People who follow these pages will know, if they pay attention (?!), that I think the notion of international law is very largely a chimera. Most of what emerges from the United Nations is not law at all, in the proper sense of that word, but the unenforceable expression of some political or governmental aspiration.
An exception is to be found in agreements, either between governments or corporations, insofar as they are enforceable. They can properly be called “law”.
An agreement which I was unaware of until this morning is the treaty between The United Kingdom and the United States of America number 8737, which is registered at the United Nations. It is the original treaty of 30 December 1966 whereby the UK and the USA agreed to the use of Diego Garcia, the largest of the Chagos Islands, as a joint base. Article 1 provides as follows:
The Territory[1] shall remain under United Kingdom sovereignty
The attempt by Keir Starmer, in conjunction with his friends Richard Hermer[2] and Philippe Sands[3], to give away the Chagos Islands to Mauritius is mind-bogglingly daft for a number of reasons which I have already mentioned in these pages. It is also in flagrant breach of Article 1 of treaty 8737. That treaty has been adjusted a number of times, but never in this respect.
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