Gaddafi calls for creating South Atlantic Alliance similar to NATO.

CARACAS, September 27 (Itar-Tass) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi
called for the creation of an organization that will bring together the
nations of South America and Africa.

Speaking at the second South America-Africa Summit on Saturday he said
that the organization similar to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
(NATO) should be created to provide a real platform to protect the
interests of South American and African nations.
Gaddafi proposed to call this new structure as a South Atlantic Treaty
Organization.



.Bishkek nominates itself as candidate for UN SC non-permanent seat.

UNITED NATIONS, September 27 (Itar-Tass) - Kyrgyzstan supports broader
representation in the Security Council and nominates itself as a candidate
for a non-permanent seat for 2012-2013, Kyrgyz Prime Minister Igor
Chudinov told the 64th session of the UN General Assembly on Saturday.
He stressed that Bishkek was ready to make strong contribution to the
work of the UN's key structure.
Chudinov also called for expanding the list of the UN Security Council'
s permanent members through inclusion of representatives from Asia,
Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean Basin nations.
"Located in the heart of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan was actively
maintaining peace, security and environmental stability in the region and
had been elected to the Human Rights Council in 2009," he said.




.Patriarch Kirill to hold service in Belarus' Polotsk.

POLOTSK, September 27 (Itar-Tass) - Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All
Russia will hold divine service on the Feast of the Exaltation of the
Cross (or Triumph of the Cross ) in the town of Polotsk, in the north of
Belarus.
He will hold this service at the Saviour -Efrosinia Convent dated back
to 12th century.
The patriarch is on his four-day visit to Belarus that will end on
September 28.
From Polotsk Patriarch Kirill will go to Vitebsk, where he will lay
flowers at the memorial cross to remember 100,000 victims of Nazism killed
in the concentration camp.



.Vladivostok marking Tiger Day.

VLADIVOSTOK, September 27 (Itar-Tass) - Vladivostok is marking the
Tiger Day for the tenth year running to raise awareness of conservation of
the Ussuri Taiga and its animal species - Amur tiger and Far-Eastern
leopard.
Traditionally the Tiger Day began from a masked parade - boys and
girls dressed in costumes of Ussuri Taiga animals marched across the city'
s central streets with slogans for environmental protection.
This day is annually marked with the support of the Fenix Foundation,
International Fund For Animal Welfare (IFAW) and the Amur branch of
WWF-Russia.
This day is marked not only in Vladivostok, but also in the zoos of
Russia, the United States and Europe.
In September 2010, the Year of Tiger in the Chinese Zodiac,
Vladivostok will host the high-level 'tiger' summit, which will bring
together 13 prime ministers of the countries, which territory tigers
inhabit.
Delegates will gather to search a solution to the problem of a
shrinking tiger population.
Amur tiger is put on the red list of endangered species of the
International Union for the Conservation of Nature. Ninety-five percent of
Amur tiger population or around 450 individuals inhabit the Primorsky
territory and the south of the Khabarovsk territory. There are only 30-35
individuals of the total population of Far Eastern leopards or Amur
leopards in wild life.



.South America-Africa summit adopts resolution to support Zelaya.


CARACAS, September 27 (Itar-Tass) - The Second South America-Africa
Summit has adopted a resolution in support of President of Honduras Manuel
Zelaya ousted during the June 28 coup.
Delegations from 54 African and 12 South American countries that
gathered for the summit on the Caribbean resort island of Margarita demand
that the de facto government should bring Zelaya back to power. The
document makes reference to similar demands put forward by the UN
resolutions and the Organization of American States.
The summit expressed solidarity with Zelaya, who is in the Brazilian
embassy on which the Honduran authorities impose strict army and police
control.