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Madagascar: Row Over Scattered Islands Revived As France and Madagascar Hold Talks
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These small uninhabited territories allow Paris to control about half of the Mozambique Canal, thanks to the exclusive maritime economic zones associated with them.
Madagascar: Row Over Scattered Islands Revived As France and Madagascar Hold Talks
French President Emmanuel Macron and Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina will meet in Paris on Monday to discuss the future of the long-disputed Scattered Islands - a chain of uninhabited islets in the Indian Ocean with big geopolitical, ecological and symbolic value.
A 50-year-old territorial dispute is again discussed in Paris on Monday, June 30th. France and Madagascar meet for the second time in the framework of the Joint Commission on the Eparses Islands, six years after a first meeting, to discuss the future of these micro-territories in the Mozambique Canal. Controlled by Paris, the Eparses Islands have long been claimed by Antananarivo.
A Franco-Malgache meeting was held in Paris on 30 June on the subject of the Éparses Islands, under French sovereignty but claimed by the Grande Île. The waters of these uninhabited territories located in the Indian Ocean are a reserve of biodiversity and fisheries resources. For the Malagasy press, Paris practises a facade diplomacy.
JACQUES WITT / AFP The second meeting of the joint Franco-Malgache commission on the status of the Eparses islands, held on Monday 30 June in Paris, concluded with a new observation of the dispute between the two countries. Late in the evening, the Malagasy delegation led by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Rafararavitafika Rasata, took this status quo in a communiqué detailing the claims of the Great Island.
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