South Atlantic Peace and Cooperation Zone

A Declaration on the denuclearization of the South Atlantic region was adopted at a meeting of member states held in Brasília in September 1994. The U.N. General Assembly endorsed the initiative, albeit with opposition from the United States, United Kingdom and France.

The South Atlantic itself is currently not a nuclear-weapon-free zone but all member states are currently signatories of international treaties that prohibit nuclear weapons, namely the African Nuclear Weapons Free Zone Treaty and the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean. 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 those treaties. However, the British Overseas Territories of the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands are covered by these treaties.

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