, Navy (Armada) (2005)

Military service age and obligation:
18 years of age for voluntary military service (2001)

Manpower available for military service:
NA

Manpower fit for military service:
males age 18-49: NA

Manpower reaching military service age annually:
NA

Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$4.4 million (FY03)

Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
NA

Transnational Issues East Timor

Disputes - international:
UN Mission of Support in East Timor (UNMISET) has maintained about
a thousand peacekeepers in East Timor since 2002; East
Timor-Indonesia Boundary Committee continues to meet, survey, and
delimit the land boundary, but several sections of the boundary
especially around the Oekussi enclave remain unresolved; Indonesia
and East Timor contest the sovereignty of the uninhabited coral
island of Palau Batek/Fatu Sinai, which prevents delimitation of the
northern maritime boundaries; many of 28,000 East Timorese refugees
still residing in Indonesia in 2003 have returned, but many continue
to refuse repatriation; East Timor and Australia continue to meet
but disagree over how to delimit a permanent maritime boundary and
share unexploited potential petroleum resources that fall outside
the Joint Petroleum Development Area covered by the 2002 Timor Sea
Treaty; dispute with Australia also hampers creation of a southern
maritime boundary with Indonesia

Illicit drugs:
NA

This page was last updated on 20 October, 2005

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@Ecuador

Introduction Ecuador

Background:
The "Republic of the Equator" was one of three countries that
emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830 (the others are
Colombia and Venezuela). Between 1904 and 1942, Ecuador lost
territories in a series of conflicts with its neighbors. A border
war with Peru that flared in 1995 was resolved in 1999. Although
Ecuador marked 25 years of civilian governance in 2004, the period
has been marred by political instability. Seven presidents have
governed Ecuador since 1996.

Geography Ecuador

Location:
Western South America, bordering the Pacific Ocean at the Equator,
between Colombia and Peru

Geographic coordinates:
2 00 S, 77 30 W

Map references:
South America

Area:
total: 283,560 sq km
land: 276,840 sq km
water: 6,720 sq km
note: inclu