A/HRC/20/39 2009 Activity Date Briefing for the Dominican Republic 19–20 February National 2009 12 Number of participants Location Countries invited Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Dominican Republic, Guatemala and Peru 25 Briefing for Latin 26–27 February Regional American countries 2009 Panama City, Panama Uruguay, Chile, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Ecuador, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Panama, Guatemala and Peru 33 Briefing for Central Asian countries 27–28 April 2009 Regional Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, Belarus, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Germany and Russian Federation 32 Briefing for francophone African countries 20–21 May 2009 Regional Dakar, Senegal Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Mauritania, Senegal, Angola, Burkina Faso and Madagascar 24 Briefing for anglophone African countries 23–24 June 2009 Regional Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Ethiopia, Gambia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Djibouti, Ghana and United Kingdom 23 Briefing for Arab countries 6–7 July 2009 Regional Beirut, Lebanon Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Yemen, Syrian Arab Republic, United Arab Emirates and Germany 40 Briefing for the Democratic Republic of the Congo 22–23 July 2009 National Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo Democratic Republic of the Congo 44 Regional Brussels, Belgium Albania, Andorra, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United States of America, Switzerland and United Kingdom 46 Briefing for 22–23 October European countries 2009 Format