Mauritian Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam said the agreement completed "the total process of decolonisation".

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Starmer claimed that Britain would have been liable to international legal challenge over its control of the Chagos had it not signed the treaty with Mauritius, putting the operation of the base in j...