CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -The Court considered that the peoples of non-self-governing territories are entitled to exercise their right to self-determination in relation to their territory as a whole, the integrity of which must be respected by the administering Power.

Detailed explanation-2: -She summarised the content of the Advisory Opinion, whereby the ICJ ruled that the separation of the Chagos islands from the British colony of Mauritius was contrary to the right to self-determination and that the decolonization of Mauritius had thus not been completed in accordance with international law.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mauritius claims the remote archipelago in the Indian Ocean in full but it is administered by Britain, which has a joint military base there with the United States. In 1965, Britain decided to separate the islands from Mauritius, forcing thousands to relocate in Mauritus in order to set up a military base there.