England’s decision to give up control of the Chagos Islands does mean the British government has changed its position on any other British Overseas Territories, according to U.K. Foreign Secretary David Lammy.
In an address to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, the high level British official said the status of the Falkland Islands, Gibraltar and other British Overseas Territories were “not up for negotiation.”
The British foreign secretary comes after the U.K. government said it would give up its claim over an archipelago of islands in the Indian Ocean, a decision that came after years of diplomatic negotiations after pressure for London to turn over the small parcels of land to Mauritius.