Germany's Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle pledged support Sunday for Libya after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi. "We are standing on the side of the new Libya," he told reporters in the Libyan capital - Tripoli, on the second day of a tour of North Africa that has already taken him to Algeria and which concludes Monday in Tunisia. Westerwelle said the main aspect of cooperation with post-Gaddafi Libya would be economic. He held separate talks with Libyan Prime Minister Abdel Rahim Al-Keib and Foreign Minister Ashour bin Khayyal, according to a report of the German Press Agency "DPA". Later Sunday, Westerwelle continued his tour to Tunisia, where he will meet representatives of the new power-sharing government put in place after democratic elections late last year that were won by "Ennahda" party. He was also due to meet the country's new president Moncef Marzouki.
