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<p>Queen's Birthday Parties are a celebration of Her Majesty The Queen's Birthday.
They are an opportunity to celebrate the relationships between the UK and other countries.</p><p>Coming
so soon after the unjustified and incendiary remarks made about the UK by the Mauritian
Prime Minister at the United Nations General Assembly, it would not have been appropriate
to have held one this year. A decision to cancel Her Majesty The Queen's Birthday
Party was taken at Ministerial level.</p><p>We have no doubt about our sovereignty
over British Indian Ocean Territory, which has been under continuous British sovereignty
since 1814. We have made a long-standing commitment to cede sovereignty of the territory
to Mauritius when it is no longer required for defence purposes. We stand by that
commitment.</p><p> </p>
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