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 the handover over sovereignty of the remote Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean to the country.
Jugnauth took to X to thank Modi as he wrote, “Mauritius thanks the African Union @AfricanUnion, the Government of India @narendramodi and all friendly countries which have supported us in our fight for completing our decolonisation.” On Thursday, the UK announced a “historic” agreement that Britain would hand over sovereignty of the remote Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean to Mauritius while it retained the joint UK-US military base on Diego Garcia.
The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) status of the disputed archipelago, comprised of around 60 islands, has been in contention for many years. Negotiations over its future began under the previous Conservative Party government in 2022.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer spoke to his Mauritian counterpart Jugnauth soon after to welcome the political agreement achieved between the UK and Mauritius on the exercise of sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago after two years of negotiations.
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