chagos islands case

6. The United Kingdom and the United States conducted further negotiations between 1964 and 1965 regarding the desirability of "detachment of the entire Chagos Archipelago," as well as the islands of On 19 July 1965, the Governor of Mauritius was instructed to communicate the proposal to detach the Chagos Archipelago to the Mauritius Council of Ministers and to report back on the Council’s reaction. 30 P.M. ON THURSDAY 23rd SEPTEMBER MR. PATURAU asked that his disagreement should be noted. to third party or (b) any payment or financial obligation by Mauritius as condition of return. (3) In (viii) "on or near" means within area within which Mauritius would be able to derive benefit but for change of sovereignty. It was in the interest of Mauritius to take the opportunity offered to ensure a friendly military presence in the area. SIR H. POYNTON said that the Mauritius Government should not lose sight of the possibility of securing aid for such purposes from the World Bank, the I.D.A.

SIR H. POYNTON said that the total sum available for C.D. & W. allocation in a different form and it would be open to them after the three year period to seek further assistance such as Britain was providing for a number of independent Commonwealth countries. Likewise, in the Chagos Case, by accepting that the bilateral dispute was inseparable from the issue of Mauritius' decolonization, the Court effectively resolved the question of sovereignty. This underhanded arrangement became the prelude for the removal of all 3,000 occupants from the Islands. 2. 3. (iii) compensation totalling up to £3m. 423 of 6 October so long as qualifications contained in paragraphs 5 and 6 of the despatch are borne in mind. 13.

Once done, “we must be very tough and a submission is being done accordingly.” What followed was a forced eviction of the inhabitants and the construction of the US base on Diego Garcia.This nastiness proved perennial. What was important about the compensation was the use to which the lump sum was put. Thereafter, Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam addressed a handwritten note to the Under-Secretary of State at the Colonial Office, Mr Trafford Smith, setting out further conditions relating to navigational and meteorological facilities on the Archipelago, fishing rights, emergency landing facilities, and the benefit of mineral or oil discoveries.

22. Present:- The Secretary of State (in the Chair) Lord Taylor Sir Hilton Poynton Sir John Rennie Mr. P. R. Noakes Mr. J. Stacpoole Sir S. Ramgoolam Mr. S. Bissoondoyal Mr. J. M. Paturau Mr. A. R. Mohamed (c) Use of Air Strip for emergency landing and for refuelling civil planes without disembarkation of passengers.

have in fact agreed to them. SIR S. RAMGOOLAM said that he was hoping to come to London for economic discussions in October. The UK says it does not recognise Mauritius' claim to sovereignty.Britain's Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) insists it has every right to hold onto the islands - one of which, Diego Garcia, is home to a US military airbase. Mauritius, in turn, received four million pounds for the favour. 26.

One of the Chagos Islands - Diego Garcia - is home to a US military base It concluded that, in light of its jurisprudence, there were “no compelling reasons for it to decline to give the opinion requested by the General Assembly”. 25 February 2019. THE SECRETARY OF STATE pointed out that he had to leave almost immediately to convey the decision to his own colleagues and LORD TAYLOR urged the Mauritian Ministers not to risk losing the substantial sum offered and the important assurance of a friendly military presence nearby. Der Chagos-Archipel (deutsch auch Tschagos-Archipel) ist eine Inselgruppe im Indischen Ozean. a year, on the conditions previously explained. "Britain has ignored those calls - so what might any repercussions look like?Sanctions would be slow, incremental and largely institutional - in the sense that Britain is going to find itself squeezed at institutions that it has traditionally seen as very important.Britain no longer has a judge on 14-seat International Court of Justice in The Hague, and it's going to start to see UN maps reflecting the legal fact that the UN sees this islands as belonging to Mauritius.The deadline is not binding, so no sanctions or immediate punishment will follow - but that could change.At the time of the UN resolution, the FCO said the UK did not recognise Mauritius' claim to sovereignty, but would stand by an earlier commitment to hand over control of the islands to Mauritius when they were no longer needed for defence purposes.Between 1968 and 1974, Britain forcibly removed thousands of Chagossians from their homelands and sent them more than 1,000 miles away to Mauritius and the Seychelles, where they faced extreme poverty and discrimination.Britain then invited the US to build a military base on Diego Garcia.US planes have been sent from the base to bomb Afghanistan and Iraq.

Many European states that might have voted for the UK decided to abstain, a result of Brexit fever. Mr. MOHAMED made an energetic protest against repeated postponements of the Secretary of State's proposed meeting with the M.C.A. The Chagossians took up their claims of return, including unacknowledged fishing rights, badgering the UK government repeatedly in their efforts. France progressively claimed and surveyed the Archipelago in the mid-18th century and granted concessions for the establishment of coconut plantations, leading to permanent settlement. 24. The best solution of all might be Independence and detachment by agreement, although he could not of course commit the Colonial Secretary at this point.The meetings culminated in the afternoon of 23 September 1965 (the "Lancaster House Meeting") in a provisional agreement on the part of Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam and his colleagues to agree in principle to the detachment of the Archipelago in exchange for the Secretary of State recommending certain actions by the United Kingdom to the Cabinet. According to Mauritius, the proposal to separate the Chagos Archipelago stemmed from a decision by the United Kingdom in the early 1960s to "accommodate the United States’ desire to use certain islands in the Indian Ocean for defence purposes.