The Government of Chile announced that next January it will present its work on the continental shelf west of the Antarctic Peninsula to the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf , an initiative claimed by Argentina on the grounds that the neighboring country "intends to appropriate it." of a certain extension that both countries delimit as their own.

This was announced by Chilean Foreign Minister Andrés Allamand , who added that Argentina “is fully informed of the presentation we have made known” about the so-called “crescent” of more than 5,000 km2 that both nations include in their platforms. The controversy has its origin in the different interpretation of the Antarctic Treaty of 1959 , and would also contradict, according to Argentina, the Binational Treaty of Peace and Friendship of 1984. Basically everything arises when the phrase "Exclusive Economic Zone" is added to the definition of "Exclusive Economic Zone" . outer limit of 200 nautical miles of the Continental Shelf .