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Chagos Islands: the strategic USAF airport in danger?

In the coming weeks the International Court will be pronounced

In the next weeks the International Court of Justice in The Hague will rule on a case that has been going on since 1966, the year in which the United Kingdom ceded the island Diego Garcia -from the Chagos archipelago- to the United States to allow it to build a strategic military base in full Indian Ocean. The accusation was brought to court by the Republic of Mauritius that does not recognize the...

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Chagos Islands, 09/05/2018 10:45
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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