THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: France has become the first country to recognise Libyan rebels as the country's legitimate government.Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, met with two representatives of Libyan opposition's Interim Governing Council based in the eastern city of Benghazi, which was taken over by rebels in a deadly uprising against Moammar Gadhafi.
The European Parliament is encouraging EU member states to recognise the opposition government. The council representatives were in Strasbourg, the parliament's base, earlier this week, but EU policy is normally to recognise states, not governments.
Mr Sarkozy's office had said that the humanitarian situation in Libya and the actions of the Interim Governing Council were to top the agenda.
Meanwhile, Germany said it had frozen the assets of the Libyan Central Bank and other state-run agencies in an attempt to cut off funding to Moammar Gadhafi's embattled regime. >>> | Thursday, March 10, 2011
