nuing civil disorder in Colombia has created a serious refugee
crisis in neighboring states, especially Ecuador

Comoros
claims French-administered Mayotte

Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Democratic Republic of the Congo
is in the grip of a civil war, tribal conflict, and rebel gang
fighting that has drawn in neighboring states of Burundi, Rwanda and
Uganda; in the Great Lakes region and Sudan, heads of the Great
Lakes states and UN pledge to end conflict, but unchecked localized
violence continues unabated; the location of the boundary in the
broad Congo River with the Republic of the Congo is indefinite
except in the Pool Malebo/Stanley Pool area

Congo, Republic of the
the location of the boundary in the broad
Congo River with the Democratic Republic of the Congo is indefinite
except in the Pool Malebo/Stanley Pool area

Cook Islands
none

Coral Sea Islands
none

Costa Rica
legal dispute over navigational rights of Rio San Juan on
the border with Nicaragua remains unsolved

Cote d'Ivoire
continuing rebel fighting extends to neighboring
states and has kept out foreign workers from nearby countries; the
Ivorian Government accuses Burkina Faso and Liberia of supporting
Ivorian rebels

Croatia
discussions continue with Bosnia and Herzegovina over
disputed territory around Kostajnica on the Una River and villages
at the base of Mount Pljesevica; the Croatia-Slovenia land and
maritime boundary agreement, which would have ceded most of Pirin
Bay and maritime access to Slovenia and several villages to Croatia,
remains controversial, has not been ratified, and has been
complicated by Croatia's declaration of an ecological-fisheries zone
in the Adriatic Sea

Cuba
US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay is leased to US and only mutual
agreement or US abandonment of the area can terminate the lease

Cyprus
hostilities in 1974 divided the island into two de facto
autonomous areas, a Greek Cypriot area controlled by the
internationally recognized Cypriot Government and a Turkish Cypriot
area, separated by a UN buffer zone; March 2003 reunification talks
failed, but Turkish Cypriots later opened their borders to temporary
visits by Greek Cypriots

Czech Republic
Liechtenstein's royal family claims restitution for
1,600 sq km of land in the Czech Republic confiscated in 1918;
individual Sudeten Germans seek restitution for property co