On Monday, the Libyan Embassy in Ukraine raised the red-black-green flag used by supporters of the opposition National Transitional Council.
The opposition’s tricolor flag was raised beside the gates to the embassy at 4 p.m. local time, an embassy staff member told Interfax.
On Monday, the Libyan embassies in a number of countries replaced the green jack of the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya with the three-colored flag used by the opposition, foreign media outlets said.
Meanwhile, the Libyan Embassy in Moscow is not in a rush to acknowledge the opposition’s victory in Tripoli.
The Libyan flag consists of a rectangular field of green. It is the world’s only one-color national flag without any additional details, patterns or inscriptions.
The independent Kingdom of Libya had a red-black-green flag with a white crescent and a star in the middle, but after the 1969 revolution it was replaced by the red-white-black flag.
