This is John Bachelor, conversation with my colleague Gregory Coppley, Defense and Foreign Affairs about the Chegoes Archipelago.

Suddenly, Sir Kirstarman, the new leader of Great Britain, he's the Prime

Minister leading an overwhelming labor force in Commons, decides to give away Chagos, to Moricious. These are two island archipelagoes in the Indian Ocean. That's

about all I see they have in common.

Gregory comments on that and also the history of the Chegos passing back and forth between

Portugal and then France and then Britain in the last 200 years.

There are articles in the London paper saying that Chagosians don't want this to happen.

They weren't consulted. The Mauritius is not them. It's quite far away in fact. Why not consider

themselves independent or staying within the Commonwealth? It's all very strange. Here's

the history. There's more to this later in the show. Yeah, absolutely

concocted and by the way, it was a result of conquest by Britain in the

Napoleonic Wars. Ironically one of the great naval victories which the French

Napoleonic Navy won was that battle of 1810 at Grand Bay

just off the north of Mauritius and it's engraved in the Arctic triumph in Paris, but as a result of losing

the Napoleonic wars, they also had to seed Mauritius to the British in the

at the end of the 1812 1815 sort of period.

So essentially, yes, it's, you know, this is a, that's the history, but there is, as you say, no connection between

Mauritius and the Chegos archipelago. In fact, very little relationship between Mauritius and mainland Africa.

Since the population essentially became largely Indian, ethnically Indian,

in the period of the last few hundred years.