UK set to sign Chagos Islands deal with Mauritius

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According to people familiar with the matter, the UK is about to sign a controversial agreement to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius as soon as Thursday.

The agreement, which will see that Diego Garcia is expected to agree to pay one million pounds to hold access to the US-US-US-US-military base while transferring the sovereignty of the Indian Ocean Islands to the US-US-US-military base, deeply awaiting the site’s strategic importance.

Long -planned arrangements for British Indian Ocean He has been heavily criticized by the Opposition Conservative Party, which accuses the UK Prime Minister Sir Care Starmar leaving a key strategic asset and sadling for taxpayers to maintain access to large payments.

However, under President Donald Trump, US criticism has been muted. The United States and the United Kingdom are ready to hold access to the base according to the lease of 99 years.

On Wednesday, Shadow UK Foreign Secretary Preet Patel said that the agreement was “a betrayal of our national interest by labor, the last day before the parliamentary vacation.”

After the completion of a post-Brexit reset in the United Kingdom in relation to Brussels earlier this week, “It seems that Starmer has now been prepared to make our own sovereign region more in the hands of Mauritius, and then asked the British people to pay a billion to its outrage,” he said.

Labor has earlier said that the agreement will not be finalized until it is approved by MPS.

Party officials have argued that the agreement was launched under the previous conservative government and under international law it was essential to reach an agreement on the sovereignty of the islands.

The UK government has effectively transferred a veto on the US administration’s draft agreement, due to the impact of the security of Diego Garcia’s joint UK-US military bases.

But when Trump hosted Starmar at the White House in February, he indicated that he would do Support The UK, which was discussed with Mauritius, was seen as an important victory for the British Prime Minister.

The President’s support for this Agreement came to the UK as a relief because some officials of the Trump administration including Former National Security Advisor Mike WaltzRaised concerns about the system before joining the White House.

“President Trump’s predecessor is to protect long -term US activities from Diego Garcia,” a White House official said on Wednesday. “President Trump discussed it with Prime Minister Starmer during a visit to the White House. The UK is moving forward with the deal.”