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MILAN (MF-Dow Jones)--Italian telecommunications company Wind would consider buying Italian communications operator Tiscali SpA (TIS.MI) if it were for sale, Wind's owner, Egyptian financier Naguib Sawiris, said Tuesday.

Sawiris was speaking to journalists on the sidelines of the Milano Med Forum 2009.

Earlier Tuesday, an interview with Sawiris published in Italian daily Corriere della Sera said that Wind is no longer pursuing a merger with Hutchinson Whampoa Ltd's (0013.HK) Italian mobile phone unit 3 Italia, but it would consider it if 3 Italia decided to seek a tie-up with the company.

Wind's parent company is Weather Investment, which is Sawiris' holding company.

-By Rosario Murgida of MF-Dow Jones and Sofia Celeste, Dow Jones Newswires; +39 06 6976 6923; sofia.celeste@dowjones.com