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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
David Maddox and Archie Mitchell

United Nations experts call for Starmer’s Chagos deal to be suspended

Keir Starmer is facing humiliation on the international stage after experts at the United Nations (UN) called for his controversial deal with Mauritius on the Chagos Islands to be suspended.

UN special rapporteurs Nicolas Levrat, KP Ashwini, Bernard Duhaime, and Bina D'Costa have slammed the agreement, which hands back sovereignty of the archipelago to Mauritius and leases back the UK-US military base on Diego Garcia for £101m per year for 99 years, for failing to protect the rights of Chagossians.

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