Chilean President Gabriel Boric told Argentina Monday to remove solar panels that were installed on the wrong side of their shared border or Chile itself will do it.
In late April, the Argentine Navy inaugurated a maritime surveillance post on the border with Chile, in the Patagonia region of South America.
But the solar panels, which provide energy to that military unit, were set up on the Chilean side of the frontier.
Chilean Foreign Minister Alberto Van Klaveren has said Argentina acknowledged the mistake and apologized.
Argentina said it cannot move the panels right away but will once weather conditions permit. It is winter now in those southern hemisphere countries.
“Borders are not something that can be ambiguous. It is a basic principle of respect between countries and therefore they must remove those solar panels as soon as possible or we are going to do it,” Boric told reporters during a visit to Paris.
Chile and Argentina share a border of about 5,000 kilometers (more than 3,000 miles).
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