UK offered us vessel, we said we preferred to have one from India: Mauritius PM
Mauritius PM Navinchandra Ramgoolam on Thursday revealed that after the UK handed over the sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago, including Diego Garcia, to Mauritius, a vessel was offered by the British government to hoist its national flag there but Mauritius declined. "We said we preferred to have one from India because symbolically it would be better," he added.