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=== Foreign relations ===
{{Main|Foreign relations of Niger}}
Niger pursues a moderate foreign policy and maintains friendly relations with the West and the Islamic world as well as non-aligned countries. It belongs to the UN and its main specialized agencies and in 1980–81 served on the [[UN Security Council]]. Niger maintains a special relationship with former colonial power France and has close relations with its West African neighbors.

Niger is a charter member of the [[African Union]] and the [[West African Monetary Union]] and also belongs to the [[Niger Basin Authority]] and [[Lake Chad Basin Commission]], the [[Economic Community of West African States]], the [[Non-Aligned Movement]], the [[Organisation of Islamic Cooperation]] and the [[Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa]] ([[OHADA]]). The westernmost regions of Niger are joined with contiguous regions of Mali and Burkina Faso under the [[Liptako–Gourma Authority]].

The border dispute with Benin, inherited from colonial times and concerning inter alia [[Lété Island]] in the [[Niger River]], was solved by the [[International Court of Justice]] in 2005 to Niger's advantage.