Acting Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland met with the some of the leaders of the military junta in Niger Monday she told reporters on a call . She met with Gen. Moussa Salaou Barmou the selfproclaimed chief of defense and three colonels supporting him for more than two hours for extremely frank and at times quite difficult conversations she said . The request to see detained President Mohamed Bazoum was denied . She also was not able to see the self-proclaimed leader General Abdourahmane Tiani so we were left to have to depend on Mr. Barmu to make clear again what is at stake . We gave them a number of options to keep talking and we hope they take us up on that. I hope they will keep the door open to diplomacy. We made that proposal Nulander said. We hope they took us up to the proposal to keep that proposal to see President BazouM was denied. She also did not see General Abdurahmani Tiani. She said she was not allowed to see him again. She was also not permitted to meet the self proclaimed leader General Abourahmene TianI Tiani, who is not a member of the junta’s self-declared chief of Defense Force. He was not an American. He said he was an American citizen of the Junta. He has not been a US citizen of Niger. He had not been an American of the United Nations. He is not an international citizen of North Africa. He’ll be an American’ve been a citizen of South Africa’d been a criminal of the U.S. citizen of Africa.’t be a criminal. He
Acting US deputy secretary of state meets with military junta leader in Niger . Acting US
