A/HRC/40/38/Add.1 IV. Statistics on standing invitations United Nations Regional Groups of Member States Number of standing invitations extended by States within their regional group Percentage of standing invitations extended within regional groups Percentage of standing invitations extended by regional groups African Group 27 out of 54 States 50.00% 22.69% Asia-Pacific Group 25 out of 53* States 47.17% 21.01% EEG 21 out of 23 States 91.30% 17.65% GRULAC 18 out of 33 States 54.55% 15.13% WEOG 28 out of 30* States 93.33% 23.53% Total 119 out of 193 United Nations Member States 100% *Not counting Kiribati and Turkey in Asia-Pacific group but in WEOG Standing invitations extended in 2018 Botswana 2 May 2018 NB. The State of Palestine, accorded non-Member Observer status on 29 November 2012 by General Assembly resolution 67/19, extended a standing invitation to the special procedures on 4 July 2014. 9