LONDON, July 27: The prime minister of Niger has denied claims his nation was involved in trying to sell uranium to Iraq and challenged UK’s Tony Blair to prove otherwise, a Sunday newspaper reported.

“Our conscience is clear. We are innocent,” Hama Hamadou told the Sunday Telegraph in an interview in Niamey, capital of the West African nation.

“If Britain has evidence to support its claim then it has only to produce it for everybody to see,” he added.

The issue has become prominent in the debate over whether Blair misled the British public and parliament over the case for war against ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

Hamadou was scathing in his remarks to the Sunday Telegraph.—Reuters