How India’s Help On Diego Garcia Will Make British PM Boris Johnson Grateful To Narendra Modi?
January 27, 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic might have restrained British PM Boris Johnson from attending India’s Republic Day celebrations as the chief guest, but when he eventually keeps his promise to visit New Delhi before the 47th G-7 summit in London in June, he will seek PM Modi’s assistance on Diego Garcia, according to diplomatic sources.
In a post- Brexit UK, no government will like to derail the otherwise upward trends with India, which, incidentally happens to be the second-largest investor in that country, notwithstanding the biased advice to the Downing Street by the think tank Chatham House.
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The dispute over the ownership of Diego Garcia and the rest of the Chagos Archipelago involves a complex array of legal, human rights, security and geopolitical issues. The United Kingdom wants to retain the islands it calls the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT). Mauritius wants to see the islands ceded to it. The United States wants to keep its military base. And many of the Chagossian diaspora who were forcibly removed decades ago want to return.
This multi-sided dispute has now been further complicated by arguments over ownership of the territory’s internet domain – “.io”. It seems that digital players may be increasingly caught up in geopolitics.
The last update to the travel corridor list took place on Saturday, January 16.
This saw Aruba, Bonaire/St Eustatius/Saba and Qatar removed from the quarantine list.
Shapps tweeted on Friday: Travel Corridors assess public health risk from the original SARS-COV-2, but it’s impossible for the Joint Biosecurity Centre to provide live scientific updates to predict which countries or regions will now originate new variants. Travel Corridors are therefore suspended for now. There will be more enforcement checks & fewer exemptions. International arrivals will need to have a negative COVID-19 test & self-isolate for 10 days or Test to Release after five. This action will slow the spread of new variants whilst millions receive their vaccinations.