Will UK have to pay more to Mauritius for Chagos deal?

The British government turns out to pay even more than before in Mauricio for the agreement on the Chagos Islands.

In a landmark agreement in October 2024, the United Kingdom and Mauritius announced that the United Kingdom would transfer sovereignty to the Chagos Islands, an organization of around 60 islands in the Indian Ocean, in Mauritius and a 99-year lease for the British. Soldiers of the United Kingdom. Base on Diego García, the largest island of the archipelago.

Maurice has now indicated that the British pass had agreed of lots of millions.

Speaking to Mauritian MPs on Tuesday, Mr Ramgoolam said he had secured a new deal from the UK that was more favourable, according to The Daily Telegraph.

“The last package was negotiated very badly. It turns out that someone who didn’t know inflation existed. [The agreement] will have to be resistant to inflation. What’s the point of getting cash and then having some of it at the end?”says Ramgolam.

British government sources have told the telegraph that the genuine charge of the deal is unknown because no one knows how inflation would look and accumulate the charge.

There are two other key concessions that Mauritius happens to have received from the UK.

First, Ramgoam told parliamentarians that Mauricio would keep the veto to extend the lease beyond years, according to Telegraph.

Previously, it had been reported that the United Kingdom can increase the 40 -year lease contract on its own.

Secondly, The Telegraph had previously reported that the UK would frontload several years of payment in one tranche to Mauritius. The upfront payment worth several years is expected to sweeten the deal for Mauritius.

The agreement of the Chagos Islands is in Limbes because Donald Trump’s American management would oppose him. ‘Strategic error. The anchor in the Chagos Islands and Diego García’s base is considered essential for China’s influence on the Indian Ocean region.

Lady PRI Patel, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, nicknamed the “Epic Faula of Diplomacy” agreement in her criticisms.

“It turns out that Keir Starmer has surely learned nothing, and puts his disgrace with a left-hand quote in our country’s history on our national security and our long-standing appointments with our closest ally,” Patel said, according to the Telegraph.

Previously, Patel had the “economic level” agreement.

Patel said: “At a time when public spending is under wonderful pressure, it is also being registered to spend billions of pounds of taxpayers by renting a place lately under our sovereignty. And to raise insults to injuries, They are doing all this in secret, the labor ministers continue to refuse the main points to Parliament and the British public.

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