war and
transition to a competitive market-based system; network was only
65% digitalized in 2005
domestic: teledensity remains below the average for neighboring
states; GSM wireless service, available through two providers with
national coverage, is growing very rapidly; best telecommunications
service limited to urban centers
international: country code - 381

Radio broadcast stations:
153 (2001)

Internet country code:
.rs; note - former ccTLD .yu will remain in service until the end
of 2006

Internet hosts:
NA

Internet users:
1.4 million (2006)

Transportation Serbia

Airports:
39 (2006)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 16
over 3,047 m: 2
2,438 to 3,047 m: 4
1,524 to 2,437 m: 4
914 to 1,523 m: 2
under 914 m: 4 (2006)

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 23
1,524 to 2,437 m: 2
914 to 1,523 m: 9
under 914 m: 12 (2006)

Heliports:
4 (2006)

Pipelines:
gas 3,177 km; oil 393 km (2006)

Railways:
total: 4,135 km
standard guage: 4,135 km 1.435-m guage (electrified 1,195 km) (2005)

Roadways:
total: 37,887 km
paved: 23,937 km
unpaved: 13,950 km (2002)

Waterways:
587 km - primarily on Danube and Sava rivers (2005)

Merchant marine:
note: see entry for Montenegro

Military Serbia

Military branches:
Serbian Armed Forces (Vojska Srbije, VS): Serbian Land Forces
(Kopnene Vojska, KoV), Air Force and Air Defense Force
(Vozduhoplostvo i Protivozduhoplovna Odbrana, ViPO), naval force to
be determined (2006)

Military service age and obligation:
peacetime service obligation begins at age 17 and lasts until age
60 for men and 50 for women; under a state of war or impending war,
the obligation can begin at age 16 and be extended beyond 60 (2006)

Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$14.85 million

Transnational Issues Serbia

Disputes - international:
as the final status of the Serbian province of Kosovo approaches
resolution through the six-nation contact group, the several
thousand peacekeepers from the UN Interim Administration Mission in
Kosovo (UNMIK) since 1999, continue to keep the peace between
Kosovar Albanians overwhelmingly supporting Kosovo independence and
the Serb minority in Kosovo and Serbian officials in Belgrade, who
oppose independence for the province; ethnic Albanians in Kosovo
oppose demarcation of the boundary with Macedonia based on the 2000
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