Military manpower - military age: 18 years of age
Military manpower - availability: males age 15-49: 2,669,505 (2000 est.)
Military manpower - fit for military service: males age 15-49: 2,035,194 (2000 est.)
Military manpower - reaching military age annually: males: 70,674 (2000 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure: $1.2 billion (FY99)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 1.9% (FY99)
@Czech Republic:Transnational Issues
Disputes - international: Liechtenstein claims restitution for 1,600 sq km of land in the Czech Republic confiscated from its royal family in 1918; the Czech Republic insists that restitution does not go back before February 1948, when the communists seized power; individual Sudeten German claims for restitution of property confiscated in connection with their expulsion after World War II; agreement with Slovakia signed 24 November 1998 resolves issues of redistribution of former Czechoslovak federal land - approval by both parliaments is expected in 2000
Illicit drugs: major transshipment point for Southwest Asian heroin and minor transit point for Latin American cocaine to Western Europe; domestic consumption - especially of locally produced synthetic drugs - on the rise
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