Chapter III. PLEDGES In this regard, the Argentine Republic is pleased to announce that during 2011, with the ratification of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, it has completed the ratification of all international treaties on human rights negotiated under the auspices of the United Nations. 3. Complementary Protection Mechanisms In addition, the Argentine Republic will strengthen the implementation of those mechanisms that have been adopted to cope with new situations that are not envisaged in the international instruments for refugee protection, including the application of criterion for temporary residence on humanitarian grounds (art. 23, sub-paragraph m, Migration Law No. 25.871) pursuant to the regulations established in the Regulatory Decree of the Migration Act (Decree 616/2010), which envisages the situation of people who, notwithstanding the fact that they are not refugees, have international protection needs; and the criterion of special temporary settlement (art. 24, sub-paragraph h, Law No. 25.871) whose regulations include the situation of those people who “despite not requiring international protection, are temporarily unable to return to their countries of origin due to the prevailing humanitarian conditions or owing to the consequences generated by natural disasters or man-made environmental disasters”, and may take into account non-return advisories issued by UNHCR. Argentina considers that this is an important development that is unprecedented in the region. In this regard, the CONARE will continue consolidating the practice of recommending to the National Direction for Migration cases of people whose applications for refugee status have been denied whenever their situation meets the above-mentioned criteria; as has been done, for example, in cases of unaccompanied children. Likewise, the Argentine Republic pledges to share this public policy with countries in the region with the aim of maintaining the high standards achieved by members of the MERCOSUR. 4. Refugee Resettlement Programme The “Regional Solidarity Resettlement Programme” for Latin America, enshrined in the Mexico Plan of Action, has been a firm commitment assumed by the Argentine Republic with the understanding that it constitutes a durable solution for a number of refugees for whom neither repatriation nor local integration in the first country of asylum is possible. In this regard, in the context of the “Programme of Solidarity Cities and Provinces”, the CONARE will, to the extent possible, endeavor to replicate in other provinces of Argentina the model and the good practices relating to resettlement adopted by the Province of Cordoba, which inter alia grants funding for housing for refugees. 47