Representatives from the Republic of Mauritius and the United Kingdom held further productive discussions in London this week on the future of the Chagos Archipelago. In a joint statement ...

Britain split the islands away from Mauritius, a former British colony, in 1965, three years before Mauritius gained independence, and called the Chagos archipelago the British Indian Ocean Territory.

The UK has asked for "strong protections" for a joint UK-US military base on the Chagos Islands. Britain agreed last year to hand over the archipelago over to Mauritius after a decades-long dispute.