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The transfer agreement with Mauritius in its final stage?

(BRUSSELS2) Will the agreement for the transfer of piracy suspects between the European Union and Mauritius go through its final stage? Either way, he's ready. And a final meeting of the group of experts in external relations (Relex) is due to take place next Monday. However, the agreement remains suspended, listed on the 27, with a reservation expressed by the United Kingdom (*), in particular with regard to the amounts paid by the European Union to Mauritius to upgrade its judicial capacities. and prisons. If this reservation is lifted, the text could move quickly to point A (without discussions) at the next Coreper and be adopted. This will be the last step in a negotiation process that has been going on for more than a year. It will allow vessels participating in the EU anti-piracy operation (EUnavfor Atalanta) to be able to transfer some of the suspects arrested in the Indian Ocean to Mauritius.

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(*) For completeness, it should be noted that Mauritius and the United Kingdom are in dispute over the question of the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, in particular the creation of a marine park, which has prompted a complaint from the first against the second before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (see the article in the Express de Maurice).

Nicolas Gros Verheyde

Chief editor of the B2 site. Graduated in European law from the University of Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne and listener to the 65th session of the IHEDN (Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale. Journalist since 1989, founded B2 - Bruxelles2 in 2008. EU/NATO correspondent in Brussels for Sud-Ouest (previously West-France and France-Soir).

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