By Muvija M and Michael Holden
Britain can conclude a deal with Mauritius on the future of the Chagos Islands on Thursday after a judge at London’s High Court overturned an eleventh-hour injunction which had blocked the agreement being signed earlier.
Lawyers representing a British national born in the Chagos Islands were granted an interim injunction in the early hours of Thursday morning, postponing the formal signing of a treaty that aims to secure the future of the strategically-important U.S.-UK Diego Garcia air base.
But Judge Martin Chamberlain lifted the injunction following a hearing later on Thursday, clearing the way for Britain to sign the multi-billion-dollar deal to cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.
The deal, the details of which were first announced in October, would allow Britain to retain control of the air base on Diego Garcia, the largest island of the archipelago in the Indian Ocean, under a 99-year lease.
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