{"id":124059,"date":"2025-05-23T02:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T02:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/124059\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T02:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T02:06:09","slug":"britain-signs-deal-to-transfer-chagos-islands-to-mauritius-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/124059\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain signs deal to transfer Chagos Islands to Mauritius &#8211; World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON &#8212; British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Thursday signed an agreement transferring sovereignty over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.<\/p>\n<p>The deal formally cedes British control of the Chagos Archipelago to the Mauritian government. Under the terms of the agreement, Mauritius will lease the Diego Garcia military base &#8212; located within the archipelago &#8212; back to Britain and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Starmer said the full rationale behind the decision remains &#8220;highly classified.&#8221; He noted that failure to reach a settlement could have led Mauritius to pursue legal action at international courts, where Britain was likely to lose, potentially facing additional penalties.<\/p>\n<p>The signing proceeded after a temporary injunction issued by the British High Court early Thursday was lifted later in the day.<\/p>\n<p>US Secretary of State Marco Rubio welcomed the agreement in a social media post, describing it as &#8220;a historic deal.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON &#8212; British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Thursday signed an agreement transferring sovereignty over the Chagos Islands&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,54314,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-124059","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-mauritius","14":"tag-northern-ireland","15":"tag-scotland","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114554705314133912","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}