The European Union's Foreign Policy Chief, Catherine Ashton, says the bloc is ready to help Libya rebuild itself through humanitarian aid. She also says security, economic recovery and democratic reforms are all major areas in which the EU wants involvement.

Catherine Ashton, EU Foreign Policy Chief, said, "The support not just to ensures that the sanctions of course get removed and the assets are unfrozen but to support the economy back into full activity and that also means looking at the return of workers who have left, who have been a core part of that economy. And then of course democracy and the building of civil society and the support through the process of constitutional elections, all of which we will be willing to engage in."