South Atlantic Zone of Peace and Cooperation
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South Atlantic Zone of Peace and Cooperation South Atlantic Peace and Cooperation Zone Zona de Paz e Cooperação do Atlântico Sul Zone de Paix et de Coopération de l'Atlantique Sud Zona de Paz y Cooperación del Atlántico Sur (ZPCAZ, ZOPACAS) |
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Brasilia , Brazil
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| founding | October 27, 1986
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| Secretary General | HELuiz Inácio Lula da Silva |
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24
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The South Atlantic Zone of Peace and Cooperation (South Atlantic Peace and Cooperation Zone) ( abbreviation : ZPCAS or ZOPACAS , Spanish Zona de Paz y Cooperación del Atlántico Sur , Portuguese Zona de Paz e Cooperação do Atlântico Sul ; also English Zone of Peace and Cooperation of the South Atlantic ) is an organization and a military alliance, the 1986 41/11 by resolution a / RES / General Assembly of the United Nations at the initiative of Brazil were established with the aim of cooperation and maintaining peace and security in the South Atlantic Promote region.
Particular attention was paid to the task of preventing the geographical spread of nuclear weapons and reducing and ultimately eliminating the military presence of countries from other regions.
A declaration on the denuclearization of the South Atlantic region was adopted at a meeting of the member states in Brasilia in September 1994. The UN General Assembly approved the initiative, against the votes of the United States , the United Kingdom and France .
The South Atlantic is currently a nuclear weapon-free zone . At present, all member states are signatories to international treaties banning nuclear weapons , in particular those who signed the Pelindaba and Tlatelolco treaties . However, some islands in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge , the British overseas territory of Saint Helena and the dependent territories of Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, and Bouvet Island in Norway are not covered by these treaties.
See also
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries
- African Nuclear Weapons Free Zone Treaty , Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Africa-South America Summit
credentials
- ^ BR-AR - Comunicado Conjunto DefesaNet. Retrieved on 2012-04-18
- ↑ Edmund Osmańczyk: Encyclopedia of the United Nations and International Agreements: A to F . Taylor & Francis, 2003, ISBN 978-0-415-93921-8 ( google.com [accessed November 23, 2019]).
- Address to the 6th Ministerial Meeting of the Zone for Peace and Cooperation in the South Atlantic (Dept. of Foreign Affairs of South Africa)
- United Nations General Assembly Resolution A / RES / 41/11 - Zone of Peace and Cooperation of the South Atlantic
- Voting record on this resolution 41/11
- South African-Latin American Maritime Co-operation: Towards a South Atlantic RIM Community? Author: Dr. Greg Mills, Director of the South African Institute for International Affairs, Johannesburg.