Maldives tells UK it does not recognise Chagos Islands deal
A ruling by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) in 2023 strengthened Mauritius’s claims to the Chagos Islands. It did so by endorsing an advisory opinion issued by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in 2019. The ICJ dominated that Britain’s 1965 separation of the Chagos Islands from Mauritius was illegal…
