UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced Thursday he had signed an agreement to return the remote Chagos Islands to Mauritius in return for continued use of a key military base.
“A few moments ago, I signed a deal to secure the joint UK-US base on Diego Garcia,” Starmer said, after a high court judge ruled the agreement could go ahead.
A British court on Thursday paved the way for a government deal on returning the remote Chagos Islands to Mauritius, lifting a temporary ban that had forced an 11th-hour halt to an accord being signed.
The agreement would see Britain hand back the Indian Ocean archipelago to its former colony and pay to lease a key US-UK military base on Diego Garcia, the largest island.
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