The Bundeswehr (Armed Forces of Germany) will relinquish an air transport base in Niger, which must be closed by August 31, according to local news agency report, citing the German Ministry of Defense.

Military personnel will be redeployed back to Germany.

“The draft agreement passed to us by Niger cannot serve as a basis for negotiations on a status agreement, with respect neither to its nature nor to its contents,” the Defense Ministry said, according to report.

The ministry stated that they couldn’t guarantee legal protection for German troops, and there were major differences between the two sides. As a result, discussions about an agreement have stopped, and Germany will no longer work on joint projects or training programs through their Defense and Foreign Ministries.

The Niamey airbase served as the logistics hub for the UN’s MINUSMA peacekeeping mission in neighboring Mali since 2013.