Military manpower - availability: males age 15-49: 353,616 (1997 est.)
Military manpower - fit for military service: males : 277,489 (1997 est.)
Military manpower - reaching military age annually: males: 10,396 (1997 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure: $35 million (1995)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 1.5% (1995)
Transnational Issues
Disputes - international: Estonian and Russian negotiators reached a technical border agreement in December 1996, which Estonia is prepared to sign and ratify in January 1997; Estonia had claimed over 2,000 sq km territory in the Narva and Pechory regions in Russia - based on boundary established under the 1920 Peace Treaty of Tartu
Illicit drugs: transshipment point for opiates and cannabis from
Southwest Asia and the Caucasus, and cocaine from Latin America to
Western Europe and Scandinavia
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ETHIOPIA
Introduction