{"id":238740,"date":"2019-02-25T18:14:34","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T23:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=238740"},"modified":"2021-09-02T13:44:14","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T17:44:14","slug":"chagos-islands-dispute-uk-obliged-to-end-control-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/hi\/chagos-islands-dispute-uk-obliged-to-end-control-un\/","title":{"rendered":"Chagos Islands dispute: UK obliged to end control \u2013 UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: <\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Colonialism and imperialism still in place.<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The UK should end its control of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean &#8220;as rapidly as possible&#8221;, the UN&#8217;s highest court has said.<\/p>\n<p>Mauritius claims it was forced to give up the islands &#8211; now a British overseas territory &#8211; in 1965 in exchange for independence, which it gained in 1968.<\/p>\n<p>The International Court of Justice said the islands were not lawfully separated from the former colony of Mauritius.<\/p>\n<p>The UK Foreign Office said: &#8220;This is an advisory opinion, not a judgment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It added it would look &#8220;carefully&#8221; at the detail of the opinion, which is not legally binding.<\/p>\n<p>The UK has previously said it will hand the islands back to Mauritius when they are no longer required for defence purposes.<\/p>\n<p>Referencing that, the Foreign Office said: &#8220;The defence facilities on the British Indian Ocean Territory help to protect people here in Britain and around the world from terrorist threats, organised crime and piracy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-47358602?fbclid=IwAR1H_eX8-473mKX4zHuoGLCY7F9UGIaY9fzS2rIuuFfzDOst4LdCC4p0hv0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-47358602?fbclid=IwAR1H_eX8-473mKX4zHuoGLCY7F9UGIaY9fzS2rIuuFfzDOst4LdCC4p0hv0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: Colonialism and imperialism still in place. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":336685,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}