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South Atlantic Peace and Cooperation Zone

South Atlantic Peace and Cooperation Zone
Flag of the ZPCAS
Organization information
Formation27 October 1986
HeadquartersBrasília, Brazil
Membership24 member states
Official languagesEnglish, Portuguese, Spanish, French
Pro tempore PresidencyAngola
(2007-2009)

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The South Atlantic Peace and Cooperation Zone (abbreviation: ZPCAS; ; ; also called the Zone of Peace and Cooperation of the South Atlantic) was created in 1986 through a UN resolution on Brazil's initiative, with the aim of promoting regional cooperation and the maintenance of peace and security in the region. Particular attention was dedicated to the question of preventing the geographical proliferation of nuclear weapons and of reducing and eventually eliminating the military presence of countries from other regions.

A Declaration on the Denuclearization of the South Atlantic was adopted at a meeting of member states of the zone held at Brasilia in September 1994. The U.N. General Assembly endorsed this but the U.S., U.K., and France were opposed.

All of the states in the Zone are now covered by the African Nuclear Weapons Free Zone Treaty which extends to all African countries' territorial waters or the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean which extends to islands as far east as the 20th meridian west, while the far south Atlantic (part of the Southern Ocean) is denuclearized by the Antarctic Treaty.

However, several Mid-Atlantic Ridge islands, the British overseas territory of Saint Helena and its dependencies Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha, and Norway's Bouvet Island are not covered by any of those three treaties.


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