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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
London, March 2 (Xinhua) — US President Donald Trump said he was "very disappointed" in British Prime Minister Keir Starmer for previously preventing the United States from using its military base on Diego Garcia to launch strikes against Iran, British media reported on Monday.
According to D. Trump, the UK's refusal to provide the base for use by American troops is incomparable to anything that "has happened between our countries before."
In a statement made overnight between Sunday and Monday, Starmer nevertheless approved the US request to use the base for "special and limited defensive purposes." However, Trump noted that it "took too long" for the British prime minister to change his mind.
The Chagos Archipelago is home to a key US and British military base. In 1965, Britain withdrew the archipelago from Mauritius, then a British colony, and the following year leased Diego Garcia, the archipelago's largest island, to the US for use as a joint military base.
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