MPs and military figures urge Trump to intervene and block Starmer’s Chagos deal
Former Defense Secretary Sir Grant Shapps and former Tor leader Iain Duncan Smith asked him to intervene with Donald Trump to intervene with Donald Trump with other politicians and former senior senior military officers.
Sir Keir Starmer’s government claims to protect the Indian Ocean Diego Garcia case with threats to the operational ability of the United Kingdom and the United States on the influence on defense and security continues serious concerns.
US President Mauritius already gave the agreement with the blessing, but Sir Keir was sent to the White House because he voted to approve the agreement in the House of Starmer.
A malignant debate about the agreement between MPs saw the allegations that the government’s legal case to surrender the islands “collapsed”.
MPs claimed that Britain would be subject to legal challenges through the United Nations Naval Law (Unclos) Convention.
As explained before IndependentThe government used Unclos as the main legal case to argue that Britain and the United States could access their important military base in Diego Garcia.
However, in Article 28 of the Agreement, the UK is protected from UNCLOS because it has been disabled about military activities and military activities, including military activities and non -commercial military activities and non -commercial services of government ships and non -commercial services.
In his letter by British politicians and retired military personnel, he warned that delivering the islands to Mr. Trump would mean that Mauritius could veto the allies to buy nuclear weapons.
They said: “If the UK and the United States are banned from nuclear weapons storage in Diego Garcia, this will have important consequences for our strategic interests, defense capabilities and the effectiveness of our nuclear deterrers.
“Mr. President, you have established your reputation to refuse to leave the strategic ground for those who will weaken the United States. We want you to use your impact on the 1966 US-UK Defense Agreement to oppose this surrender and to exempt any restrictions under the Pelindaba Treaty of Diego Garcia.”
The Labor Party government is trying to force the agreement before Chagosans, who is excluded from negotiations and has limited rights to return to the islands, before a human rights struggle.
It is estimated that the cost of more than 99 years of agreement will be £ 30 billion to the taxpayer.
However, the debate focused on the threat of international decisions that humiliate the ability to use the base of England and the United States.
Defense Secretary John Healey admitted to Unclo’s biggest concern.
“In a few weeks, international decisions will begin to weaken our ability to maintain and control our full operational sovereignty on Diego Garcia.
“In just a few years, we expect our ability to maintain the operation, which is very important to protect people at home, and at the same time to be at some point to protect our powers when they deploy all over the world.”
However, many TORY deputies objected to the legal case that required the agreement.
Shadow Armed Forces Minister Mark Francois said: “During today’s joint debate on Diego Garcia, the government’s legal case collapsed under close examination. Finally, the“ legal threat ”to rely on the Untros Treaty, the“ legal threat ”,“ authorized activities ği we have been clearly selected for disputes in the British.
