Pope says Chagos treaty ‘delivers message about rights of the weakest’

The Pope backed the deal over the islands (AP)

The Pope has strongly affirmed the rights of the weakest against the ambitions of the powerful during an audience with refugees from Chagos, the contested Indian Ocean archipelago that is home to a strategic US-UK military base.

History’s first American pope insisted on the right of the Chagossian people to return to their homes and hailed a recent UK-Mauritius treaty over the archipelago’s future as symbolically important on the international stage.