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Chagos Islands treaty is now ‘impossible to agree at political level’, UK minister says
A treaty over ceding sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius has become “impossible to agree at political level” and the corresponding bill will not complete its passage through parliament, a Foreign Office minister has said. ” The setback in the UK’s push to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, is a sign of the worsening US-UK relations after Trump’s heavy criticism of Keir Starmer over his stance on the Iran war.
