en masse from Gaddafi to the rebel-led National Transitional Council (NTC)". On 23 August Foreign Affairs Minister Marty Natalegawa said that he hails the choice made by the people of Libya. On 3 September FM said in a statement that "Indonesia supports the National Transition Council's efforts to roll out a democratic transition in a peaceful manner". On 21 October Helmi Fauzi, one of the members of the Indonesian People's Consultative Assembly urged the government of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to recognise NTC. On 30 September St. Vincent and the Grenadines foreign minister Douglas Slater said that its government decided to put its relations with Libya "on hold" until it will be satisfied that “there is a legitimate, proper established government”. Other UN members who were absent for the NTC vote : On 22 August, the Libyan embassy in Minsk lowered the green flag and raised the tricolour adopted by the NTC. : On 30 August an official of North Korean embassy in Libya answered on the question about recognition that Pyongyang must "wait and see" to recognise NTC. : On 14 June Liberian president Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf announced that "the Government of Colonel Gaddafi has lost the legitimacy to govern Libya", so the Liberian government decided to sever diplomatic relations with Libya by withdrawing its envoy in Tripoli and suspending the activity of the Libyan representation in Monrovia. She also added that they can be resumed when "the people of Libya reach a political settlement which offers the best hope of lasting peace". : At 24 August, the Libyan embassy in Maputo raised the NTC flag over its buildings. At the beginning of September the Libya national basketball team, in Mozambique at the All-Africa Games, and the Libya national football team, in Mozambique for 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualification, were playing under the NTC flag. : On 11 June the opposition party People's Democratic League called on "government of Sierra Leone, led by President Ernest Bai Koroma to state publicly Sierra Leonean peoples solidarity and support for Libya against NATO terrorism" and not to recognise NTC. On 30 August Libyan embassy in Freetown pulled down the green flag of Libya, but not hoisted the new flag, what is reflecting the policy propagated by the host country, which government spokesperson Silvester Swareh said that "this government upholds and stands by any decision that the AU takes". : The Libyan mission