Speaker of Parliament Mohamed Nasheed has stated that the Chagos Archipelago does not belong to any specific country as of now, adding that there is no room to say that the Chagos is not part of the Maldives, even though the United Kingdom had administrative power over the chain of islands.

While the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) is hearing a case regarding the disputed territory between the Maldives and Mauritius, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) had previously issued an advisory opinion supporting the decolonization of the Chagos by the British.

Maldives had previously supported the UK while voting for the resolution at the UN, however, its stand has changed and is now supporting Mauritius and its claim for sovereignty over the Chagos Islands.

Payam Akhavan, a member of the Maldives legal team has stated that the Maldives does not stand to lose any territory despite its support for Mauritius regarding the resolution.

Speaker Nasheed also stated that Maldivian navigators have always described Maldives' territory with Chagos included as part of the Maldives. adding that in a letter from the ninth king in 1560, the king describes the seven islands of Chagos as Maldivian islands,.

Nasheed further said most Maldivian maps drawn after 1500 show Chagos as the atoll south of Addu.