German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has expressed his relief at the release of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
"The federal chancellor welcomes the resolution of this case and the fact that Mr Assange is now free again," government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit said in Berlin on Wednesday.
He added: "This also shows that our constant insistence that there is proper jurisdiction and that judgements are also made according to the law in the UK has been justified."
It is important that Assange can now live in freedom and that a way has been found in which he does not have to fear being extradited to the United States, Hebestreit said.
This is a good development for Assange, "after many years in which it has been anything but good for him," Hebestreit emphasized. "The important thing is that he is now free and that he can enjoy this freedom."
The Foreign Office spokesman said it was "good news that Mr Assange is now finally out." He added: "The court proceedings have dragged on for far too long."
The spokesman again pointed out the differences in the understanding of press freedom between Germany and the United States.
Assange has since returned home to Australia as a free man. A US court on the Northern Mariana Island of Saipan - a US foreign territory in the Western Pacific - approved a deal between the Australian and US judiciary in connection with espionage allegations.
In return for a partial guilty plea, Assange was immediately released due to the prison sentence he had already served in the UK.
The US had accused Assange of stealing and publishing secret material from military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan with the whistleblower Chelsea Manning, thereby jeopardizing the lives of US informants.