evidence: Given the Maldives’ preliminary objections, the Special Chamber thus inquired into the legal status of the Chagos Archipelago, over which the U.K. claims sovereignty as the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT). With reference to previous international legal determinations on the issue (the Chagos arbitral award, the Chagos advisory opinion, and United Nations General Assembly Resolution 73/295), the Special Chamber found that (1) any interests the U.K. may have with respect to the Chagos Archipelago are not "sufficient legal interests" and (2) Mauritius is the "coastal state in respect of the Chagos Archipelago for the purpose of the delimitation of a maritime boundary even before the process of the decolonization of Mauritius is completed." [...] Since October 2020, the U.N. official world map indicates the Chagos Archipelago as Mauritian territory. Despite these international legal determinations and institutional adjustments, the U.K. has continued to express that it has "no doubt" about its sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago, and that it will stand by its "long standing commitment, first made in 1965, to cede sovereignty of the territory to Mauritius when it is no longer required for defence purposes."