British defeat in a case similar to Malvinas …

The United Nations General Assembly has demanded that the United Kingdom withdraw within six months of the Chagos Archipelago
, located in the Indian Ocean and home to a major military base rented by the United States. The text is not binding but is of great political value and calls on London to "withdraw its colonial administration" from the archipelago within six months, in accordance with the decision of the International Court of Justice.

The decision was adopted at the General Assembly by 116 votes, including Argentina, and six votes against, the United States and Britain being at the head of this group. 56 others abstained among the 193 members.

The archipelago of the Indian Ocean has been at the center of the controversy for decades because of the UK's decision to separate it from Mauritius in 1965 and to establish a common base with the United States on Diego Garcia, the largest of the islands.

On the United Nations podium, the United Kingdom argued that the dispute was a bilateral affair and its organizational ambbadador, Karen Pierce, defended the "vital role" of Diego Garcia's military base. "in maintaining the security of allies and friends of the region, including Mauricio." The United States, which used the base to send bombers to Afghanistan and Iraq or as a center of interrogation of the CIA after the attacks of 2001, renewed the lease agreement with the UK in 2016 until 2036.

Asked about the possible implications of this decision for Gibraltar and the Malvinas Islands, Pierce said that he was not expecting any change of position from Spain and Argentina , two countries with which he recalled that London had good relations. The Spanish and Argentinean delegations voted Wednesday in favor of London's withdrawal from Chagos.

The resolution of the United Nations General Assembly supports an opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which determined last February that the process of decolonization of the Chagos was not completed in accordance with international law and that, therefore, the archipelago is an integral part of Mauritius.

The United Kingdom felt that the General Assembly resolution could set a dangerous precedent, since the Chagos resolution is in its view a "bilateral" dispute in which the ICJ should not enter without agreement of both parties.

When the ICJ rendered its decision in February, the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs considered that this resolution was "relevant to the question of the Malvinas Islands, because it was a situation of territorial dismemberment, and referred to fundamental principles in the claim on our islands ".

"In the Chagos Archipelago, as in the Malvinas archipelago, there is territorial dismemberment in which the population on the islands has been displaced against their will, on the Argentine continent, in 1833, "Chancellor Jorge Faurie said.