{"id":8897,"date":"2019-09-11T15:00:12","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T06:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/11\/mps-make-secretive-visit-to-diego-garcia-and-chagos-islands"},"modified":"2019-09-11T15:00:12","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T06:00:12","slug":"mps-make-secretive-visit-to-diego-garcia-and-chagos-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=8897","title":{"rendered":"MPs make secretive visit to Diego Garcia and Chagos Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign Office-run trip thought to be first formal parliamentary visit to the disputed territory<\/p>\n<p>Three MPs have made a secretive visit to the US military base on Diego Garcia and the Chagos Islands, it has emerged, in what is believed to be the first formal, parliamentary visit to the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT).<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/may\/22\/uk-suffers-crushing-defeat-un-vote-chagos-islands\">the UN told the UK to renounce its claim on the islands<\/a> and allow the original inhabitants, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/feb\/26\/its-heartbreaking-the-chagos-islanders-forced-into-exile\">who were expelled<\/a> to make way for the base, to return.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/11\/mps-make-secretive-visit-to-diego-garcia-and-chagos-islands\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign Office-run trip thought to be first formal parliamentary visit to the disputed territoryThree MPs have made a secretive visit to the US military base on Diego Garcia and the Chagos Islands, it has emerged, in what is believed to be the first fo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,753,755,754,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-chagos-islands","category-mauritius","category-pope-francis","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8898,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8897\/revisions\/8898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}