Written Question·Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office·UIN 30551
British Indian Ocean Territory: Sovereignty
Tabled: 10 February 2025
Answered: 6 March 2025
Question
James McMurdock
Independent — South Basildon and East Thurrock
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential implications for its policies of the International Court of Justice's advisory opinion entitled Legal Consequences of
Answer
Stephen DoughtyThe 2019 ICJ Advisory opinion was not the only long-term challenge we faced, and claims that we negotiated this deal solely because of it are simply wrong. Since 2015, 28 international judges and arbitrators have expressed views on the sovereignty of the ...
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