific response when asked if the UK was dropping plans to return the Chagos Islands, of which Diego Garcia is the largest member, to Mauritius, while Blinken said that Washington "recognizes UK sovereignty over British Indian Ocean Territory."

2023-12-14 01:56:45 0 Comment 46016 view

The Chagossians Want Their Islands Back

WASHINGTON, U.S.--When Olivier Bancoult boarded the ship that was to take him 1,000 miles across the Indian Ocean to the Chagos Archipelago—his childhood home, from which he and his fellow islanders had been expelled 50 years earlier—he carried five wrought-iron crosses.

2022-07-04 01:56:20 0 Comment 64339 view

Rights Defenders Under Attack In Asia

NEW YORK, U.S.--Reprisals against human rights defenders were in the spotlight on Wednesday as UN independent experts documented instances of abuse in Indonesia and Pakistan. 

2021-12-17 23:29:23 0 Comment 75171 view