Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Kumar Jugnauth on Friday thanked his Indian counterpart. Narendra Modi for “completing our decolonisation” a day after the UK government announced it would hand over sovereignty of the remote Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean to the country.
Jugnauth took to The United Kingdom on Thursday announced a “historic” deal that will see Britain hand over sovereignty of the remote Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean to Mauritius, while retaining the joint UK-US military base at Diego Garcia.
The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) status of the disputed archipelago, made up of around 60 islands, has been in dispute for many years and negotiations over its future began under the previous Conservative Party government in 2022.
The British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, spoke shortly afterwards with his Mauritian counterpart, Jugnauth, to welcome the political agreement reached between the United Kingdom and Mauritius on the exercise of sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago after two years of negotiations.
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