In the present paper, we study the existence of best proximity pairs in ultrametric spaces. We show, under suitable assumptions, that the proximinal pair $(A,B)$ has a best proximity pair. As a consequence we generalize a well known best approximation result and we derive some fixed point theorems. Moreover, we provide examples to illustrate the obtained results.

12 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2104.06748