Brazil and Argentina agreed Wednesday to strengthen the South Atlantic Peace and Cooperation Zone (Zopacas) to promote cooperation, scientific exchange, security, and defense in the region.
During the visit to Brasilia, Argentine Secretary for the Malvinas, Antarctica, and the South Atlantic at the Argentine Foreign Ministry, Guillermo Carmona, explained that this is a mechanism established by United Nations resolutions to protect the South Atlantic from nuclear armament and militarization.
“The meeting is dedicated to peace and cooperation in the South Atlantic; a ministerial meeting was convened in November, and there is an extensive agenda that includes issues of defense, marine conservation, fisheries policy, and scientific cooperation,” he said.
He added that his visit to Brazil is part of a broader agenda whose foreign policy focus is on the Malvinas Islands and state policy, and the national cause.
Zopacas was created in 1986 as a transcontinental consultative organization that includes 24 nations on both sides of the Atlantic and is supported by the United Nations Assembly.
“This situation leads us to consider that the Malvinas are not only a national cause of Argentina, but a regional and global cause against the colonialism that the United Kingdom supports in part of our territory,” the diplomat stressed.