DAKAR (Reuters) - Guinea's opposition will not recognise last week's $2.5 billion purchase by Brazilian mining giant of iron ore assets if it wins an election due in June, a prominent Guinean opposition figure told Reuters on Tuesday.
Mamadou Bah Baadikko, president of the Union of Democratic Forces (UDF) in Guinea, also said a 2006 oil production sharing contract signed with U.S.-listed Hyperdynamics Corp was also invalid.
"We consider these accords null and void," Baadikko said in a telephone interview from Paris, arguing that in each case the assets had originally been distributed to the private sector in conditions that were not transparent.
Guinea is due to hold an election on June 27. It is being run by a caretaker government after soldiers who seized control of the West African nation in December 2008 agreed in January this year to hand back power to civilians.
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