The Deputy Head of the Presidential Council, Mossa Al-Koni, stressed the need to preserve the safety and security of Niger and its people, and to restore its constitutional legitimacy without pushing the situation there into an armed conflict that could lead to a human tragedy.

This came in a phone call on Tuesday evening with the President of Chad, Mahamat Idriss Déby, about the developments taking place in Niger, the Presidential Council said on Facebook on Wednesday, as Déby welcomed the visions that Al-Koni reviewed with the Special Envoy of the President of Nigeria during their meeting in Tripoli last week.

He expressed his readiness to take practical steps in Niger based on the assumption of mediation efforts by Niger’s neighbors that are not members of the Economic Community of West African States “ECOWAS” (Libya, Chad and Algeria), appreciating Libya’s commitment to the issues of the region and Africa, and its willingness to make efforts based on the collaboration of neighboring states in order to reach a solution to the crisis in Niger.

The two sides agreed to continue communication and take urgent steps ti activate mediation by Niger’s neighboring states outside ECOWAS immediately. ECOWAS members, in the meantime, had been mobilizing their forces for a possible military intervention in Niger to restore constitutional legitimacy despite the reservations of the neighboring countries: Libya, Algeria and Chad.