Speak Nasheed has stated that Chagos Islands were never a part of Mauritius. 

Speaking Nasheed made the remarks yesterday after oral proceedings in the dispute concerning the delimitation of the maritime boundary between Mauritius and Maldives in the Indian Ocean, Attorney General Ibrahim Riffath revealed that President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih had sent a letter to the Mauritian Prime Minister informing him that the Maldives will vote in favour of Mauritius to recognize Chagos as part of Mauritius.

Nasheed stated that he does not consider the Chagos Islands to be part of Mauritius. He further explained the islanders went to the International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) over a dispute concerning the issue of the maritime boundary between Mauritius and Maldives after failure to act on the joint communiqué of 2011.

According to information made public, on August 22, 2022, the president of the Maldives wrote to the prime minister of Mauritius to inform him that his country would support the UN General Assembly resolution titled "Advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the legal consequences of the separation of the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius in 1965."

The government was not considering agreeing to the Mauritius claim of the outer continental shelf entitlement to the north of the Chagos Archipelago, which overlaps by about 22,000 square kilometres with the entitlement of the Maldives. This was later stated by AGO.