Only one has agreed to resettlement in Cambodia.
"There is no majority in Europe to win when it comes to resettlement or the next phase of [refugee] relocation.
A State Department official had a funny way of saying the same thing: Some of the Uighur detainees have agreed to resettlement in Palau.
The leaked cable says Roberts "asserted that establishing a marine park would, in effect, put paid to resettlement claims of the archipelago's former residents".
In 1831, a year after passage of the federal Indian Removal Act, most of the Choctaws were forced to walk what became known as the Trail of Tears to resettlement in the Oklahoma Territories.
According to a leaked US diplomatic cable, Foreign Office official Colin Roberts "asserted that establishing a marine park would, in effect, put paid to resettlement claims of the archipelago's former residents".
More recently, the UK government attempted to designate the islands as a nature reserve, which, according to a 2010 US state department cable provided by Chelsea Manning to Wikileaks, was intended to scupper Chaggosian claims to resettlement.
A US state department official, speaking on condition of anonymity because talks with other Uighurs were continuing, confirmed "some of the Uighur detainees have agreed to resettlement in Palau" but declined to give details.
The transit centre was built, at a cost to Australia of $137m, as temporary accommodation for refugees as they were 'transitioned' from the high-security asylum seeker detention centre on neighbouring Los Negros island to resettlement elsewhere in PNG.
However, the controversy deepened last December when a leaked WikiLeaks cable revealed that a senior Foreign Office official had told his American counterparts the MPA would, "in effect put paid to resettlement claims of the archipelago's former residents".
According to US officials, Colin Roberts, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's then director of overseas territories, now governor of the Falklands, believed that "establishing a marine park would, in effect, put paid to resettlement claims of the archipelago's former residents".
