The UK said that “without” the new agreement signed today, “the long-term, secure operation of the [Diego Garcia] military base would be under threat, with contested sovereignty and legal challenges — ...
They include DiegoGarcia, the largest of the islands and the site of the strategically positioned military base. Among the reasons for the long-running dispute over the archipelago is the ...
The British government made the deal to give back all but one of the Chagos Islands to secure the operation of a U.K.-U.S. naval base at DiegoGarcia, the largest of the islands off the tip of ...