World leaders have used the death of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to urge the National Transitional Council to carry through its promise to reform the country.
Many are hailing the end to Colonel Gaddafi's 42 years in power as an historic event for the north African country.
The 69-year-old was killed on Thursday after being captured by National Transitional Council fighters in his home town of Sirte.
The council says it will make an announcement on Saturday declaring Libya's complete liberation, allowing them to begin pushing through democratic reforms that will lead to elections, to be held most likely next year.
Interim Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril told a news conference in Tripoli on Friday that it was time to launch a new unified Libya.
"We confirm that all the evils, plus Gaddafi, have vanished from this beloved country. I think it's for the Libyans to realise that it's time to start a new Libya, a united Libya, one people, one future."
Mr Jibril called on Algeria to hand over members of Gaddafi's family who fled there in August this year. Two of Gaddafi's sons, his daughter and his wife are in Algeria.
NATO commanders will meet in Brussels on Friday to discuss ending the alliance's seven-month bombing campaign. It has been enforcing a United Nations resolution to defend Libyans from pro-Gaddafi forces.
Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen says now that Gaddafi's rule had finally finished, an end to NATO's involvement in Libya was drawing to a close.
Challenges ahead
British Prime Minister David Cameron, who had taken a leading role in NATO's intervention in Libya during the uprising, paid tribute to the bravery of the Libyan people who worked to liberate the country.
Mr Cameron said it was a day to remember all of Gaddafi's victims, including those who died in the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am jet over the Scottish town of Lockerbie.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called Gaddafi's death an "historic" moment, but warned that the road ahead for Libya and its people will be difficult and full of challenges.
"Combatants on all sides must lay down their arms and come together in peace. This is a time for rebuilding and healing."
French Prime Minister Alain Juppe said there can now be an era of democracy and reconstruction in Libya, while Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said France as part of NATO was proud to have helped bring freedom to the Libya.
European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso hailed the ending of an era of despotism and called on the new government to pursue a broad based reconciliation process.
United States President Barack Obama said the people of Libya now have a great responsibility to build an inclusive, tolerant and democratic country that stands as the ultimate rebuke to Gaddafi's dictatorship.
"This marks the end of a long and painful chapter for the people of Libya who now have the opportunity to determine their own destiny in a new and democratic Libya. The rule of an iron fist inevitably comes to an end."
Mr Obama said he believed the NATO mission in Libya would end soon.
