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The president of the Maldives has written to the UK prime minister asking Britain to reopen sovereignty talks over the Chagos Islands, arguing that the archipelago should not be handed over to Mauritius under the UK's prior agreement. The intervention injects a new complication into the long-running dispute over the Chagos Islands, which had been heading toward a resolution transferring sovereignty to Mauritius while preserving the UK-US military base on Diego Garcia.