Authorities of the Comoro Islands have denounced the results of the referendum held on Sunday in Mayotte in which 72.5 percent of the voters were in favour of putting the Indian Ocean island under French administration. News reports said the ministry of foreign affairs maintained that Mayotte would remain part of the Comoro Islands, “whatever the results of the referendum would be”. “Mayotte can only belong to the Comoro Islands, in a region endeavouring to build its economy which will no doubt play the role of a catalyst on the socio-economic development of the archipelago,” the government in Moroni said in a statement after the referendum. “The island of Mayotte will fully maintain its rightful place within the new institutional architecture of the Comoro Islands,” added the government.
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