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TEHRAN, Nov 23_The African Union has called on Britain to withdraw from the Chagos Islands after a UN deadline for it to do so expired, saying London’s refusal to give up control of the overseas territory was a violation of international law.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club(YJC)_In May, the UN General Assembly voted in favor of a motion condemning Britain’s occupation of the Chagos islands, a remote archipelago in the Indian Ocean that includes the strategic US airbase of Diego Garcia, and demanding that it to be reunified with Mauritius.
The UN vote set a six-month deadline for UK withdrawal which expired on Nov. 22.
Britain separated the Chagos Islands from the rest of its Indian Ocean colony three years before Mauritius was granted independence. The government of Mauritius claims the move violated UN Resolution 1514, passed in 1960, which prevented colonizers from splitting up the colonies before giving them independence.
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