A/HRC/15/43 Argentina [Original: Spanish] [21 January 2010] 7. With regard to support for Human Rights Council resolution 12/22 under its domestic law, the Government of Argentina drew attention to Act 24.871 of 1997. According to the Government, under that Act, foreign legislation that seeks, directly or indirectly, to restrict or impede free trade or the free movement of capital, goods or persons to the detriment of a particular country or group of countries shall not be applicable or entail any legal effects in Argentine territory. 8. The Government also pointed out that according to article 1 of the above-mentioned Act, foreign legislation designed to produce extraterritorial legal effects through the imposition of an economic blockade or limits on investment in a given country, with a view to bringing about a change in the Government of the country or to undermine its right to self-determination, shall also be absolutely inapplicable and devoid of legal effect. Belarus [Original: English] [1 March 2010] 9. The Government stated that Belarus consistently rejected the practice of unilateral coercive measures and considered them as a tool for political coercion of sovereign States, which impeded the realization by their people of the economic, social and cultural rights. 10. The Government noted that unilateral coercive measures contradicted international law, the Charter of the United Nations as well as the norms and principles governing peaceful relations among States. 11. The Government indicated that it was necessary to consider establishing effective mechanisms to monitor the usage of unilateral coercive measures, including their negative impact and consequences for the State concerned. Such monitoring mechanisms could be established in the framework of the Human Rights Council or treaty-based bodies. Burkina Faso [Original: French] [24 March 2010] 12. The Government of Burkina Faso pointed out that, despite the resolutions adopted on this issue by the General Assembly, the Human Rights Council, the Commission on Human Rights and at United Nations conferences held in the 1990s and at their five-year reviews, and contrary to norms of international law and the Charter of the United Nations, unilateral coercive measures continued to be promulgated, implemented and enforced by, inter alia, resorting to war and militarism, with all their negative implications for socialhumanitarian activities and the economic and social development of developing countries. 13. In that context, the Government of Burkina Faso confirmed its support for the resolutions and acts that prohibit those measures, notably General Assembly resolution 61/170, Human Rights Council resolution 6/7, the final document of the fourteenth Summit Conference of Heads of State or Government of the Non-Aligned Movement in Havana, the recommendations of the World Conference on Human Rights held in Vienna in June 1993, and more recently, Human Rights Council resolution 12/22. 3