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In that sense, what assessment have the Government made of the potential for their policy to have the unintended consequence that, rather than helping to cause the Chagossian civic identity to melt away, it may serve as a rallying call to the Chagossian people? Is it not likely that in these circumstances they will seek to form another basis for their civic identity through the pursuit of some form of international personality at the UN level? Is it not likely that they will then challenge the Mauritian claim to the islands, simply exchanging one legal uncertainty for the Americans for another?