Natasha Niebieskikwiat
08/28/2021 15:32
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 08/28/2021 3:34 PM
Through a document from Foreign Minister Felipe Solá, the Government
forcefully rejected
a decree from President Sebastian Piñera last week that set the limits of a part of the Chilean continental shelf in the south.
This overlaps with that of Argentina.
"The measure attempted by
Chile seeks to appropriate part of the Argentine continental shelf
and an extensive area of the seabed and ocean, a maritime space that is part of the Common Heritage of Humanity in accordance with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea ", he maintains.
"Consequently, the aforementioned
Chilean claim is not acceptable to the Argentine Republic
and raises a situation that will have to be resolved through
dialogue in defense of Argentine rights
; in accordance with the historic brotherhood of our peoples and international law," the note indicates sent to the media this Saturday in the framework of the strong dispute with the neighbors that
is not partly unexpected.
Throughout 2020, there were several political and health short-circuits between the governments of Alberto Fernández and Sebastian Piñera.
Added to these was the fact that in 2020, Chile began to reject the new map of Argentina with its extended continental shelf and made law by Fernández.
Chile refutes the Argentine extension requested since 2009
in various southern Magellan areas.
Piñera's decree of August 23 addresses this issue, among others.
He set the Chilean platform from 200 nautical miles from the Diego Ramírez Islands, south of Cape Horn.
The statement by Foreign Minister Solá points out against this, which begins as follows: "The Argentine Government became aware of a measure from the Government of Chile published yesterday and dated August 23 in the Official Gazette of that country, relating to spaces maritime ".
"This measure aims to project the continental shelf to the east of meridian 67º 16'0, which clearly
does not agree with the Treaty of Peace and Friendship concluded between both countries
in 1984."
And it ensures that the outer limit of the Argentine continental shelf in this area is reflected in National Law 27,557, approved on August 4, 2020 unanimously in both Chambers of the National Congress and promulgated by the Executive Power on August 24, that same year.
"Said law merely collects in an internal norm the
timely presentation made by the Argentine Government
about said area before the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLPC). This presentation is fully in line with the Treaty of Peace and Friendship and
was approved Without questioning
by said Commission for the purpose of establishing a definitive and mandatory maritime boundary in accordance with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
Neither the presentation nor the Commission's decision were objected by Chile
. "
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