United Nations, May 23 -- The 193 United Nations member states have voted overwhelmingly to demand the UK hand over control of the Chagos islands to Mauritius "as soon as possible".
A total of 116 countries on Wednesday voted in favour of a non-binding resolution presented by African countries that urged Britain to "withdraw its colonial administration" from the Chagos Islands within six months.
Only six countries, including Britain and the United States, voted against the measure while 56 others abstained, including Canada, France and Germany.
The Indian Ocean archipelago has been at the centre of a decades-long dispute over Britain's decision to separate it from Mauritius in 1965 and set up a joint military base with the US on Diego ...