India, April 14 --  A treaty over ceding sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius has become "impossible to agree at political level" and the corresponding bill will not complete its passage through parliament, a Foreign Office minister has said. Stephen Doughty told the Commons that the agreement with Mauritius was initially negotiated in close coordination with the US, but Donald Trump's position "appears to have changed."

The UK government was forced to shelve its legislation to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius after the US dropped its support for the agreement. As part of the deal, the UK was to cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius and lease the island of Diego Garcia-the site of a joint UK-US military b...