Niger's military-installed authorities, the country's prime minister, Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine, and the West African country's foreign minister, Bakary Yaou Sangare, reached an agreement with mediator Togo's chief diplomat, Robert Dussey, "on the content and timing of the [Niger's] transition" to civilian rule, Dussey said Thursday.
"We are ready to present the plan [...] to the mediating heads of state and the ECOWAS Commission," he said on Niger's national television, referring to the Economic Community of West African States.
The July 26 coup in Niger that deposed Bazoum was denounced by ECOWAS, which cut off financial aid to the country, froze rebels' assets, and imposed a ban on commercial flights to and from the country.
The prime minister of the West African country called the bloc's punitive measures unjust, adding that no other country in the world has experienced such "injustice."
The regional organization also set up a committee, comprising the leaders of Togo, Benin and Sierra Leone, to lead talks with the Nigerien coup leaders. Dussey, along with Sierra Leone's Foreign Minister, Timothy Kabba, will reportedly visit Niger's capital, Niamey, in January.
In late August, Niger's coup leader, General Abdourahamane Tiani, vowed to restore civilian rule in the country within three years. Niger's regional authorities supported the military-led transition.
Following the takeover, the country announced the annulment of all security and military agreements with the former colonizer, France, and demanded the withdrawal of the French troops from its soil.