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Implications of the transfer of sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago

Inquiry by the International Relations and Defence Committee and International Agreements Committee, 4 June 2025 to 9 November 2025. Its page on the Parliament website.

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Evidence sessions

  • 11 June 2025: Professor Alessio Patalano, King's College, London; Dr Thomas Withington, Royal United Services Institute; Dr Zack Cooper, American Enterprise Institute
  • 11 June 2025: Darshana Baruah, IISS–Asia; Cleo Paskal, The Foundation for Defense of Democracies; Dr Bryan Wilson, University of Oxford
  • 11 June 2025: Professor Philippe Sands KC, University College, London; Professor Richard Ekins KC (Hon), St John's College, University of Oxford
  • 17 June 2025: Stephen Doughty, Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office; Paul Mckell, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
  • 17 June 2025: witnesses not listed