1979 Treaty Of Montevideo
The papal mediation in the Beagle conflict followed the failure of Direct negotiations between Chile and Argentina in 1977–1978, negotiations between Chile and Argentina, when, on 22 December 1978, the Argentinian Military dictatorship, Junta started Operation Soberanía, to invade Cape Horn and islands awarded to Chile by the Beagle Channel Arbitration. Soon after the event, Pope John Paul II offered to mediation, mediate and sent his personal envoy, Cardinal (Catholicism), Cardinal Antonio Samoré, to Buenos Aires. Argentina, in acceptance of the authority of the Pope over the overwhelmingly Catholic Argentine population, called off the military operation and accepted the mediation. On 9 January 1979, Chile and Argentina signed thAct of Montevideoformally requesting mediation by the Vatican and renouncing the use of force. Interests of the parties The mediator acted to defuse the situation by negotiating an agreement that stopped the immediate military crisis. Then the Vati ...
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