The Government has announced it is giving up sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.
Britain, which has controlled the region since 1814, detached the Chagos islands in 1965 from Mauritius – a former colony that became independent three years later – to create the British Indian Ocean Territory.
The announcement, made in a joint statement by the British and Mauritian Prime Ministers on Thursday, ends decades of often tense negotiations between the two countries over the islands.
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The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) or Chagos Islands (formerly the Oil Islands)
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