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Implications of the transfer of sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago

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Wednesday 25 June 2025
10:30am Private
Private meeting 25 June 2025
Room 2A, Palace of Westminster
Tuesday 17 June 2025
4:00pm Public
Oral evidence session 17 June 2025
Agreement on the Chagos Archipelago; Implications of the transfer of sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago - Oral evidence
4:00pm
  • Sir Christopher Greenwood GBE, CMG, KC (Judge of the Iran/US Claims Tribunal, former judge at International Court of Justice)
5:00pm
  • Stephen Doughty MP (Minister of State at Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office)
  • Paul Mckell (Legal Director and Director Ocean Policy at Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)
Room 4A, Palace of Westminster
Wednesday 11 June 2025
10:00am Public
12:15pm Private
Implications of the transfer of sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago - Oral evidence 11 June 2025
10:00am
  • Professor Philippe Sands KC (Professor of the Public Understanding of Law at University College, London)
  • Professor Richard Ekins KC (Hon) (Head of Policy Exchange's Judicial Power Project and Professor of Law and Constitutional Government at St John's College, University of Oxford)
10:45am
  • Darshana Baruah (Shangri-La Dialogue Senior Fellow for Indo-Pacific Defence and Strategy at IISS–Asia)
  • Cleo Paskal (Non-Resident Senior Fellow for the Indo-Pacific at The Foundation for Defense of Democracies)
  • Dr Bryan Wilson (Scientific Advisor, Chagos Conservation Trust and Research Fellow in Biology at University of Oxford)
11:30am
  • Professor Alessio Patalano (Professor of War & Strategy in East Asia at the Department of War Studies and Co-Director of the Centre for Grand Strategy at King's College, London)
  • Dr Thomas Withington (Associate Fellow and expert in electronic warfare and air defence at Royal United Services Institute)
  • Dr Zack Cooper (Senior Fellow, US strategy in Asia at American Enterprise Institute)
Room 2, Palace of Westminster

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