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Chagos dispute: Britain dismisses UN court verdict as ‘advisory’... but promotes court’s power to other countries
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BRITAIN has spent hundreds of thousands of pounds encouraging foreign countries to settle territorial disputes at the UN’s top court, despite rubbishing the authority of its judges this week, the Morning Star has found.
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled against Britain’s claim to the Chagos Islands yesterday, and said the Indian Ocean atoll belonged to Mauritius.
The ICJ’s president, Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf, described Britain’s occupation of Chagos as “an unlawful act.”
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