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ovi Sad; plan to replace by summer of 2005 (2004) Pipelines: gas 3,177 km; oil 393 km (2004) Ports and harbors: Bar, Belgrade, Kotor, Novi Sad, Pancevo, Tivat, Zelenika Airports: 45 (2003 est.) Airports - with paved runways: total: 19 over 3,047 m: 2 2,438 to 3,047 m: 5 914 to 1,523 m: 2 under 914 m: 4 (2004 est.) 1,524 to 2,437 m: 6 Airports - with unpaved runways: total: 25 1,524 to 2,437 m: 2 914 to 1,523 m: 10 under 914 m: 13 (2004 est.) Heliports: 4 (2003 est.) Military Serbia and Montenegro Military branches: Army (VJ) (including ground forces with border troops, naval forces, air and air defense forces) Military manpower - military age and obligation: 19 years of age (nine months compulsory service) (2004) Military manpower - availability: males age 15-49: 2,718,234 (2004 est.) Military manpower - fit for military service: males age 15-49: 2,184,937 (2004 est.) Military manpower - reaching military age annually: males: 81,245 (2004 est.) Military expenditures - dollar figure: $654 million (2002) Military expenditures - percent of GDP: NA Transnational Issues Serbia and Montenegro Disputes - international: the future status of Kosovo remains an unresolved issue in South Central Europe with Kosovo Albanians overwhelmingly supporting and Serbian officials opposing Kosovo independence; the international community has agreed to begin a process to determine final status only after significant progress has been made in solidifying multi-ethnic democracy in Kosovo as outlined in the policy of "standards before status"; the Contact group (including the US, UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Russia) will review progress on the UNMIK standard around mid-2005; ethnic Albanians in Kosovo resist demarcation of the F.Y.R.O.M. boundary in accordance with the 2000 delimitation treaty, which transfers on net a small amount of land to F.Y.R.O.M.; Serbia and Montenegro have delimited about half of the boundary with Bosnia and Herzegovina, but sections along the Drina River remain in dispute Refugees and internally displaced persons: refugees (country of origin): 99,170 (Bosnia), 188,656 (Croatia) IDPs: 225,000 (mostly ethnic Serbs and Roma who fled Kosovo in 1999) (2004) Illicit drugs: transshipment point for Southwest Asian heroin moving to Western Europe on the Balkan route; economy vulner
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