Ambassador Andrei Kelin's comment on the situation surrounding Chagos Islands I have taken note of today's article in The Daily Telegraph, "#Russi...
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/03/12/russia-pushes-mauritius-claim-to-chagos-islands/
...a pushes Mauritius claim to Chagos Islands", in which our country's consistent and long-standing support for the anti-colonial struggle of peoples for self-determination is presented almost as if it were news. One can understand what lies behind such media coverage of a story unfavourable to #London: for the West, a small atoll from which the local population was forcibly expelled in the 1960s and 1970s has now acquired particular significance amid aggression against #Iran. Let me recall t...
...hat, as far back as 2019, both the UN General Assembly (Resolution 73/295) and the International Court of Justice demanded that the #UK return the archipelago to Mauritius "as rapidly as possible". A specific deadline was set — no more than six months. Yet London ignored it. Last year's agreement between the UK and Mauritius, signed in May 2025, was intended to settle the matter. In practice, however, its provisions effectively disregard the interests of the archipelago's indigenous inhabi...
