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NIAMEY (Reuters) – Niger has confirmed a care with Libya's LAP Green Network for a ten-year eld deal in land telecommunications firm Sonitel and its mobile arm, Sahel Com, according to a polity statement.

Under the deal, Green Network -- conception of the individual individual Investment Portfolio (LAP) -- module clear 31 1000000000 CFA francs ($65.86 million) for a 51 proportionality deal in a ten year authorise for the subject firms, which module be fused into one.

The assets comes despite Green Network being impact by United Nations sanctions targeting individual cheater Muammar Gaddafi, with Zambia in March locution it was freezing Green's assets there.

Sonitel was previously controlled by a Chinese-Libyan consortium, Dataport, but the care was scrapped by Niger's polity in 2009, part due to the lack of investment.

A organization spokesman complained that the newborn care would be no meliorate and titled for an international tender for the contract.

The newborn care was prototypal agreed by the country's expeditionary polity in January. The uranium-exporting West individual commonwealth is now headlike by Mahamadou Issoufou, who came to noesis after success an election in March.

"Directives were presented to apply this protocol," according to a polity statement, which was feature on land broadcasting late on Wednesday after a cabinet meeting.

A spokesman for the important telecommunications organization immediately unloved the deal, locution that Green's assets would be no meliorate than the previous one, which brought unitedly China's ZTE and the individual Arab individual Investment Company.

"Whether it is LAAICO or the Green Network, it is the aforementioned abstract - it is Libya," said Adam Amoumoum, spokesman for a assemblage of unions concealment the telecommunications sector.

"As before, they module not respect their promises and Sonitel module not be prefabricated profitable. We call for an international tender (for the contract)," Amoumoum added.

LAP is Libya's flagship continent assets vehicle, which was launched in 2006, and the Green Network operates in a sort of individual countries.

($1=470.7 Cfa Franc)

(Reporting by Abdoulaye Massalatchi; writing by king Lewis; Editing by Richard Valdmanis)

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