Military manpower - availability: males age 15-49: 1,156,705 (2000 est.)
Military manpower - fit for military service: males age 15-49: 913,896 (2000 est.)
Military manpower - reaching military age annually: males: 40,239 (2000 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure: $6 million (FY99)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 1% (FY99)
@Moldova:Transnational Issues
Disputes - international: separatist Transnistria region, comprising the area between the Nistru (Dniester) River and Ukraine, has its own de facto government, dominated by Moldovan Slavs
Illicit drugs: limited cultivation of opium poppy and cannabis, mostly for CIS consumption; transshipment point for illicit drugs from Southwest Asia via Central Asia to Russia, Western Europe and possibly the US
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