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London’s Supreme Court cleared the road to the controversial Britain deal to hand over the sovereignty of the Shaghus Islands to Mauritius, after the judge initially prevented hours before signing it.
The judge Martin Chamberlain said on Thursday that the emergency order granted at 2.25 am “is unloaded from this point on an upward.”
He added that the demand for a judicial order was “unprecedented” and would prevent the government from completing a treaty “in the practice of a foreign treaty” that was entitled to.
Chamberlain’s decision comes after granting Judge Julian Oza A Stay in the deal In the early hours of Thursday in a case brought by two women Shagusian – led by Bertis Pompeii – against the UK Office, the Commonwealth and Development.
The deal includes Britain that paid a batch of millions of pounds to maintain the access to the American Diego Garcia military base in the United States while moving the sovereignty of the Indian Ocean archipelago to Mauritius.
It was It is scheduled to be signed Almost by British Prime Minister Sir Kerr Starmer and officials of the Moreti government on Thursday.
In a hearing in the case on Thursday morning, Philip KC, who behaves with the main claim and speaking remotely from New York, submitted to the court to expand “temporary relief” in the deal. He said that the government did not provide “recognition, recognition and savings” to citizens in the United Kingdom in making decisions.
However, Chamberlain has been criticizing the request during the night since the beginning of the session, saying that “it was not really a suitable way to litigate” and that the main demands should have been submitted urgently.
The “temporary relief” request was submitted after the claimants indicated to the UK government in March that they intend to file a claim, but they struggled to obtain the necessary funding before the government’s decision to sign the treaty, which delays the case.
In response to Chamberlain’s rule, the UK government said that the deal was “vital to protect the British people and our national security.”
The Moretia government did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but before the ruling, one of the government officials said that the ministers wanted to continue the deal.
James Eddie Ki, who is acting in the government, told the court that the prosecutor is looking for something “that no one has heard in legal history” by preventing the government from signing a treaty and that there are “tremendous concerns about the risk of the organized conclusion of the most famous negotiating”, which also threatened national security arrangements in the United Kingdom with the United States.
The long -planned arrangement for British Indian Ocean lands He was severely criticized by the opposition Conservative Party, which accused Starmer of abandoning major strategic assets and taxpayers who are advancing with great payments to keep the arrival.
The US criticism of the arrangement was kept secret during President Donald Trump. The United States and the United Kingdom are scheduled to maintain the Diego Garcia base under a 99 -year rental contract.
Pitti Patel, the UK Foreign Minister, said on Wednesday that the deal will be “a betrayal of our national interest by the Labor Party, which was appropriately timid for the last day before the parliamentary holiday.”
The signing of the deal was delayed until another notice on Thursday after the request late at night. A press conference with UK Defense Minister John Healy suddenly was suddenly canceled.
Outside the court, Jemy Simon, a friend of Pompe and BRITISH and Chagossian National, criticized the decision to allow the deal to move forward. She said: “The government is doing exactly what they did to us 57 years ago … They still do what they want in our lives and our future.”
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