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Finally, following years of negotiations, the Labour administration introduced on Oct. 3 that — after greater than half a century — it could hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, albeit with carve-outs to guard the U.Okay./U.S. airbase on Diego Garcia.
Looking again, Sands sees Britain’s EU departure as a significant contributor. “Brexit was a handmaiden to the 2017 vote on the U.N., and with out the choice to have a vote after which the vote itself, there wouldn’t have been an ICJ ruling,” he says. “So it’s completely logical to say that Brexit contributed so far.”
But Richard Gowan, U.N. director of the International Crisis Group, believes the U.Okay. would have misplaced the vote even when the EU had united behind it.
“The General Assembly is a venue the place non-Western nations have a built-in majority, and finding out the unfinished enterprise of decolonization is a perennial precedence,” he says.
“I believe it is usually true to say that the U.Okay. had not centered very a lot on the General Assembly within the years earlier than 2017, as its focus on the U.N. was the Security Council,” Gowan provides. “After its set-backs in 2017, the U.Okay. mission in New York rebooted its method to the General Assembly, and invested extra in diplomacy there. I believe Brexit might have been an element, nevertheless it was not the one issue.”
Samuel Jarvis, a senior lecturer in worldwide relations at York St John University, who has co-authored a paper on the U.Okay.’s declining affect on the U.N. post-Brexit, additionally believes the matter is not fairly so clear-cut.
