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Deal to Shagos Islands, which was stopped at the last minute legal action

Kate Wonal

Reporter

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Diego Garcia, the largest island in the archipelago, was separated from Mauritius together with the rest of the islands in 1965, and now is an American military base

The government was temporarily banned from concluding negotiations on the islands in the last minute of the Supreme Court.

At 02:25 BST Gues, Geese provided “intermediate assistance” by two women who started a case against a foreign office.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is expected to arrive at the Virtual Signing Ceremony with Mauritius’s government on Thursday morning.

The agreement will allow the UK to transfer Mauricia to Kagas, but will allow the UK and continue to use the military base located in the Indian Archipelago for the initial period of 99 years.

The UK government has not yet provided for estimated payments that the British taxpayer will make Mauritius as part of the transaction, but is expected to enter billions.

Responding to a judicial ban, a government press secretary said: “We do not comment on current court cases. This transaction is the right thing to protect the British people and our national security.”

Mauritius Prosecutor General Govin Glover said: “Since the case should be heard today, we will not be appropriate to comment.”

The trial is again considering the case at 10:30 on Thursday.

Legal actions were launched by two women -Khagasia, Bernad, and Bertris Pompe, who would like to return to the live islands.

Both in the current arrangement and in the proposed new bullying, hagas cannot be returned.

Earlier this year, their lawyer Michael Polak said: “The government’s attempt to hand out the Motherland of the Khagasians until it is holding an official consultation with the people’s people, and the continuation of their terrible treatment of the authorities in the past.

“They remain people with the closest connection with the islands, but their needs and wishes are ignored.”

In his early order, the judge said: “The defendant does not bring any convincing or legally mandatory step to conclude his talks regarding the possible transfer of the British territory of the Indian Ocean, also known as the archipelago of something, to a foreign government or to tie himself to the specific conditions of such a transfer.”

“The defendant must support the UK jurisdiction over the British Indian Ocean for further order.”

The order states that the judge gave the ruling “when considering the applicant’s application for temporary assistance made from the courts” and “by reading the responders.”

Representatives of the daily community meet with the foreign minister Stephen Davuti to discuss the sovereignty of the territory.

The meeting is expected to include six representatives from three different haga communities.

“The meeting will be an opportunity to discuss the FCDO Khagas projects and the new contact group,” the e -mail said earlier this week, not giving more information.

The picture shows two cards. One map shows the distance from something to the UK. Another map shows the islands of something against the coast of Africa, India and Southeast Asia.

The archipelago of something was separated from Mauritius in 1965, when Mauritius was still a British colony.

Britain acquired the islands for £ 3 million, but Mauritius claimed that it was illegally forced to distribute the islands to gain independence from Britain.

At the end of the 1960s, Britain invited the United States to build a military base for Diego Garcia and took thousands of people from their homes on the island.

The immigration order issued in 1971 prevented the return of the islanders.

The islets themselves – some in Mauritius and Seychelles, but others who live in Cravle in Sussex do not speak in one voice in the fate of their homeland.

Some of them are determined to return to life in isolated islands, some more focused on their rights and status in the UK, while others claim that the status of the archipelago should not be resolved by foreign ones.

Milen Augustine, a member of the Great Britain community, said she hoped that the transaction would not be signed in modern form, saying that it feels excluded from negotiations between the UK and Mauritius in the islands.

“Like Bernad and Bertris, my dad was born in Diego Garcia. This is my legacy,” she said. “(The court’s decision) is good. We need to have our own self -determination … We need to have our rights.”

EPA Group of people standing near parliament houses. One has a sign that proclaims: "We require being part of the negotiations."Epa

Last year, hagasis living in the UK gathered to protest outside the parliament

In recent years, the UK has been strengthened by international pressure to return Mauritius as the United Nations Supreme Court, as well as the Mauritius General Assembly for sovereignty requirements.

At the end of 2022, the preliminary conservative government launched talks on control over the territory, but did not reach the agreement as long as he lost power in the 2024 election.

The Labor Government claimed that the standing issues of the UK’s rights to preserve the islands are at risk for the future of the US-UK military base.

Last week, Defense Minister John Hill said the government should act “to fight danger”.

However, the proposals were criticized when opposition politicians are concerned about the close connection of Mauritius with China and the amount that the deal would cost.

After the trial intervention, the Conservative Foreign Minister Pryti Patel said: “The transaction to surrender something in the work is bad for our interests and security, bad for British taxpayers and bad for British hagais.”

She said that legal intervention was “humiliation for Keir Starmer and (Foreign Minister) David Lami.”

UK reform leader Nigel Parazha said: “Despite the fact that Kagas -Ailnder won the Supreme Court ruling to prevent the islands from distributing, the government will seek to cancel it.

“Why is Starmer so desperate to give up the islands? There is no legal need, it will cost us approximately £ 52 billion and play China. Why?”

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