France's President Emmanuel Macron last week announced the planned withdrawal of French soldiers in Niger after weeks of protests against their deployment.
France keeps about 1,500 soldiers in its former West African colony as part of an anti-militant deployment in the Sahel.
The new military regime said in a statement read out on national TV late on Monday that the timeframe for the pullout"must be set out in a negotiated framework and by mutual agreement". "Regarding the ambassador, we have no comment to make about the modalities of his return", French Foreign Ministry spokesperson Anne-Claire Legendre said on Tuesday.Macron, who had sought to make a special ally of Niger, said military cooperation was"over" and French troops would withdraw in"the months and weeks to come" with a full pullout"by the end of the year".
The coup against Bazoum was the third such putsch in the region in as many years, following similar actions in Mali and Burkina Faso in 2021 and 2022.Niger's rulers, who have welcomed the announcement by France, said they were waiting for it to be followed up by official actions from the French authorities.
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