The United States of America has warned the Niger junta that if the country’s military authorities do not return to constitutional order, America may be forced to intervene with their military. The US acting Deputy Secretary of State, Victoria Nuland, said this during a teleconference on Tuesday at a special briefing on Niger.
She noted, “… There is still a lot of motion here on many sides with regard to where the governance situation will go. So we will be watching that closely and there are a number of regional meetings coming up and consultations with allies and partners that we need to make.
“We’ll be watching the situation, but we understand our legal responsibilities and I explained those very clearly to the guys (Niger junta) who were responsible for this and that it is not our desire to go there, but they may push us to that point, and we asked them to be prudent in that regard and to hear our offer to try to work with them to solve this diplomatically and return to constitutional order.”
President Joe Biden, according to Nuland, has been in frequent contact with President Tinubu, the Chairman of ECOWAS, as well as many other European allies.
“He’s also kept in touch with Nigerian President Tinubu, who is currently the head of ECOWAS, AU Chairperson Faki, and several European allies with whom we work in Niger, particularly on counterterrorism.
“And all of this has been rooted in our shared values, including a sense of democracy, which is why it was so difficult, and remains difficult, to see the current challenge to the democratic order that began on July 26,” she said.
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