A/HRC/6/22 page 207 Appendix 1 Unofficial listing of regional groups AFRICAN STATES (53) ASIAN STATES (54) Algeria M2007 Angola M2010 Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Afghanistan Bahrain M2007 Bangladesh M2009 Bhutan Brunei Darussalam LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN STATES (33) Antigua and Barbuda Argentina M2007 Bahamas Barbados Belize Burundi Cameroon M2009 Cape Verde Cambodia China M2009 Cyprus Bolivia M2010 Brazil M2008 Chile Denmark Finland M2007 France M2008 Central African Republic Chad Comoros Congo Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Fiji India M2007-2010 Indonesia M2007-2010 Iran (Islamic Republic of) Iraq Colombia Germany M2009 Albania Armenia Azerbaijan M2009 Belarus Bosnia and Herzegovina M2010 Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic M2007 Estonia Costa Rica Cuba M2009 Dominica Greece Iceland Ireland Georgia Hungary Latvia Dominican Republic Israel Lithuania Ecuador M2007 Italy M2010 Moldova Montenegro Poland M2007 Romania M2008 Russian Federation M2009 Serbia Côte d’Ivoire WESTERN EUROPEAN AND OTHER STATES (29) Andorra Australia Austria Belgium Canada M2009 Democratic Republic of the Congo Djibouti M2008 Egypt M2010 Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Japan M2008 Jordan M2009 Kazakhstan Kiribati El Salvador Grenada Guatemala M2008 Guyana Liechtenstein Luxembourg Malta Monaco Ethiopia Kuwait Haiti Gabon M2008 Gambia Kyrgyzstan Lao People’s Democratic Republic Lebanon Honduras Jamaica Netherlands M2007-2010 New Zealand Norway Mexico M2009 Portugal Malaysia M2009 Maldives Marshall Islands Micronesia (Federated States of) Mongolia Myanmar Nicaragua M2010 Panama Paraguay Peru M2008 San Marino Spain Sweden Switzerland M2009 Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Turkey United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland M2008 United States of America Ghana M2008 Guinea Guinea-Bissau Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Madagascar M2010 Nauru Malawi Mali M2008 Mauritania Mauritius M2009 Nepal Oman Pakistan M2008 Palau Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Suriname Trinidad and Tobago Uruguay M2009 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) EASTERN EUROPEAN STATES (23) Slovakia Slovenia M2010 The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Ukraine M2008