David Victoire
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Chagossian natives-born and descendants lives and voices matter. THE RIGHT TO EXIST AND BE HEARD
#UNGA adopts the resolution "The Rights of Indigenous Peoples" (A/78/477). It includes, among others: @UN_PGA to convene an event to commemorate the 10th Anniversary of the WCIP; suggests that #CSW to consider #IndigenousWomen as priority theme in future sessions.
EXC: Britain will drop plans to hand the Chagos Islands back to Mauritius under a new strategy being drawn up by Grant Shapps. Shapps is alarmed by Foreign Office plans to negotiate a “Cyprus-style” deal, while the US concerned about its airbase there. telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
It was the UK Govt which insisted that the Chagossians were ordinary Mauritians for decades and only granted BOT citizenship status after sustained legal challenges. But now that it is a a useful distinction for UK security policy, sure, talk it up. Lavrov-league sophistry:
That memorable day at the UN when the Mauritian Government representative told a group of Chagossians they had no right to declare themselves indigenous, their statements are irrelevant, they have no right of self-determination and they would be settling Mauritians on Chagos.
👀 The Foreign Office still refuses to recognise the Chagossians as “inhabitants” of the Chagos Islands 50 years after forcibly removing them. #DUKparliament
The Falkland Islands are British. Islanders have the right to decide their own future - they have chosen to remain a self-governing UK Overseas Territory.
