British sovereign territory has just been stolen from under Andy Burnham’s nose. The United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf this week approved a submission filed by Mauritius in July 2024 extending its claim to the sea around Chagos – in other words, British Indian Ocean Territory. The UK Government has done nothing about it…
In a social media post yesterday former Mauritian PM Pravind Jugnauth said Mauritius could extend itself by 145,000 square kilometres. The UN has apparently approved this…
He described the move as “a major turning point… a source of pride for our country“. It places the sea around Chagos – which is governed by the UK – into Mauritius’s Exclusive Economic Zone, giving Port Louis fishing rights and disrupting the security around the sensitive UK-US base on Diego Garcia. What has the FCDO got to say about this?
