The UN has overwhelmingly backed a resolution demanding that the UK relinquish control of the Chagos Islands, which hosts a US military base, in a move that leaves the two countries diplomatically isolated on the matter on the world stage.
The UN General Assembly passed a motion by 116 votes to 6, urging the UK to “unconditionally withdraw its colonial administration” from the Chagos archipelago and return control of the islands to Mauritius within six months.
Apart from the UK and the US, only four other countries — Hungary, Israel, Australia and the Maldives — voted against the motion. Germany and France were among the 56 countries that abstained.
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