United Nations
A/RES/57/13
General Assembly
Distr.: General
8 January 2003
Fifty-seventh session
Agenda item 167
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/57/L.7)]
57/13. South American zone of peace and cooperation
The General Assembly,
Convinced that peace, security and cooperation should be grounded in
commitments that reinforce mutual trust and promote development and the overall
well-being of peoples to the benefit of all humanity and, in particular, the peoples of
South America,
Bearing in mind the initiatives of various Governments and regional groups in
South America, such as the Andean Agreement on Peace, Security and Cooperation,
contained in the Galapagos Declaration of 18 December 1989; 1 the Declaration of
MERCOSUR, Bolivia and Chile as a Zone of Peace, signed in Ushuaia, Argentina,
in July 1999; and the Lima Commitment and Andean Charter for Peace and
Security, signed on 17 June 2002, 2
Recalling the commitment undertaken in the Brasilia Communiqué issued on
1 September 2000 3 to create a South American zone of peace,
Recognizing that the bases and actions for a project on the creation of a South
American zone of peace and cooperation, formulated at the first meeting of
Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the Andean Community, MERCOSUR and Chile,
held in La Paz on 17 July 2001, constitute an appropriate set of guidelines for
building the zone of peace and cooperation on firm foundations, supported by the
consensus of the whole region and based, among various other measures, on the
fostering of trust, cooperation and ongoing consultation in the areas of security and
defence, coordinated action in the relevant international forums, and transparency
and a gradual limitation of arms purchases under the system established in the InterAmerican Convention on Transparency in Conventional Weapons Acquisitions, 4 the
United Nations Register of Conventional Arms and other arrangements established
in the regional and international conventions related to this important topic,
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1
See CD/1011.
See CD/1678; see also A/C.1/57/4, annex.
3
A/55/375, annex I.
4
See CD/1591.
2
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