Sources: Mauritius

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• Reference work · Independent publication

  British Indian Ocean Territory (Wikipedia) link

  General-reference encyclopedia article, consulted via citation, on the United Kingdom's 8 November 1965 excision of the Chagos Archipelago from the Colony of Mauritius (and of three islands from the Seychelles) to create the British Indian Ocean Territory, negotiated with Mauritian ministers ahead of independence and including UK compensation payments, and the subsequent forced relocation of the Chagossian population between 1968 and 1973 to make way for a US military base on Diego Garcia.

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• Court decision · Intergovernmental organisation

  International Court of Justice, Legal Consequences of the Separation of the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius in 1965, Advisory Opinion (International Court of Justice, 25 February 2019) link

  The ICJ's 25 February 2019 advisory opinion, requested by UN General Assembly resolution 71/292, finding that the 1965 detachment of the Chagos Archipelago was not based on a free and genuine expression of the will of the people concerned and that the decolonisation of Mauritius was not lawfully completed in 1968; the opinion is advisory and this bundle reports the Court's own finding rather than adjudicating current sovereignty independently.

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• Intergovernmental document · Government perspective or primary official source

  Parliament of the United Kingdom, Mauritius Independence Act 1968 (Chapter 8) (29 February 1968) link

  Official text on legislation.gov.uk, the UK's National Archives legislation service. Received Royal Assent 29 February 1968.

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• Intergovernmental document · Intergovernmental organisation

  United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly resolution 2371 (XXII): Admission of Mauritius to membership in the United Nations (United Nations, 24 April 1968) link

  Decides to admit Mauritius to UN membership, adopted at the 1643rd plenary meeting, 24 April 1968.

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• Intergovernmental document · Intergovernmental organisation

  United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly resolution 73/295: Advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the Legal Consequences of the Separation of the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius in 1965 (United Nations, 22 May 2019) link

  General Assembly resolution welcoming the ICJ's 2019 advisory opinion and demanding that the UK withdraw its colonial administration from the Chagos Archipelago within six months, adopted 116-6 with 56 abstentions; this bundle reports the resolution's own terms and vote without independently adjudicating the underlying sovereignty question, which the UK and Mauritius continued to negotiate afterward.

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• Intergovernmental document · Intergovernmental organisation

  United Nations Security Council, Security Council resolution 249 (1968) (United Nations, 18 April 1968) link

  Recommends to the General Assembly the admission of Mauritius, adopted unanimously at the 1414th meeting.

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