{"id":440494,"date":"2011-06-13T15:41:05","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T15:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/13\/germany-recognises-opposition-administration\/"},"modified":"2011-06-13T15:41:05","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T15:41:05","slug":"germany-recognises-opposition-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/13\/germany-recognises-opposition-administration\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany Recognises Opposition Administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"30.7717813051\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.rfi.fr\/africa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/rfi-logo-en.jpg\" alt=\"Radio France Internationale (Paris)\" title=\"Visit Radio France Internationale (Paris)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>13 June 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Germany has recognised the rebel National Transitional Council (NTC) as the &#8220;sole legitimate representative&#8221; of the Libyan people, Berlin&#8217;s Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Westerwelle made the announcement after meeting NTC officials, including its foreign minister Ali al-Essawi.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want a free Libya, in peace and democracy without [Moamer] Kadhafi,&#8221; he said in Benghazi, Libya&#8217;s second city.<\/p>\n<p>Germany becomes the 13th nation to recognise the NTC as &#8220;sole legitimate representative&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>France was the first to do so, followed by Australia, Britain, Gambia, Italy, Jordan, Malta, Qatar, Senegal, Spain, the United Arab Emirates and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Fighting between Kadhafi&#8217;s forces and rebels raged across Libya, with casualties reported in the western town of Zintan and the strategic oil port of Brega in the east.<\/p>\n<p>Battles were also being fought in the Berber mountains south-west of Tripoli, in nearby Yafran, and at Dafnia near Misrata, Libya&#8217;s third city, according to the rebels.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.rfi.fr\/africa\/20110613-germany-recognises-libyas-rebel-national-council\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read or Listen to this story on the RFI website<\/a><\/strong><\/em>  <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>More:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201106130973.html\" title=\"Germany Recognises Opposition Administration\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Germany Recognises Opposition Administration<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 13 June 2011 Germany has recognised the rebel National Transitional Council (NTC) as the &#8220;sole legitimate representative&#8221; of the Libyan people, Berlin&#8217;s Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said on Monday. Westerwelle made the announcement after meeting NTC officials, including its foreign minister Ali al-Essawi. &#8220;We want a free Libya, in peace and democracy without [Moamer] Kadhafi,&#8221; he said in Benghazi, Libya&#8217;s second city<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":440424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-440494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Germany Recognises Opposition Administration - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/13\/germany-recognises-opposition-administration\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Germany Recognises Opposition Administration - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"13 June 2011 Germany has recognised the rebel National Transitional Council (NTC) as the &quot;sole legitimate representative&quot; of the Libyan people, Berlin&#039;s Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said on Monday. 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