These countries urgently need to reduce pressure on their budgets, which are financed from meagre resources.

At the beginning of 2005 our relations with the African continent were, we believe, meagre and inadequate.

I confess being disappointed at the meagre outcome in the summit document, which does not meet our ambitions.

Like others, we were disappointed at the meagre substance on this topic that found its way into the outcome document.

The full financial weight of all these consequences of the war in the Sudan are being borne by our own meagre national resources.

However, we appeal for debt cancellation for all least developed countries in order to enable them to redirect their meagre resources to national development programmes.

Despite everything, our countries, including my own, with their very meagre resources but a good deal of imagination and diversified international assistance, have achieved honourable results.

Standstill is regress and regress produces a vicious circle meagre results at the negotiating table, no implementation, more insecurity, less willingness to talk, no results and so on.

However, even with the financial resources of NEPAD the African countries' collective and individual resources were too meagre to implement those actions and he therefore called for international solidarity in support of Africa's progress.

In that regard, special emphasis must be placed on young people, who often worked unacceptably long hours under informal, intermittent and insecure work arrangements characterized by low productivity, meagre earnings and reduced labour protection.

Coordination visits to the missions of member States provide opportunities to enhance dialogue and to discuss how best to address the needs of members with the meagre resources available, in an effort to attract more financial support.

When they returned to him, they said (to Joseph) O Minister, calamity has befallen us and our people. We have brought but a meagre sum, but give us full measure as alms bestowed. God surely rewards those who give alms.

When they returned to him, they said (to Joseph) O Minister, calamity has befallen us and our people. We have brought but a meagre sum, but give us full measure as alms bestowed. God surely rewards those who give alms.

Then, when they entered into his presence, they said, O emir! Distress has befallen us and our family, and we have brought just a meagre sum. Yet grant us the full measure, and be charitable to us! Indeed Allah rewards the charitable.

Then, when they entered into his presence, they said, O emir! Distress has befallen us and our family, and we have brought just a meagre sum. Yet grant us the full measure, and be charitable to us! Indeed Allah rewards the charitable.

Indeed, the disruption of trade, the deterioration of major roads by humanitarian convoys and all the other costs eat up our meagre resources and are the most common source of political unrest among our own people, who feel that they have been abandoned.

Commenting on his country's MTR, the representative of Algeria expressed the view that the programme was too ambitious , and the needs of the country too great to be met by the meagre resources available, especially in view of the devastating earthquake in 2003.

On that occasion, the Secretary General wondered whether having concluded two multilateral treaties of such scope and importance in 20 years of work by the Conference could be perceived from another angle by some critics as, and I quote the Secretary General, a meagre harvest .

Even the relevance of low incomes, meagre possessions, and other aspects of what are standardly seen as economic poverty relates ultimately to their role in curtailing capabilities (that is, their role in severely restricting the choices people have Poverty is, thus, ultimately a matter of capability deprivation'.

Given that much effort has been devoted to the provision of information since the accident occurred, yet the results have been meagre, efforts will also be made to devise imaginative approaches that will ensure that people both trust and act on the information provided, leaving myths and misconceptions behind.

And when they opened their baggage, they found their money restored to them. They said, Father, what more do we want?! This is our money, restored to us! We will get provisions for our family and take care of our brother, and add another camel load of rations. These are meagre rations.

And when they opened their baggage, they found their money restored to them. They said, Father, what more do we want?! This is our money, restored to us! We will get provisions for our family and take care of our brother, and add another camel load of rations. These are meagre rations.

In conclusion, he commended the capacity building training workshops and seminars offered jointly with other Member States, including one offered in India under the auspices of UNIDO for sub Saharan countries, but urged donors to step up their funding, because inadequate funding obliged candidates to dip into their own meagre resources or risk missing the opportunity altogether.

What has happened to you, O believers, that when you are asked to set out in the cause of God your feet begin to drag? Do you find the life of the world so pleasing that you forget the life to come? Yet the profit of the life of this world is but meagre as compared to the life to come.

What has happened to you, O believers, that when you are asked to set out in the cause of God your feet begin to drag? Do you find the life of the world so pleasing that you forget the life to come? Yet the profit of the life of this world is but meagre as compared to the life to come.

She further observed the economic difficulties in realizing the implementation of an optional protocol, noting that even though there was a possibility of successfully arguing a civil case against the Government for arbitrary arrest in certain countries in the region, payment was problematic even where a right to compensation existed, meagre government resources frequently meant that one could wait several years before receiving compensation for an illegal detention.