Comment by jplrssn
7 months ago
The UN General Assembly and various UN courts have ruled that the UK had no sovereignty over the Chagos Islands in the first place.
7 months ago
The UN General Assembly and various UN courts have ruled that the UK had no sovereignty over the Chagos Islands in the first place.
The UN General Assembly is little more than an opinion poll, legally speaking.
Irrelevant.
Maybe to you, but not to the UK government.
The UK has a permanent seat on the UNSC including the ultimate single-member veto and on the sliding scale of fiction to non-fiction, international law is a lot closer to the fictional end. The UK choosing to transfer sovereignty to another country is not in-line with a ruling that says they don’t have sovereignty. They’ve chosen to be done with this controversy.
The UN is relevant how? Anyway, UK did the right thing, though. Now get rid of that US hegemony-supporting base.
The base stays in and the people stays out. It's little more than a symbolic gesture.