4 to 1,523 m: 1 (2006)
Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 5
914 to 1,523 m: 3
under 914 m: 2 (2006)
Heliports:
9 (2006)
Roadways:
total: 5,000 km
paved: 2,500 km
unpaved: 2,500 km (2005)
Ports and terminals:
Dili
Military East Timor
Military branches:
East Timor Defense Force (Forcas de Defesa de Timor-L'este, FDTL):
Army, Navy (Armada) (2005)
Military service age and obligation:
18 years of age for voluntary military service (2001)
Manpower available for military service:
males age 18-49: 235,198
females age 18-49: 223,069 (2005 est.)
Manpower fit for military service:
males age 18-49: 179,422
females age 18-49: 184,533 (2005 est.)
Manpower reaching military service age annually:
males age 18-49: 12,740
females age 18-49: 12,438 (2005 est.)
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
1,000 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 Pulau Batek/Fatu
Sinai, which prevents delimitation of the northern maritime
boundaries; many refugees who left East Timor in 2003 still reside
in Indonesia and refuse repatriation; Australia and East Timor
agreed in 2005 to defer the disputed portion of the boundary for 50
years and to split hydrocarbon revenues evenly outside the Joint
Petroleum Development Area covered by the 2002 Timor Sea Treaty;
dispute with Australia has hampered creation of a southern maritime
boundary with Indonesia
Refugees and internally displaced persons:
IDPs: 150,000 (2006)
Illicit drugs:
NA
This page was last updated on 8 February, 2007
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@Ecuador
Introduction Ecuador
Background:
What is now Ecuador formed part of the northern Inca Empire until
the Spanish conquest in 1533. Quito became a seat of Spanish
colonial government in 1563 and part of the Viceroyalty of New
Granada in 1717. The territories of the Viceroyalty - New Granad
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