lynchings, being perpetrated against black people in Tawergha, Tripoli, and other places in Libya. On 20 September 2011, the African Union officially recognised the National Transitional Council as the legitimate representative of Libya. The NTC asked to take up Libya's seat at the United Nations. The UN was also a member of the Libya Contact Group. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the UN's nominal leader, said on 1 September that the UN would work with "Libyan authority" to help Libya transition toward democracy. Ban also backed a proposed United Nations Security Council resolution to codify the international body's role in supporting Libyan democracy and stability. Although the NTC welcomed United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973, which authorised the NATO-led bombing of Libyan military targets, it has rejected proposals for a United Nations peacekeeping contingent in postwar Libya, saying it wants no foreign troops deployed on Libyan soil. The United Nations General Assembly, with 114 member states in favor to 17 opposed, voted on 16 September 2011 to recognise the NTC as holding Libya's seat at the United Nations. NTC appointed representatives during the civil war The National Transitional Council had opened representative missions abroad during the civil war. Several countries had recognised the council as the sole "governing authority" in Libya and some of these countries invited the council to appoint diplomatic envoys and to take over Libyan embassies in their capitals. A number of embassies and diplomatic offices in other countries have declared allegiance to the council unilaterally, but it is unclear whether they are in communication with it. Representative missions of the NTC during the civil war: Sofia – Isse Rabii Anshour (ambassador) Ottawa – Abubaker Karmos (interim chargé d'affaires) Copenhagen – Ibrahim Grada (representative of NTC in Denmark) Brussels – Mohamed Farhat (ambassador) Paris – Mansour Seif Al-Nasr (special envoy) Rome – Hafed Gaddur (ambassador) Panama – Nagi Ahmed Ksuda (interim chargé d'affaires) Seoul – Otman S. Saad AHBARA (ambassador) Bern – Sliman Bouchuiguir (ambassador) Abu Dhabi – Dr Aref Ali Nayed (ambassador) London – Mahmud al-Naku (chargé d'affaires) Washington, D.C. – Ali Aujali (ambassador) New York City – Abdel Rahman Shalgham (special representative) See also List of Ministers of foreign affairs of Libya List of diplomatic missions in Libya List of diplomatic missions of Libya Libyan Civil War 2011 military intervention in Libya Arab Spring Foreign relations of Libya under Gaddafi International reactions to the 2011 Libyan civil