51.   Vlore has been one of the hot spots of an insurrection in the south of the impoverished Balkan republic over failed investment schemes.

52.   Kyrgyzstan, an impoverished former Soviet republic which shares a border with China, was once considered an island of democracy in the Central Asian region.

53.   Massive desertions have been frequent in the impoverished former Soviet republic over the past year.

54.   Peace talks aimed at securing a definitive settlement for the impoverished central Asian republic have proven largely fruitless.

55.   The five-million strong population of the impoverished Central Asian republic still consists of up to one million ethnic Russians.

56.   The GCC had so far rejected membership requests by Yemen, an impoverished republic contrary to the oil-rich monarchies of the Gulf.