Donald Trump ‘Interested’ to return Britain’s Chagos Island deal

US President Donald Trump has indicated that he will be ready to hand over the deal of Prime Minister Sir Kir Stmper to Mauritius of Chagos Islands.

The agreement includes a plan to bring back the strategically important US-UK military base on Diego Garcia at the expense of British taxpayers.

The UK has offered an effective veto on the deal to Trump due to its implications for US security, and the president’s colleagues have criticized the plan.

However, while speaking at the Oval Office with Sir Kir, the US President said, “We are going to discuss something about it very soon, and I feel that it is going to work very well.”

He continued: “They are talking about a very long, powerful lease, a very strong lease, actually about 140 years.

“It’s a long time, and I think we will be willing to go with your country.”

Under the Chagos scheme, the UK is expected to lease Diego Garcia for 99 years, with an option for 40 years of expansion.

However, progress has been delayed to allow the new US administration to see the details of the deal.

Foreign Secretary David Lummi was with ITV’s Peston program suggested that if the President’s support is not received, this agreement could be stopped. “Because we have a shared military and intelligence interest with the United States and of course they are happy with the deal”.

Earlier this month, Mauritius Prime Minister Naveen Ramgulam said that American representatives would be present in a conversation on islands.

The plan to reduce the sovereignty of the archipelago, which is officially known as the British Indian Indian Ocean region, was announced in October 2024, when a deal was signed with former Mauritius leader Praveen Jugat.

However, Jugnath gave up a month later in a parliamentary election, and Ramgulam criticized the agreement that was interacted by his predecessor.

The agreement has been kept uncertain after Trump’s re -election as an US President, several American Republicans argued that it could promote China potential security.

Sir kir is also Questioned whether the money to pay to Mauritius to lease the military base back will come out of the increase in defense spending Announced earlier this week.

Mauritius, a former British colony, has long argued that it was illegally forced to remove the island of Chagos in exchange for its independence.

In recent years, international pressure is increasing to hand over the control of the archipelago after various United Nations bodies, including its apex court and Mahasabha, with claims of Mauritius sovereignty.

The previous orthodox government interacted at its legal status at the end of 2022, but the party attacked the agreement killed by labor.