Military manpower-fit for military service: males: 409,563 (1998 est.)
Military manpower-reaching military age annually: males: 19,553 (1998 est.)
Military expenditures-dollar figure: $3.5 billion (FY95/96)
Military expenditures-percent of GDP: 12.8% (FY95/96)
@Kuwait:Transnational Issues
Disputes-international: in November 1994, Iraq formally accepted the UN-demarcated border with Kuwait which had been spelled out in Security Council Resolutions 687 (1991), 773 (1993), and 883 (1993); this formally ends earlier claims to Kuwait and to Bubiyan and Warbah islands; ownership of Qaruh and Umm al Maradim islands disputed by Saudi Arabia
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KYRGYZSTAN
@Kyrgyzstan:Geography
Location: Central Asia, west of China