Keir Starmer’s Chagos Islands Deal: A New Chapter in UK Diplomacy
Background of the Chagos Islands Dispute The Chagos Archipelago, a remote collection of islands in the Indian Ocean, has been a flashpoint in international diplomacy for decades. Home to the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), the archipelago was separated from Mauritius in 1965—three years before the island nation gained independence from Britain. The separation was…