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Past events
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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- Address: International Relations and Defence Committee, House of Lords, London SW1A 0PW