The UK is reviewing its woody to manus implicit the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, the defence caput has said.
Wes Streeting confirmed the woody was being looked astatine again aft US President Donald Trump called it "terrible" astatine the UN General Assembly connected Tuesday.
The archetypal statement would spot the UK cede sovereignty of the territory to Mauritius and wage an mean of £101m ($136m) per twelvemonth to lease backmost a associated UK-US subject basal there, prized for its strategical determination successful the Indian Ocean.
In April the deal, agreed nether Sir Keir Starmer, was paused indefinitely due to the fact that Trump pulled his support.
Streeting said "we person to" reappraisal the woody "because the United States doesn't enactment it".
"What President Trump said yesterday wasn't caller but I deliberation it does supply implicit clarity that his presumption connected this Chagos woody arsenic presently drafted is not changing," helium told BBC Breakfast.
"So we person to bash much enactment with our American allies, with President Trump and his administration, to get the woody to a spot wherever we tin enactment it."
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