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The White House is considering a program to bargain the Chagos Islands from Mauritius, the Telegraph reported connected Sunday (June 7, 2026).
U.S. officials person drawn up a connection to bypass the U.K. and marque their ain woody to instrumentality power of Diego Garcia, the study said.
Reuters could not instantly corroborate the report. The U.K. Foreign Office did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.
The program is among respective options being drafted by the White House, successful a insubstantial aimed astatine providing alternatives to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer ceding sovereignty of the Indian Ocean archipelago to Mauritius, the study said.
“President Trump has been accordant successful his presumption that the United Kingdom should not springiness away the British Indian Ocean Territory, which includes our associated U.S.-U.K. subject facility connected the Diego Garcia atoll,” a U.S. authoritative told Reuters.
“Diego Garcia’s strategical determination successful the Indian Ocean makes it a captious and indispensable subject installation of important value to the nationalist information of the United States,” the authoritative said, adding the U.S. remains successful regular discussions with Britain to sphere the island’s viability arsenic a determination information platform.
Britain’s government successful April enactment connected clasp its woody to cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, location to the U.S.-British Diego Garcia air base, which has been criticised by Mr. Trump.
Mr. Trump said successful February the woody was a “big mistake.”
