Intimidation as Foreign Policy - How Mauritius has attempted to criminalise UK

The “determinations” in question, at least according to the Mauritian government, are (a) an 2015 arbitral award under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea; (b) a non-binding 2019 International Court of Justice advisory opinion and (c) a 2021 ruling by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. [...] Grant, and I argue in a separate report for Policy Exchange, the “determinations” in question do not state that Mauritius has sovereignty over the Chagos Islands.1 The 2015 arbitral award under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea specifically declined to rule on the sovereignty over the Chagos Islands. [...] Consider the following scenarios: • A British civil servant based in in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) in London writes a memorandum which asserts, as part of their official duties, that the United Kingdom considers the British Indian Ocean Territory to be under the sovereignty of the United Kingdom; • A British minister makes a statement in Parliament that the British Ind. [...] Moreover, although the law does not specifically target them, it has had a chilling effect on the Chagossian diaspora, many of whose members oppose the transfer of the Chagos to Mauritius due to the country’s long record of mistreatment of Chagossians and its refusal to allow Chagossians to have a say over the future of their homeland. [...] illustration of the fact that, in the matter of the future of the Chagos 8.